1. What instruction should the nurse include in the discharge teaching plan of a client who had a cataract extraction today?
a. Sexual activities may be resumed upon return home
b. Light housekeeping is permitted but avoid heavy lifting
c. Use a metal eye shield on operative eye during the day
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1. What instruction should the nurse include in the discharge teaching
plan of a client who had a cataract extraction today?
a. Sexual activities may be resumed upon return home
b. Light housekeeping is permitted but avoid heavy lifting
c. Use a metal eye shield on operative eye during the day
d. Administer eye ointment before applying eye drops
2. A male adult comes to the urgent care clinic 5 days after being diagnose
with influenza. He is short of breath, febrile, and coughing green colored
sputum. Which intervention should the nurse implement first?
a. Obtain a sputum sample for culture
b. Check his oxygen saturation level
c. Administer an oral antipyretic
d. Auscultate bilateral lung sound
3. An elder male client tells the nurse that he is loosing sleep because he
has to get up several times at night to go to the bathroom that he has
trouble starting his urinary stream and that he does not feel like his
bladder is ever completely empty. Which intervention should the nurse
implement?
a. collect a urine specimen for culture analysis
b. obtain a fingerstick blood glucose level
c. palpate the bladder above the symphysis pubis
d. review the client fluid intake
4. An adult client is admitted with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and a urinary
tract infection (UTI) Prescriptions for intravenous antibiotics and insulin
infusion are initiated. Which serum laboratory value warrants the most
immediate intervention by the nurse?
a. blood ph of 7.30
b. glucose of 350 mg /dl
c. white blood cell count of 15000mm
d. potassium of 2.5 meq/l
5. A client with sickle cell anemia develops a fever during the last hour of
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administration of a unit of packed red blood cell. When notifying the
healthcare provider what information should the nurse provide first
using the SBAR communication process?
a. explain specific reason for urgent notification
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b. preface the report by stating the clients name and
admitting diagnosis
c. communicate the pre-transfusion temperatures
d. optain prn prescription for acetaminophen for fever 101f
6. An adult male client is admitted for pneumocystis carinil pneumonia
(PCP) secondary to aids. While hospitalize he receives IV pentamidine
isethionate therapy. In preparing this client for discharge what
important aspect regarding his medication therapy should the nurse
explain?
a. AZT therapy must be stopped when IV aerosol pentamine is
being used.
b. IV pentamine will be given until oral pentamine can be tolerated
c. It will be necessary to continue prophylactic doses of IV or
aerosol pentamine every month
d. Iv pentamine may offer protection to others aids related
conditions such as kaposis sarcoma
7. A client subjective data includes dysuria, urgency, and urinary
frequency. What action should the nurse implement next?
a. collect a clean catch specimen
b. palpate the suprapubic region
c. instruct to wipe from front to back
d. inquire about recent sexual activity
8. A client tells the nurse that her biopsy results indicate that the
cancer cells are well differentiated How should the nurse respond?
a. offer the client reassurance that this information indicates that the
clients cancer cells are benign
b. explain that these tissue cells often respond more effectively
to radiation than to chemotherapy
c. ask the client in the healthcare provider has giving her any
information about the classification of her cancer
d. help the client make plans to begin inmediate treatment since
her cancer is likely to spread quickly
9. A client with a chronic kidney disease is treated on hemodialysis.
During the 1 treatment clients blood pressure drops from 150/90 to
80/30 Which action should the nurse take first?
a. monitor bp q45 minutes
b. lower the head of the chair and elevate feet
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c. stop dialysis treatment
d. administer 5%albumin IV
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