ATI PN FUNDAMENTAL ACTUAL EXAM LATEST 2024/2025 DETAILED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A++
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ATI PN FUNDAMENTAL ACTUAL EXAM LATEST 2024/2025 DETAILED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A++
ATI PN FUNDAMENTAL ACTUAL EXAM LATEST 2024/2025 DETAILED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A++
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ATI PN FUNDAMENTAL ACTUAL EXAM LATEST 2024/2025
DETAILED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A++
Autonomy - ANSWER client's right to make own personal decisions, even
when those decisions might not be in the client's own best interest
Beneficence - ANSWER positive actions to help others
Fidelity - ANSWER agreement to keep promises
Justice - ANSWER fairness in care delivery and use of resources
Nonmaleficence - ANSWER avoidance of harm or injury
Paternalism - ANSWER assumption that one person can assume
responsibility for making the decisions of another person
Advocacy - ANSWER support of clients' health, safety, and personal rights
Responsibility - ANSWER willingness to respect obligations and follow
through on promises
Accountability - ANSWER ability to answer for one's own actions
Confidentiality - ANSWER protection of privacy without diminishing access
to high-quality care
When is a problem an ethical dilemma? - ANSWER When:
- A review of scientific data is not enough to solve it.
- It involves a conflict between two moral imperatives.
- The answer will have a profound effect on the situation and the client.
Ethical decision making - ANSWER Process that requires striking a
balance between science and morality
A nurse is caring for a client who decides not to have surgery despite
significant blockages in his
,coronary arteries. The nurse understands that this client's choice is an
example of which of the following
ethical principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmaleficence - ANSWER B. Autonomy
In this situation, the client is exercising his right to make his own personal
decision about
surgery, regardless of others' opinions of what is "best" for him. This is an
example of autonomy.
A nurse offers pain medication to a client who is postoperative prior to
ambulation. The nurse
understands that this aspect of care delivery is an example of which of the
following ethical principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Beneficence - ANSWER D. Beneficence
Beneficence is taking positive actions to help others. By administering pain
medication
before the client attempts a potentially painful exercise like ambulation, the
nurse is taking a
specific and positive action to help the client.
A nurse is instructing a group of nursing students about the responsibilities
involved with organ
donation and procurement. When the nurse explains that all clients waiting
for a kidney transplant have
to meet the same qualifications, the students should understand that this
aspect of care delivery is an
example of which of the following ethical principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmaleficence - ANSWER C. Justice
,Justice is fairness in care delivery and in the use of resources. By applying
the same
qualifications to all potential kidney transplant recipients, organ
procurement organizations
demonstrate this ethical principle in determining the allocation of these
scarce resources.
A nurse questions a medication prescription as too extreme in light of the
client's advanced age
and unstable status. The nurse understands that this action is an example
of which of the following
ethical principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmaleficence - ANSWER D. Nonmaleficence
Nonmaleficence is the avoidance of harm or injury. In this situation,
administering the
medication could harm the client. By questioning it, the nurse is
demonstrating this ethical principle.
A nurse is instructing a group of nursing students about how to know and
what to expect when ethical
dilemmas arise. Which of the following situations should the students
identify as an ethical dilemma?
A. A nurse on a medical-surgical unit demonstrates signs of chemical
impairment.
B. A nurse overhears another nurse telling an older adult client that if he
doesn't stay in bed, she
will have to apply restraints.
C. A family has conflicting feelings about the initiation of enteral tube
feedings for their father, who
is terminally ill.
D. A client who is terminally ill hesitates to name her spouse on her durable
power of
attorney form. - ANSWER C. A family has conflicting feelings about the
initiation of enteral tube feedings for their father, who
is terminally ill.
, Making the decision about initiating enteral tube feedings is an example of
an ethical
dilemma. *A review of scientific data cannot resolve the issue, and it is not
easy to resolve. The
decision will have a profound effect on the situation and on the client.*
*Medical* asepsis
[AKA: "Clean Technique"] - ANSWER - practices* to reduce* the number,
growth, and spread of micro-organisms;
- Used for: admin oral meds, managing NG tubes, providing personal
hygiene, etc.
*Surgical* asepsis
[AKA: "Sterile Technique"] - ANSWER - practices *to eliminate* all micro-
organisms from an object or area to prevent contamination;
- Used for: parenteral med admin, insertion of urinary catheters, surgical
procedures, sterile dressing changes, etc.
Latex allergy - ANSWER - Must use latex-free gloves;
- Schedule surgery first thing in the morning;
- Label O.R. as "latex free";
- clients w/latex allergy usually have an allergy to foods such as bananas,
kiwis, and avocados
Sterile Field - ANSWER - To open a wrapped-sterile kit: Pull *the top flap*
[the one furthest from your body] *away from your body* first;
- Outer packaging and 1" border around edges are *NOT* sterile;
- Any object below the waist, above the waist, or exposed to moisture
should be considered contaminated;
- Do *not* reach across or above a sterile field;
- Do *not* turn your back on a sterile field;
- Hold items to add to a sterile field at least 6" above the field
Donning Sterile Gloves - ANSWER - Use *non-dominant hand* and pick up
*dominant-hand glove* by grasping the folded bottom edge of the cuff *
(only touching the inside of the glove)*;
- Pull dominant glove onto dominant hand;
- With sterile dominant-gloved hand, place fingers of dominant hand *inside
the cuff* of the non-dominant glove, lifting it off the wrapper, and put non-
dominant hand into it
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