Saunder's Comprehensive NCLEX
Review Practice Questions & Answers
2025
Which teaching method is most effective when providing
instruction to members of special populations?
1. Teach-back
2. video instruction
3. written materials
4. verbal explanation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1.
Teach-back
Rationale: When providing education to members of
special populations, return explanation and
demonstration (teach-back) of are particular importance
to ensure safety and mutual understanding. This method
is the most reliable in confirming the client understands
the instructions.
Which health concerns should the nurse be aware of as
risk factors when caring for clients of African American
descent? Select all that apply:
1. cancer
2. obesity
3. hypertension
4. heart disease
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Review Practice Questions & Answers
2025
5. hypothyroidism
6. diabetes mellitus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1, 2, 3,
4, 6
Rationale: obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, heart
disease, asthma, and cancer are prevalent among African
Americans.
The nurse is planning care for a client of Native Hawaiian
descent who recently had a baby. The nurse develops a
teaching plan and includes info about which measure
that's related to a newborn complication within this ethnic
group?
1. safe sleeping
2. car seat safety
3. breast-feeding
4. baby-proofing - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Safe
sleeping
Rationale: The native Hawaiian population has a
disproportionately higher rate of infant mortality
compared with other ethnic groups. Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS) is a major cause of infant mortality. Safe
,Saunder's Comprehensive NCLEX
Review Practice Questions & Answers
2025
sleeping is an important measure to prevent this newborn
complication.
The nurse is planning care for an assigned client. The
nurse should include info in the plan of care about the
prevention of HIV for which individuals specifically at risk?
1. lesbian persons
2. men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM)
3. women-who-have-sex-with-women (WSW)
4. Female-To-Male (FTM) transgender persons - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔2. MSM
Rationale: MSM (men who have sex with men) are at a
higher risk for HIV and AIDS.
Which therapeutic communication technique is most
helpful when working with transgender persons?
1. using open-ended questions
2. using their first name to address them
3. using pronouns associated with birth sex
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Review Practice Questions & Answers
2025
4. anticipating the client's needs and making suggestions
- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Using open-ended
questions
Rationale: The use of open-ended questions is the most
helpful in communicating with transgender persons
because it assists in refraining from judgment and allows
the client the opportunity to express their thoughts and
feelings.
Which special population should be targeted for breast
cancer screening by way of mammography? Select all
that apply:
1. male-to-female (MTF)
2. female-to-male (FTM)
3. men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM)
4. women-who-have-sex-with-men (WSM)
5. women-who-have-sex-with-women (WSW) - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔1, 2, 4, 5
Rationale: Transgender persons who have undergone
sexual reassignment surgery should have the respective
Review Practice Questions & Answers
2025
Which teaching method is most effective when providing
instruction to members of special populations?
1. Teach-back
2. video instruction
3. written materials
4. verbal explanation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1.
Teach-back
Rationale: When providing education to members of
special populations, return explanation and
demonstration (teach-back) of are particular importance
to ensure safety and mutual understanding. This method
is the most reliable in confirming the client understands
the instructions.
Which health concerns should the nurse be aware of as
risk factors when caring for clients of African American
descent? Select all that apply:
1. cancer
2. obesity
3. hypertension
4. heart disease
,Saunder's Comprehensive NCLEX
Review Practice Questions & Answers
2025
5. hypothyroidism
6. diabetes mellitus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1, 2, 3,
4, 6
Rationale: obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, heart
disease, asthma, and cancer are prevalent among African
Americans.
The nurse is planning care for a client of Native Hawaiian
descent who recently had a baby. The nurse develops a
teaching plan and includes info about which measure
that's related to a newborn complication within this ethnic
group?
1. safe sleeping
2. car seat safety
3. breast-feeding
4. baby-proofing - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Safe
sleeping
Rationale: The native Hawaiian population has a
disproportionately higher rate of infant mortality
compared with other ethnic groups. Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS) is a major cause of infant mortality. Safe
,Saunder's Comprehensive NCLEX
Review Practice Questions & Answers
2025
sleeping is an important measure to prevent this newborn
complication.
The nurse is planning care for an assigned client. The
nurse should include info in the plan of care about the
prevention of HIV for which individuals specifically at risk?
1. lesbian persons
2. men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM)
3. women-who-have-sex-with-women (WSW)
4. Female-To-Male (FTM) transgender persons - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔2. MSM
Rationale: MSM (men who have sex with men) are at a
higher risk for HIV and AIDS.
Which therapeutic communication technique is most
helpful when working with transgender persons?
1. using open-ended questions
2. using their first name to address them
3. using pronouns associated with birth sex
, Saunder's Comprehensive NCLEX
Review Practice Questions & Answers
2025
4. anticipating the client's needs and making suggestions
- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Using open-ended
questions
Rationale: The use of open-ended questions is the most
helpful in communicating with transgender persons
because it assists in refraining from judgment and allows
the client the opportunity to express their thoughts and
feelings.
Which special population should be targeted for breast
cancer screening by way of mammography? Select all
that apply:
1. male-to-female (MTF)
2. female-to-male (FTM)
3. men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM)
4. women-who-have-sex-with-men (WSM)
5. women-who-have-sex-with-women (WSW) - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔1, 2, 4, 5
Rationale: Transgender persons who have undergone
sexual reassignment surgery should have the respective
