ATI Med Surg Proctored Exam Practice
100% Verified and Correct Questions and
Answers 2025/2026.
1. A nurse is caring for a client who experienced a traumatic head injury
and has an intraventricular catheter (Ventriculostomy) for ICP monitoring.
The nurse should monitor the client for which of the following complications
related to the ventriculostomy?:
a. Headache
b. Infection
c. Aphasia
d. Hypertension
Answer: b. Infection
Rationale Monitor for infection and use strict asepsis to avoid life-threatening
meningitis.
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, 2. A nurse is providing education to a client who is to undergo an EEG the next
day. Which of the following info should the nurse include in the teaching?
a. "Do not wash your hair the morning of the procedure."
b. "Try and stay awake most of the night prior to the procedure."
c. "The procedure will take approximately 15 mins."
d. "You will need to lie flat for 4 hours after the procedure."
Answer: b. "Try and stay awake most of the night prior to the procedure."
Rationale Tell the client to remain awake to provide cranial stress and increase
the possibility of abnormal electrical activity
3. A nurse is caring for a client who is postprocedural following a lumbar
puncture and reports a throbbing headache when sitting upright. Which of the
following actions should the nurse take? SATA.
a. Use the GCS scale to assess the client
b. Assist the client into a supine position
c. Administer an opioid analgesic
d. Encourage the client to increase PO fluid intake
e. Instruct the client to perform coughing and deep breathing
Answer: B, D
4. A nurse is caring for a client who has continuous bladder irrigation follow-
ing a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). Which of the following
findings should the nurse report to the provider?
a Output equal to the instilled irrigate
b. Client reports bladder spasms
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, c. Viscous urinary output with clots
d. Reports of strong urge to urinate
Answer: c. Viscous urinary output with clots
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, Rationale Urine that is bright red with clots is an indication of arterial bleeding.
5. A nurse is monitoring the ECG of a client who has hypocalcemia. Which of
the following findings should the nurse expect?
a. Flattened T waves
b. Prolonged QT intervals
c. Shortened QT intervals
d Widened QRS complexes
Answer: b. Prolonged QT intervals
Rationale Manifestations of hypocalcemia include tingling, numbness, tetany,
seizures, pro- longed QT intervals, and laryngospasm.
6. A nurse is preparing a client who has a brain tumor for a CT scan. Which
of the following factors affects the manner in which the nurse will prepare the
client for the scan?
a. No food or fluids consumed for 4 hours
b. Difficulty recalling recent events
c. Development of hives while eating shrimp
d. Paresthesia in both hands
Answer: c. Development of hives while eating shrimp Shellfish allergy is
contraindication of use of contrast media during a CT scan.
7. A nurse is preparing an in-service program about the stages of acute kidney
injury. Which of the following pieces of info should the nurse include about
prerenal azotemia?
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100% Verified and Correct Questions and
Answers 2025/2026.
1. A nurse is caring for a client who experienced a traumatic head injury
and has an intraventricular catheter (Ventriculostomy) for ICP monitoring.
The nurse should monitor the client for which of the following complications
related to the ventriculostomy?:
a. Headache
b. Infection
c. Aphasia
d. Hypertension
Answer: b. Infection
Rationale Monitor for infection and use strict asepsis to avoid life-threatening
meningitis.
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, 2. A nurse is providing education to a client who is to undergo an EEG the next
day. Which of the following info should the nurse include in the teaching?
a. "Do not wash your hair the morning of the procedure."
b. "Try and stay awake most of the night prior to the procedure."
c. "The procedure will take approximately 15 mins."
d. "You will need to lie flat for 4 hours after the procedure."
Answer: b. "Try and stay awake most of the night prior to the procedure."
Rationale Tell the client to remain awake to provide cranial stress and increase
the possibility of abnormal electrical activity
3. A nurse is caring for a client who is postprocedural following a lumbar
puncture and reports a throbbing headache when sitting upright. Which of the
following actions should the nurse take? SATA.
a. Use the GCS scale to assess the client
b. Assist the client into a supine position
c. Administer an opioid analgesic
d. Encourage the client to increase PO fluid intake
e. Instruct the client to perform coughing and deep breathing
Answer: B, D
4. A nurse is caring for a client who has continuous bladder irrigation follow-
ing a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). Which of the following
findings should the nurse report to the provider?
a Output equal to the instilled irrigate
b. Client reports bladder spasms
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, c. Viscous urinary output with clots
d. Reports of strong urge to urinate
Answer: c. Viscous urinary output with clots
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, Rationale Urine that is bright red with clots is an indication of arterial bleeding.
5. A nurse is monitoring the ECG of a client who has hypocalcemia. Which of
the following findings should the nurse expect?
a. Flattened T waves
b. Prolonged QT intervals
c. Shortened QT intervals
d Widened QRS complexes
Answer: b. Prolonged QT intervals
Rationale Manifestations of hypocalcemia include tingling, numbness, tetany,
seizures, pro- longed QT intervals, and laryngospasm.
6. A nurse is preparing a client who has a brain tumor for a CT scan. Which
of the following factors affects the manner in which the nurse will prepare the
client for the scan?
a. No food or fluids consumed for 4 hours
b. Difficulty recalling recent events
c. Development of hives while eating shrimp
d. Paresthesia in both hands
Answer: c. Development of hives while eating shrimp Shellfish allergy is
contraindication of use of contrast media during a CT scan.
7. A nurse is preparing an in-service program about the stages of acute kidney
injury. Which of the following pieces of info should the nurse include about
prerenal azotemia?
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