MCCN 205 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Preventing UTIs - ✔✔Void frequent, increase fluid intake, cranberry juice, showers
instead of baths, wipe front to back, urinate after intercourse, avoid perfumed hygiene
products, cotton underwear
✔✔bedpan - ✔✔a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and
urination
✔✔bedside commode - ✔✔a device used for elimination when a person is able to get
out of bed, but unable to walk to the bathroom; it consists of a chair-like frame with a
toilet seat and a removable collection bucket
✔✔indwelling catheter - ✔✔one that remains inside the body for a prolonged time
✔✔wound care - ✔✔Sterile, room temp normal saline 3x day
sterile dressing
paper tape
diet of 2400 plus calories a day to promote healing
✔✔pressure ulcer - ✔✔any lesion caused by unrelieved pressure that results in damage
to underlying tissue
✔✔pressure ulcer stages - ✔✔Stage 1: non-blanchable redness
Stage 2: partial thickness loss
Stage 3: full thickness loss, w/o undermining, see fat
Stage 4: 3+ undermining, see tendon, muscle
✔✔Preventing pressure ulcers - ✔✔* providing nutrition
* maintaining skin hygiene
* avoiding skin trauma
* providing supportive devices
*assessment
✔✔types of wound dressings - ✔✔Telfa
Gauze dressings
Transparent dressings
✔✔telfa dressing - ✔✔sterile nonadherent dressing, often applied on fresh wounds or
incisions
✔✔Types of wound drainage - ✔✔serous, purulent, serosanguineous, sanguineous
, ✔✔serous drainage - ✔✔clear, watery plasma
✔✔purulent drainage - ✔✔thick green, yellow, or brown drainage
✔✔serosanguineous drainage - ✔✔mixture of serum and red blood cells
✔✔sanguineous drainage - ✔✔bloody drainage
✔✔Types of wound healing - ✔✔primary intention
secondary intention
tertiary intention
✔✔Primary wound healing - ✔✔sutures, minimal tissue loss; edges well approximated
✔✔Secondary wound healing - ✔✔wound heals on own, extensive tissue damage, not
approximated or infected
✔✔Tertiary wound healing - ✔✔initially healed by secondary and then primary once
edges are approximated
✔✔bowel elimination - ✔✔the physical process of releasing or emptying the colon or
large intestine of solid waste, called stool or feces
✔✔Bowel elimination problems - ✔✔constipation, impaction, diarrhea, incontinence,
flatulence, hemorrhoids
✔✔diarrhea interventions - ✔✔clean and skin care
hydration
gut flora
fluid and electrolyte replacement
antidiarrheal
✔✔fecal incontinence - ✔✔involuntary or inappropriate passing of stool or flatus
✔✔constipation - ✔✔Hard, slow stools that are difficult to eliminate; often a result of too
little fiber in the diet
✔✔constipation treatment - ✔✔Exercise, high fiber diet, drink more fluids, use of
laxatives
✔✔colostomy bag - ✔✔A container for the collection of feces, attached to an abdominal
opening following a surgical procedure on the bowel
WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Preventing UTIs - ✔✔Void frequent, increase fluid intake, cranberry juice, showers
instead of baths, wipe front to back, urinate after intercourse, avoid perfumed hygiene
products, cotton underwear
✔✔bedpan - ✔✔a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and
urination
✔✔bedside commode - ✔✔a device used for elimination when a person is able to get
out of bed, but unable to walk to the bathroom; it consists of a chair-like frame with a
toilet seat and a removable collection bucket
✔✔indwelling catheter - ✔✔one that remains inside the body for a prolonged time
✔✔wound care - ✔✔Sterile, room temp normal saline 3x day
sterile dressing
paper tape
diet of 2400 plus calories a day to promote healing
✔✔pressure ulcer - ✔✔any lesion caused by unrelieved pressure that results in damage
to underlying tissue
✔✔pressure ulcer stages - ✔✔Stage 1: non-blanchable redness
Stage 2: partial thickness loss
Stage 3: full thickness loss, w/o undermining, see fat
Stage 4: 3+ undermining, see tendon, muscle
✔✔Preventing pressure ulcers - ✔✔* providing nutrition
* maintaining skin hygiene
* avoiding skin trauma
* providing supportive devices
*assessment
✔✔types of wound dressings - ✔✔Telfa
Gauze dressings
Transparent dressings
✔✔telfa dressing - ✔✔sterile nonadherent dressing, often applied on fresh wounds or
incisions
✔✔Types of wound drainage - ✔✔serous, purulent, serosanguineous, sanguineous
, ✔✔serous drainage - ✔✔clear, watery plasma
✔✔purulent drainage - ✔✔thick green, yellow, or brown drainage
✔✔serosanguineous drainage - ✔✔mixture of serum and red blood cells
✔✔sanguineous drainage - ✔✔bloody drainage
✔✔Types of wound healing - ✔✔primary intention
secondary intention
tertiary intention
✔✔Primary wound healing - ✔✔sutures, minimal tissue loss; edges well approximated
✔✔Secondary wound healing - ✔✔wound heals on own, extensive tissue damage, not
approximated or infected
✔✔Tertiary wound healing - ✔✔initially healed by secondary and then primary once
edges are approximated
✔✔bowel elimination - ✔✔the physical process of releasing or emptying the colon or
large intestine of solid waste, called stool or feces
✔✔Bowel elimination problems - ✔✔constipation, impaction, diarrhea, incontinence,
flatulence, hemorrhoids
✔✔diarrhea interventions - ✔✔clean and skin care
hydration
gut flora
fluid and electrolyte replacement
antidiarrheal
✔✔fecal incontinence - ✔✔involuntary or inappropriate passing of stool or flatus
✔✔constipation - ✔✔Hard, slow stools that are difficult to eliminate; often a result of too
little fiber in the diet
✔✔constipation treatment - ✔✔Exercise, high fiber diet, drink more fluids, use of
laxatives
✔✔colostomy bag - ✔✔A container for the collection of feces, attached to an abdominal
opening following a surgical procedure on the bowel
