NP1 Exam 1 With 382 Review Questions
A key aspect of teaching fort the patient on anticoagulant therapy includes
which instructions?
A. Monitor for Ana report any signs of bleeding
B. Do not take acetaminophen (Tylenol) for a headache
C. Decrease your dietary intake of foods containing vitamin K
D. Arrange to have blood drawn twice a week to check drug effects - ✔ ✔ A
In planning care and patient teaching for the patient with venous leg ulcers, the
nurse recognizes that the most important intervention in healing and control of
this condition is:
A. Discussing activity guidelines
B. Using moist environment dressings
C. Taking horse chestnut seed extract daily
,D. Applying graduated compression stockings - ✔ ✔ D
The patient history and physical examination provide the nurse with
information to primarily:
A. Diagnose a medical problem
B. Investigate a patient's signs and symptoms
C. Classifying subjective and objective patient data
D. Identify nursing diagnosis and collaborative problems - ✔ ✔ D
The nurse would place information about the patient's concern that his illness is
threatening his job security in which functional health pattern?
A. Role-relationship
B. Cognitive-perceptual
C. Coping-stress tolerance
D. Health perception-health management - ✔ ✔ A
,The nurse is preparing to examine a patient's abdomen. Identify the proper
order of the steps in the assessment of the abdomen, using the numbers 1-4,
with 1 = the first technique and 4 = the last technique:
Inspection ____
Palpation ____
Percussion ____
Auscultation _____ - ✔ ✔ 1, 4, 3, 2
Which situation would require the nurse to obtain a focused assessment?
(Select all that apply)
A. A patient denies a current health problem
B. A patient reports a new symptom during rounds
C. A previously identified problem needs reassessment
D. An emergency problem is identified during physical examination - ✔ ✔ B,
C
, The nurses on an acute care medical floor notice an increase in pressure ulcer
formation in their patients. A nurse consultant decides to compare two types of
treatment. The first is the procedure currently used to assess for pressure ulcer
risk. The second uses a new assessment instrument to identify at-risk patients.
Given this information, the nurse consultant exemplifies which career?
a. clinical nurse specialist
b. nurse administrator
c. nurse educator
d. nurse researcher - ✔ ✔ D
Nurses in an acute care hospital are attending a unit based education program
to learn how to use a new pressure-relieving device for patients at risk for
pressure ulcers. This is which type of education?
a. continuing education
b. graduate education
A key aspect of teaching fort the patient on anticoagulant therapy includes
which instructions?
A. Monitor for Ana report any signs of bleeding
B. Do not take acetaminophen (Tylenol) for a headache
C. Decrease your dietary intake of foods containing vitamin K
D. Arrange to have blood drawn twice a week to check drug effects - ✔ ✔ A
In planning care and patient teaching for the patient with venous leg ulcers, the
nurse recognizes that the most important intervention in healing and control of
this condition is:
A. Discussing activity guidelines
B. Using moist environment dressings
C. Taking horse chestnut seed extract daily
,D. Applying graduated compression stockings - ✔ ✔ D
The patient history and physical examination provide the nurse with
information to primarily:
A. Diagnose a medical problem
B. Investigate a patient's signs and symptoms
C. Classifying subjective and objective patient data
D. Identify nursing diagnosis and collaborative problems - ✔ ✔ D
The nurse would place information about the patient's concern that his illness is
threatening his job security in which functional health pattern?
A. Role-relationship
B. Cognitive-perceptual
C. Coping-stress tolerance
D. Health perception-health management - ✔ ✔ A
,The nurse is preparing to examine a patient's abdomen. Identify the proper
order of the steps in the assessment of the abdomen, using the numbers 1-4,
with 1 = the first technique and 4 = the last technique:
Inspection ____
Palpation ____
Percussion ____
Auscultation _____ - ✔ ✔ 1, 4, 3, 2
Which situation would require the nurse to obtain a focused assessment?
(Select all that apply)
A. A patient denies a current health problem
B. A patient reports a new symptom during rounds
C. A previously identified problem needs reassessment
D. An emergency problem is identified during physical examination - ✔ ✔ B,
C
, The nurses on an acute care medical floor notice an increase in pressure ulcer
formation in their patients. A nurse consultant decides to compare two types of
treatment. The first is the procedure currently used to assess for pressure ulcer
risk. The second uses a new assessment instrument to identify at-risk patients.
Given this information, the nurse consultant exemplifies which career?
a. clinical nurse specialist
b. nurse administrator
c. nurse educator
d. nurse researcher - ✔ ✔ D
Nurses in an acute care hospital are attending a unit based education program
to learn how to use a new pressure-relieving device for patients at risk for
pressure ulcers. This is which type of education?
a. continuing education
b. graduate education
