NCLEX RN UPDATED SET ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔pH less than 7.35 - ✔✔Acidosis
✔✔pH greater than 7.45 - ✔✔Alkalosis
✔✔CO2 opposite of pH - ✔✔Respiratory
✔✔ABC - ✔✔Airway
Breathing
Circulation
✔✔Abduction - ✔✔Movement AWAY from the midline
✔✔Abraded - ✔✔Scraped
✔✔Acetonuria - ✔✔Acetone in the urine
✔✔Adduction - ✔✔Movement TOWARDS the midline
✔✔Expected Outcomes - ✔✔1. What is the expected outcome?
2. What is the best action for the expected outcome?
✔✔Question? - ✔✔1. Read the stem one time.
2. Read answer choices for clues to topic.
3. Reword question using clues from answer choices.
✔✔Answers? - ✔✔1. Read the stem.
, 2. Identify the topic.
3. Read the answer choices.
4. Identify the nursing concept contained in the answer choices.
✔✔Real World - ✔✔1. Don't use real-world experience to answer NCLEX-PN questions.
2. You have the time, the staff, and the equipment.
3. Take care of the client FIRST.
4. The NCLEX-PN exam test the nurse's judgement.
✔✔Maslow - ✔✔1. Recognize that answers are both physical and psychosocial.
2. Eliminate psychosocial answers. (ex. anorexia, depression, bipolar disease,
substance abuse, bulimia, alcohol abuse, and suicide)
3. "Does this make sense?"
4. Apply ABCs.
✔✔Key features of US style communication in nursing - ✔✔- Validate the client's
experience and feelings by responding to the client verbally. Ask questions that relate
directly to what the clients says.
- Direct the client's behavior to promote comfort and well-being. Do not patronize or
reject the client by imposing a value judgement.
- Maintain eye contact with the client, especially during conversation. Lean forward to
face the client. Nod, smile, or frown to demonstrate agreement or disagreement while
listening.
✔✔"This is inappropriate behavior. Please close your robe and return to your room." -
✔✔This statement by the LPN/LVN responds to the client's behavior, sets limits on the
behavior, and directs the client toward more appropriate social behavior in the milieu.
This statement rejects the client's behavior, not the client as a person.
✔✔The LPN/LVN is caring for a client who states, "I just want to die." The LPN/LVN
should examine the client's medical record for which of the following documents? -
✔✔Advance directives
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔pH less than 7.35 - ✔✔Acidosis
✔✔pH greater than 7.45 - ✔✔Alkalosis
✔✔CO2 opposite of pH - ✔✔Respiratory
✔✔ABC - ✔✔Airway
Breathing
Circulation
✔✔Abduction - ✔✔Movement AWAY from the midline
✔✔Abraded - ✔✔Scraped
✔✔Acetonuria - ✔✔Acetone in the urine
✔✔Adduction - ✔✔Movement TOWARDS the midline
✔✔Expected Outcomes - ✔✔1. What is the expected outcome?
2. What is the best action for the expected outcome?
✔✔Question? - ✔✔1. Read the stem one time.
2. Read answer choices for clues to topic.
3. Reword question using clues from answer choices.
✔✔Answers? - ✔✔1. Read the stem.
, 2. Identify the topic.
3. Read the answer choices.
4. Identify the nursing concept contained in the answer choices.
✔✔Real World - ✔✔1. Don't use real-world experience to answer NCLEX-PN questions.
2. You have the time, the staff, and the equipment.
3. Take care of the client FIRST.
4. The NCLEX-PN exam test the nurse's judgement.
✔✔Maslow - ✔✔1. Recognize that answers are both physical and psychosocial.
2. Eliminate psychosocial answers. (ex. anorexia, depression, bipolar disease,
substance abuse, bulimia, alcohol abuse, and suicide)
3. "Does this make sense?"
4. Apply ABCs.
✔✔Key features of US style communication in nursing - ✔✔- Validate the client's
experience and feelings by responding to the client verbally. Ask questions that relate
directly to what the clients says.
- Direct the client's behavior to promote comfort and well-being. Do not patronize or
reject the client by imposing a value judgement.
- Maintain eye contact with the client, especially during conversation. Lean forward to
face the client. Nod, smile, or frown to demonstrate agreement or disagreement while
listening.
✔✔"This is inappropriate behavior. Please close your robe and return to your room." -
✔✔This statement by the LPN/LVN responds to the client's behavior, sets limits on the
behavior, and directs the client toward more appropriate social behavior in the milieu.
This statement rejects the client's behavior, not the client as a person.
✔✔The LPN/LVN is caring for a client who states, "I just want to die." The LPN/LVN
should examine the client's medical record for which of the following documents? -
✔✔Advance directives
