Correct Answers
While providing oral care for a client who is unconscious, the nurse positions the client laterally
and uses a basin to collect secretions. Which intervention is best for the nurse to implement? -
correct answers ✔✔Provide a Yankauer tip for oral suction (oral suction being placed on the
buccal area).
At the patient's room the doctor tells the nurse to trim the toenails of the DM patient's toes.
What will you do? - correct answers ✔✔Advise the doctor about the facility's policy.
Mastectomy incision is healing well but patient refuses to look at the incision site. What will be
your intervention? - correct answers ✔✔It is ok not to look at it, I am available for you when
you are ready for it.
A college student states that his roommate is hearing voices that says "Kill, kill, kill", what
should be the intervention? - correct answers ✔✔Ask the client "are you planning to obey the
voices?"
Which task could the nurse safely delegate to a UAP? - correct answers ✔✔Oral feeding of a
two-year-old child after the application of a hip spica cast.
In monitoring a child with Type 1 diabetes mellitus, the nurse observes that the child is
exhibiting Kussmaul respiration. What additional finding is suspected - correct answers
✔✔fruity odor breath.
The nurse concludes that the client is developing pulmonary edema after observing - correct
answers ✔✔cough with pink frothy sputum.
, a client with hypertension complains of a persistent, dry cough. the PN should tell the client
that this is a common side effect of which daily medication? - correct answers ✔✔Quinapril
The HCP gives a pregnant women a prescription for one prenatal vitamin with iron daily, and
tells her that she needs to increase foods in her diet because her hemoglobin is 8.2 grams/dL.
When a list of iron rich foods is given to the client, She tells the PN that she is vegetarian and
does not eat anything that "bleeds." Which instruction should the PN provide? Select All That
Apply
A. Take two prenatal vitamins with iron daily
B. Increase green leafy vegetables in the diet
C. Oatmeal is a good choice for breakfast
D. Add lentils and black beans to soup
E. Eat red meat just until the anemia is resolved - correct answers ✔✔-B. Increase green leafy
vegetables in the diet
-C. Oatmeal is a good choice for breakfast
-D. Add lentils and black beans to soup
The practical nurse is caring for a client whose urine drug screen is positive for cocaine, Which
behavior is this client likely to exhibit during cocaine withdrawal?
A. Elevated energy level
B. Euphoria
C. High self-esteem
D. Powerful craving for more - correct answers ✔✔D. Powerful craving for more
When the practical nurse (PN) attempts to assist an 18 year old client with a mild mental
disability to ambulate on the first postoperative day after an appendectomy. She becomes angry
and yells at the PN "Get out of here I'll get up when I'm ready" Which response is best for the
PN to make? - correct answers ✔✔I know you feel angry about the pain of the ambulation, but
this is a necessary part of getting well./ returning in 30 minutes