Taking Strategies for NCLEX-RN Top Ten Test Use Guidelines for Prioritizing When a question requires prioritization, all options may be correct and you need todetermine the correct order of action • Best • Essential • First • Highest priority • Immediate • Vital • Most important • Next • Primary Guidelines for Prioritizing! 1. ABCs (airway, breathing, and circulation) 2. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory 3. Steps of the...

The three components of the Intervention Wheel are: A) Communities, systems, and individuals/families. B) Interventions, color wedges, and levels of practice. C) Population base, levels of practice, and public health interventions. D) Populations at risk, populations of interest, and levels of practice. Public health nursing practice is guided by the community's priorities as identified by community: A) Assessment. B) Diagnosis. C) Interventions. D) Planning.

NCLEX Practice Exam 3 (40 Items) A patient is admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism. A nurse checking the patient’s lab results would expect which of the following changes in laboratory findings? Low serum parathyroid hormone (PTH). Low urine calcium. A patient with Addison’s disease asks a nurse for nutrition and diet advice. Which of the following diet modifications is NOT recommended? A diet with adequate caloric intake. ...

OB: Labor and Birth Complications NCLEX In planning for home care of a woman with preterm labor, which concern must the nurse address? a. Nursing assessments will be different from those done in t he hospital setting. b. Restricted activity and medications will be necessary to prevent recurrence of preterm labor. c. Prolonged bed rest may cause negative physiologic effects. d. Home health care providers will be necessary. - C Prolonged bed rest may cause adverse effects such as weight loss, loss...

NCLEX Questions-Ethical and Legal Issues 1. The nurse hears a client calling out for help, hurries down the hallway to the client's room, and finds the client lying on the floor. The nurse performs an assessment, assists the client back to bed, notifies the health care provider of the incident, and completes an incident report. Which statement should the nurse document on the incident report? a. The client fell out of bed b. The client climbed over the side rails c. The client was found lying o...

After a hypophysectomy for acromegaly, what should be the priority of postoperative nursing care? A. Frequent monitoring of serum and urine osmolarity B. Parenteral administration of a growth hormone receptor antagonist C. Keeping the patient in a recumbent position for 2 days D. Patient teaching relate to lifelong ACTH and TSH hormone replacement A. Frequent monitoring of serum and urine osmolarity A possible postoperative complication after hypophysectomy is transient diabetes insipidus ...

A patient suspected of having acromegaly has an elevated plasma growth hormone level. In acromegaly, the nurse would also expect the patient's diagnostic results to include a. hyperinsulinemia b. a plasma glucose of less than 70 c. decreased growth hormone levels with an oral glucose challenge test d. a serum somatomedin C (insulin-like growth-factor) of more than 300 d. a serum somatomedin C (Insulin-like-growth-factor) of more than 300 (rationale- a normal response to growth hormone se...

NCSBN-NCLEX Question Bank-Latest Reviewed for 2021-2022What document should be in guiding the care of this client? A) Client Self Determination Act B) Physician's treatment orders C) Advance Directives. D) Clinical Pathway protocolsYou are the of a health care team that consists of one licensed practical/vocational nurse, one nursing assistant , a nursing student and yourself. To whom is it appropriate to assign complete care for A) Yourself B) The nursing student C) The licensed vocational nur...

NCLEX REVIEW UWORLD • Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia that has not responded to standard, more traditional treatment. Clozapine is associated with a risk for agranulocytosis and is therefore used only in clients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia. must have their WBC and ANC monitored regularly throughout the course of therapy (initially once every week). the health care provider (HCP) immediately if fever or a sore throat develops, as this m...