ATI Comprehensive Predictor Study Guide 2026 – Questions & Answers for Nursing Exam Prep

ATI Comprehensive Predictor-
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Study Guide 2026 Questions and Answers
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Do not delegate - correct answer ✔ ✔
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What you can EAT E-evaluate A-assess T-teach
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Addison's & Cushings - correct answer ✔ ✔
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Addison's = down down down up down ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./



Cushings= up up up down up ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./



hypo/hypernatremia, hypo/hypertension, blood volume, hypo/h ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./


yperkalemia, hypo/hyperglycemia ,./




Better peripheral perfusion? - correct answer ✔ ✔
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EleVate Veins, DAngle Arteries ,./ ,./ ,./




APGAR - correct answer ✔ ✔ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./


Appearance (all pink, pink and blue, blue (pale) ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./



Pulse (>100, <100, absent)
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Grimace (cough, grimace, no response)
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Activity (flexed, flaccid, limp) ,./ ,./ ,./

,Respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
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Airborne precautions - correct answer ✔ ✔
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My chicken hez tb (measles, chickenpox (varicella) Herpes z
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oster/shingles TB ,./




Airborne precautions protective equip - correct answer ✔ ✔
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private room, neg pressure with 6-
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12 air exchanges/hr mask N95 for TB
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Droplet precautions - correct answer ✔ ✔
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spiderman! sepsis, scarlet fever, streptococcal pharyngitis, par
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vovirus, pneumonia, pertussis,
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influenza,
diptheria,
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epiglottitis,
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rubella,
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mumps, meningitis, mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia, ade
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Novirus (Private room or cohort mask!)
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Contact precaution - correct answer ✔ ✔ MRS WEE
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,Multidrug resistant organism ,./ ,./



Rresiratory infection ,./



Skin infection
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Wound infection ,./



Enteric infection (C diff),./ ,./ ,./



Eye infection (conjunctivitis)
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Skin infection - correct answer ✔ ✔ VCHIPS
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Varicella zoster ,./



Cutaneous diptheria ,./



Herpes simplez ,./



Impetigo
Peduculosis
Scabies


Air or Pulmonary Embolism - correct answer ✔ ✔
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S/S chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, pale/cyanotic, sense of i
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mpending doom. (turn pt to LEFT side and LOWER the head o
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f bed.)
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, Woman in labor (un-reassuring FHR) - correct answer ✔ ✔
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(late decels, decreased variability, fetal bradycardia, etc) Turn
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pt on Left side, give O2, stop pitocin, Increase IV fluids!
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Tube feeding with decreased LOC - correct answer ✔ ✔
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Pt on Right side (promotes emptying of the stomach) Head of
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bed elevated (prevent aspiration)
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After lumbar puncture and oil based myelogram -
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correct answer ✔ ✔
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pt is flat SUPINE (prevent headache and leaking of CSF)
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Pt with heat stroke - correct answer ✔ ✔
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flat with legs elevated
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during Continuous Bladder Irrigation (CBI) - correct answer ✔
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✔ catheter is taped to the thigh. leg must be kept straight. ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./ ,./




After Myringotomy - correct answer ✔ ✔
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position on the side of AFFECTED ear, allows drainage.
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