ATI Fundamentals Final Exam Study Guide 2022/2023 Graded A+

ATI Fundamentals Final Exam Study Guide 2022/2023 Graded A+ A nurse is caring for a client who has a new RX for antihypertensive medication. Prior to administering the medication, the nurse uses an electronic database to gather information about the medication and the effects it might have on this client. Which of the following components of critical thinking is the nurse using when he reviews the medication information? A) Knowledge B) Experience C) Intuition D) Competence - Answer A) Knowledge A client who has an indwelling catheter reports a need to urinate. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? A) Check to see whether the catheter is patent. B) Reassure the client that it is not possible for her to urinate. C) Recatheterize the bladder with a larger-gauge catheter. D) Collect a urine specimen for analysis - Answer A) Check to see whether the catheter is patent. A client who has an indwelling catheter reports a need to urinate. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? A) Discard the first voiding B) Keep the urine in a singe container at room temp C) Ask the client to urinate and pour the urine into a specimen container D) Ask the client to urinate into the toilet, stop midstream, and finish urinating into the specimen container. - Answer A) Discard the first voiding A newly licensed nurse is reporting to the charge nurse about the care she gave to a client. She states, "The client said his leg pain was back, so I checked his medical record, and he last received his pain med 6 hr ago. The prescription reads every 4 hours PRN for pain, so I decided he needs it. I asked the unit nurse to observe me preparing and administering it. I checked with the client 40 minutes later, and he said his pain is going away." The charge nurse should inform the newly licensed nurse that she left out which of the following steps of the nursing process? A. Assessment B. Planning C. Intervention D. Evaluation - Answer A. Assessment A nurse is contributing to the plan of care for a client who is being admitted to the facility with asuspected diagnosis of pertussis. Which of the following should the nurse include in the plan of care? (SATA)