Accurate And Verified Questions That Reflect The
Actual Exam Format, Covering All Key Areas Of
Practical Nursing. Topics Include Medical-Surgical
Nursing, Pharmacology, Maternal-Newborn Care,
Pediatrics, Mental Health and Leadership.
A licensed practical nurse on a medical surgical unit is working with an
RN and an As sistive personnel. Which of the following assignments
should the LPN expect to receive? - -<<answer>>--Administering an NG
tube feeding to a client who had a stroke
A nurse is caring for a client who has schizophrenia and is experiencing
auditory hallucinations. Which of the following actions should the nurse
take? - -<<answer>>--Offer the client headphones to listen to music.
A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client about taking warfarin to
treat atrial fibrillation. Which of the following statements by the client
indicates an understanding of the teaching? - -<<answer>>--If I forget to
take a dose, I can take it later on the same day."
,A nurse is working with an interpreter to explain a diagnostic procedure
to a client wh o doesn't speak the same language as the nurse. Which of
the following actions should the nurse take? - -<<answer>>--Ensure the
interpreter is culturally compatible with the client.
A nurse is reinforcing discharge teaching with a client who has
dependent personality disorder. Which of the following instructions
should the nurse include in the dischargeteaching? - -<<answer>>--
Demonstrate assertiveness.
A nurse is contributing to the discharge plan for a client who had a knee
arthroplasty. Which of the following actions should the nurse identify as
the priority? - -<<answer>>--Check the client's mobility
A nurse in a long-
term care facility is assisting with the admission of a client who requires
oropharyngeal suctioning. Which of the following supplies does the
nurse need to perform this task? - -<<answer>>--Yankauer catheter|
A nurse is collecting data from a client who is 24 hr post op from an
open colon resection, has a clamped NG tube, and is resuming a clean
liquid diet. Which of the following findings should the nurse report to
the provider? - -<<answer>>--Client reports vomiting green-tinged fluid.
,A nurse is caring for a client who took an overdose of acetaminophen.
Which of the following medications should the nurse plan to administer
to the client? - -<<answer>>--acetylcysteine
A nurse delegates the collection of a sputum specimen from a client
who has tu berculosis to an assistive personnel. At which of the
following times should the nurse instruct the AP to collect the
specimen? - -<<answer>>--As soon as the client wakes up.
A nurse in a long term care facility is using validation therapy with a
client wh o has dementia. The client becomes agitated and asks why his
wife who died several years ago has not visited him.
Which of the following responses should the nurse make? - -<<answer>>--
You must miss your wife. Let's take a walk and you can tell me about
her.
A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client who has a prescription for
nitrogly cerin sublingual tablets Which of the following instructions
should the nurse include in the teaching? - -<<answer>>--take up to three
tablets during a single angina episode
A Nurse is caring for a client who is post op following an open reduction
with internal fixation of the ankle. The client report pain and the nurse
notes that the afollow ingected extremity is cool, pale, and has a weak
pulse. The nurse calls the surgical assistant who responds "it has always
, been like that" Which of the following actions shoul d the nurse take
first? - -<<answer>>--notify the nursing supervisor
A nurse is collecting data from a client who has Tourette syndrome. The
client reports taking haloperidol 0.5 mL orally 3 times a day at home.
Which of the following components of the prescription should the
nurse question? - -<<answer>>--dosage
A nurse is caring for a female client who has an indwelling urinary
catheter. which of the following actions should the nurse take? - -
<<answer>>--Wipe the drainage port with an antiseptic wipe after
emptying urine from bag.
A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a newborn's parentsabout umbilical
cord c ard. Which of the following statements by aparent indicates an
understanding of the in struction? - -<<answer>>--"I will give our baby
sponge baths until the cord falls off
A nurse who is facilitating a support group notices that one client in the
group is extremely talkative, to the point where others in the group
have difficulty sharing their own ideas. Which of the following strategies
should the nurse use to facilitate the group process with this client? - -
<<answer>>--Speak privately to the client about this behavior.