Which of the following areas contains the bulk of the questions on the NCLEX-RN exam?
a. safe, effective care environment c. psychological integrity
b. physiological integrity d. health promotion and maintenance
B
Between 43% and 67% of the questions on the NCLEX-RN exam concern physiological integrity. This section includes subcategories such as basic care and comfort, pharmacological and parenteral therapies, reduction of risk potential, and physiological adaptation.
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To collect the urine specimen, the nurse should instruct the patient to do which of the following? a. Return to bed to obtain the specimen using a straight catheter insertion. b. Use sterile gloves to cleanse his penis and collect the specimen in a sterile cup. c. Ask the patient to void into a cup or urine collection container. d. Cleanse his penis, begin his stream, and then void into a sterile cup.
A person in the community asks the nurse, "People with mental illnesses went to state hospitals in earlier times. Why has that changed?" Select the nurse's accurate response(s). (Select all that apply.)
a. "Science has made significant improvements in drugs for mental illness, so now many persons may live in their communities." b. "There's now a better selection of less restrictive treatment options available in communities to care for people with mental illness." c. "National rates of mental illness have declined significantly. There actually is not a need for state institutions anymore." d. "Most psychiatric institutions were closed because of serious violations of patients' rights and unsafe conditions." e. "Federal legislation and payment for treatment of mental illness has shifted the focus to community rather than institutional settings."
The nurse is working on a busy respiratory unit. In caring for a variety of clients, the nurse must be knowledgeable of diagnostic studies
With which diagnostic studies would the nurse screen the client for an allergy to iodine? Select all that apply. A) Lung scan B) Chest x-ray C) Fluoroscopy D) Pulmonary angiography E) Bronchoscopy F) Pulmonary functions test
The method of charting that provides a continual description of a patient's condition, complaints, problems, assessment findings, activities, treatments,
and nursing care, along with the evaluations of effectiveness for each nursing intervention from admission through discharge, is known as 1. Charting by exception. 2. Focus charting. 3. Narrative charting. 4. SOAPIER (Subjective data, Objective data, Assessment data, Plan, Intervention, Evaluation, Revision) charting.