NCLEX Pharm: Mark Klimek-Exam
Test Questions All Answered Correctly
2026.
Never hold the hormone for what patient? - Answer patient who is NPO with mydexema
Addison's disease easy way to remember - Answer Add a Sone (sone = steroid)
Best default order for click and drag order questions? - Answer Hold ..... med
Assess ..... what med does
Prepare ...... the correction
Call ..... or notify
Rarely if ever answer ... - Answer call Doctor, NCLEX wants you to think critically
INR lab values - Answer 2-3, critical value if off, potential for patient to bleed. Use default
order for order ?'s (hold all coumadin, assess for bleeding, prepare Vit K (antidote for
Coumadin), Call or notify
Potassium lab values - Answer 3.5-5.3 If low it is a critical lab to worry about assess the heart
and then prepare to give K
if high, hold all K, assess heart (EKG), give D5W and reg insulin, call
if really high, hold, assess, prepare, call STAT Get someone else involved! Dangerous!!
If question says there is pitocin running and there are complications - Answer stop pit first
then LIONpit
Pain meds in labor - Answer know your peaks for IV, IM, PO, Subling. If baby is likely to be
born when the pain med is peaking don't give! Why? Respiratory depression in baby
OB medications tocolytics - Answer stop contractions, Brethine causes maternal tachycardia,
Nifedipine (dipine - CCB) causes Hypotension and headache
OB medications oxytocics - Answer makes labor more intense, Pitocin, Methergine, Cervidil
, OB medications Fetal/Neonatal Lung meds - Answer Betamethasone, speeds the
development of the baby's lungs, given to Mom before baby is born, given IM, will increase the
blood sugar of Mom
Survanta (surfactant) - Answer given to baby after baby is born given trastracheal through the
airway develops lungs
Med hints for IM injections - Answer Look for 1's in both parts (the 1 looks like an I), guage
and length, 21 g, 1 inch means IM
Med hints for SQ injections - Answer look for 5's in both parts (the 5 looks like an S), guage
and length, 25 g, 5/8 inch means SQ
Drawing up Insulin rules - Answer R then N, Draw up R then N, NRRN the whole process
Pressurizing Insulin rule - Answer put air into N then R , NRRN the whole process
If 70/30 insulin it is - Answer 70% N and 30% R, may have to make your own on boards, no
70/30 on the floor
Heparin is given IV or SQ NOT PO, info re: Heparin - Answer works immediately, labs Ptt or
any clotting or bleeding time, antidote: protamine sulfate, course: 21 days, pregnancy: YES
(Class C pregnancy drug, use caution)
Coumadin is given PO, info re: Coumadin - Answer takes days to work, labs ONLY PT-INR,
antidote: Vit K (think Koumadin), course: forever, prengancy: NO (never use)
If a diuretic ends in the letter X it is a potassium - Answer wasting drug plus Diurel
Baclofen/ Flexoril - Answer muscle relaxant, think on your back loafin'! makes a patient
drowsy, weak muscles, don't drink, don't drive, don't care of kids under 12
Piaget's stage Sensorimotor age 0-2, totally
When can a child give themselves their own insulin shot? - Answer 7
What 2 parts are always irrelevant in a prioritization question? - Answer age and gender
(NCLEX is testing discrimination against agism), age only important for peds
Test Questions All Answered Correctly
2026.
Never hold the hormone for what patient? - Answer patient who is NPO with mydexema
Addison's disease easy way to remember - Answer Add a Sone (sone = steroid)
Best default order for click and drag order questions? - Answer Hold ..... med
Assess ..... what med does
Prepare ...... the correction
Call ..... or notify
Rarely if ever answer ... - Answer call Doctor, NCLEX wants you to think critically
INR lab values - Answer 2-3, critical value if off, potential for patient to bleed. Use default
order for order ?'s (hold all coumadin, assess for bleeding, prepare Vit K (antidote for
Coumadin), Call or notify
Potassium lab values - Answer 3.5-5.3 If low it is a critical lab to worry about assess the heart
and then prepare to give K
if high, hold all K, assess heart (EKG), give D5W and reg insulin, call
if really high, hold, assess, prepare, call STAT Get someone else involved! Dangerous!!
If question says there is pitocin running and there are complications - Answer stop pit first
then LIONpit
Pain meds in labor - Answer know your peaks for IV, IM, PO, Subling. If baby is likely to be
born when the pain med is peaking don't give! Why? Respiratory depression in baby
OB medications tocolytics - Answer stop contractions, Brethine causes maternal tachycardia,
Nifedipine (dipine - CCB) causes Hypotension and headache
OB medications oxytocics - Answer makes labor more intense, Pitocin, Methergine, Cervidil
, OB medications Fetal/Neonatal Lung meds - Answer Betamethasone, speeds the
development of the baby's lungs, given to Mom before baby is born, given IM, will increase the
blood sugar of Mom
Survanta (surfactant) - Answer given to baby after baby is born given trastracheal through the
airway develops lungs
Med hints for IM injections - Answer Look for 1's in both parts (the 1 looks like an I), guage
and length, 21 g, 1 inch means IM
Med hints for SQ injections - Answer look for 5's in both parts (the 5 looks like an S), guage
and length, 25 g, 5/8 inch means SQ
Drawing up Insulin rules - Answer R then N, Draw up R then N, NRRN the whole process
Pressurizing Insulin rule - Answer put air into N then R , NRRN the whole process
If 70/30 insulin it is - Answer 70% N and 30% R, may have to make your own on boards, no
70/30 on the floor
Heparin is given IV or SQ NOT PO, info re: Heparin - Answer works immediately, labs Ptt or
any clotting or bleeding time, antidote: protamine sulfate, course: 21 days, pregnancy: YES
(Class C pregnancy drug, use caution)
Coumadin is given PO, info re: Coumadin - Answer takes days to work, labs ONLY PT-INR,
antidote: Vit K (think Koumadin), course: forever, prengancy: NO (never use)
If a diuretic ends in the letter X it is a potassium - Answer wasting drug plus Diurel
Baclofen/ Flexoril - Answer muscle relaxant, think on your back loafin'! makes a patient
drowsy, weak muscles, don't drink, don't drive, don't care of kids under 12
Piaget's stage Sensorimotor age 0-2, totally
When can a child give themselves their own insulin shot? - Answer 7
What 2 parts are always irrelevant in a prioritization question? - Answer age and gender
(NCLEX is testing discrimination against agism), age only important for peds
