ATI VATI UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE
STUDY GUIDE
●● Addison's & Cushings
Answer: Addison's = down down down up down
Cushings= up up up down up
hypo/hypernatremia, hypo/hypertension, blood volume,
hypo/hyperkalemia, hypo/hyperglycemia
●● Better peripheral perfusion?
Answer: EleVate Veins, DAngle Arteries
●● APGAR
Answer: Appearance (all pink, pink and blue, blue (pale)
Pulse (>100, <100, absent)
Grimace (cough, grimace, no response)
Activity (flexed, flaccid, limp)
Respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
●● Airborne precautions
,Answer: My chicken hez tb (measles, chickenpox (varicella) Herpes
zoster/shingles TB
●● Airborne precautions protective equip
Answer: private room, neg pressure with 6-12 air exchanges/hr mask
N95 for TB
●● Droplet precautions
Answer: spiderman! sepsis, scarlet fever, streptococcal pharyngitis,
parvovirus, pneumonia, pertussis,
influenza,
diptheria,
epiglottitis,
rubella,
mumps, meningitis, mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia, adeNovirus
(Private room or cohort mask!)
●● Contact precaution
Answer: MRS WEE
Multidrug resistant organism
Rresiratory infection
Skin infection
Wound infection
,Enteric infection (C diff)
Eye infection (conjunctivitis)
●● Skin infection
Answer: VCHIPS
Varicella zoster
Cutaneous diptheria
Herpes simplez
Impetigo
Peduculosis
Scabies
●● Air or Pulmonary Embolism
Answer: S/S chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, pale/cyanotic, sense of
impending doom. (turn pt to LEFT side and LOWER the head of bed.)
●● Woman in labor (un-reassuring FHR)
Answer: (late decels, decreased variability, fetal bradycardia, etc) Turn
pt on Left side, give O2, stop pitocin, Increase IV fluids!
●● Tube feeding with decreased LOC
Answer: Pt on Right side (promotes emptying of the stomach) Head of
bed elevated (prevent aspiration)
, ●● After lumbar puncture and oil based myelogram
Answer: pt is flat SUPINE (prevent headache and leaking of CSF)
●● Pt with heat stroke
Answer: flat with legs elevated
●● during Continuous Bladder Irrigation (CBI)
Answer: catheter is taped to the thigh. leg must be kept straight.
●● After Myringotomy
Answer: position on the side of AFFECTED ear, allows drainage.
●● After Cateract surgery
Answer: pt sleep on UNAFFECTED side with a night shield for 1-4
weeks
●● after Thyroidectomy
Answer: low or semi-fowler's position, support head, neck and
shoulders.
●● Infant with Spina Bifida
Answer: Prone so that sac does not rupture
AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE
STUDY GUIDE
●● Addison's & Cushings
Answer: Addison's = down down down up down
Cushings= up up up down up
hypo/hypernatremia, hypo/hypertension, blood volume,
hypo/hyperkalemia, hypo/hyperglycemia
●● Better peripheral perfusion?
Answer: EleVate Veins, DAngle Arteries
●● APGAR
Answer: Appearance (all pink, pink and blue, blue (pale)
Pulse (>100, <100, absent)
Grimace (cough, grimace, no response)
Activity (flexed, flaccid, limp)
Respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
●● Airborne precautions
,Answer: My chicken hez tb (measles, chickenpox (varicella) Herpes
zoster/shingles TB
●● Airborne precautions protective equip
Answer: private room, neg pressure with 6-12 air exchanges/hr mask
N95 for TB
●● Droplet precautions
Answer: spiderman! sepsis, scarlet fever, streptococcal pharyngitis,
parvovirus, pneumonia, pertussis,
influenza,
diptheria,
epiglottitis,
rubella,
mumps, meningitis, mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia, adeNovirus
(Private room or cohort mask!)
●● Contact precaution
Answer: MRS WEE
Multidrug resistant organism
Rresiratory infection
Skin infection
Wound infection
,Enteric infection (C diff)
Eye infection (conjunctivitis)
●● Skin infection
Answer: VCHIPS
Varicella zoster
Cutaneous diptheria
Herpes simplez
Impetigo
Peduculosis
Scabies
●● Air or Pulmonary Embolism
Answer: S/S chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, pale/cyanotic, sense of
impending doom. (turn pt to LEFT side and LOWER the head of bed.)
●● Woman in labor (un-reassuring FHR)
Answer: (late decels, decreased variability, fetal bradycardia, etc) Turn
pt on Left side, give O2, stop pitocin, Increase IV fluids!
●● Tube feeding with decreased LOC
Answer: Pt on Right side (promotes emptying of the stomach) Head of
bed elevated (prevent aspiration)
, ●● After lumbar puncture and oil based myelogram
Answer: pt is flat SUPINE (prevent headache and leaking of CSF)
●● Pt with heat stroke
Answer: flat with legs elevated
●● during Continuous Bladder Irrigation (CBI)
Answer: catheter is taped to the thigh. leg must be kept straight.
●● After Myringotomy
Answer: position on the side of AFFECTED ear, allows drainage.
●● After Cateract surgery
Answer: pt sleep on UNAFFECTED side with a night shield for 1-4
weeks
●● after Thyroidectomy
Answer: low or semi-fowler's position, support head, neck and
shoulders.
●● Infant with Spina Bifida
Answer: Prone so that sac does not rupture
