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ATI Med Surg Proctored Exam Practice Questions & Answers 2025/26-A nurse is caring for a client who experienced a traumatic head injury and has an intraventricular catheter (Ventriculostomy) for ICP monitoring. The nurse should monitor the client for which of the following complications related to ...

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  • December 8, 2023
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ATI Med Surg Proctored Exam Practice Questions & Answers
A nurse is caring for a client who experienced a traumatic head injury and has an
intraventricular catheter (Ventriculostomy) for ICP monitoring. The nurse should
monitor the client for which of the following complications related to the
ventriculostomy?:

a. Headache
b. Infection
c. Aphasia
d. Hypertension - b. Infection
Monitor for infection and use strict asepsis to avoid life-threatening meningitis.

A nurse is providing education to a client who is to undergo an EEG the next day.
Which of the following info should the nurse include in the teaching?

a. "Do not wash your hair the morning of the procedure."
b. "Try and stay awake most of the night prior to the procedure."
c. "The procedure will take approximately 15 mins."
d. "You will need to lie flat for 4 hours after the procedure." - b. "Try and stay
awake most of the night prior to the procedure."

Tell the client to remain awake to provide cranial stress and increase the possibility
of abnormal electrical activity

A nurse is caring for a client who is postprocedural following a lumbar puncture
and reports a throbbing headache when sitting upright. Which of the following
actions should the nurse take? SATA.

a. Use the GCS scale to assess the client
b. Assist the client into a supine position
c. Administer an opioid analgesic
d. Encourage the client to increase PO fluid intake
e. Instruct the client to perform coughing and deep breathing - B, D

,A nurse is caring for a client who has continuous bladder irrigation following a
transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). Which of the following findings
should the nurse report to the provider?

a Output equal to the instilled irrigate
b. Client reports bladder spasms
c. Viscous urinary output with clots
d. Reports of strong urge to urinate - c. Viscous urinary output with clots

Urine that is bright red with clots is an indication of arterial bleeding.

A nurse is monitoring the ECG of a client who has hypocalcemia. Which of the
following findings should the nurse expect?

a. Flattened T waves
b. Prolonged QT intervals
c. Shortened QT intervals
d Widened QRS complexes - b. Prolonged QT intervals
Manifestations of hypocalcemia include tingling, numbness, tetany, seizures,
prolonged QT intervals, and laryngospasm.

A nurse is preparing a client who has a brain tumor for a CT scan. Which of the
following factors affects the manner in which the nurse will prepare the client for
the scan?

a. No food or fluids consumed for 4 hours
b. Difficulty recalling recent events
c. Development of hives while eating shrimp
d. Paresthesia in both hands - c. Development of hives while eating shrimp
Shellfish allergy is contraindication of use of contrast media during a CT scan.

A nurse is preparing an in-service program about the stages of acute kidney injury.
Which of the following pieces of info should the nurse include about prerenal
azotemia?

, a. Prerenal azotemia begins prior to the onset of symptoms
b. Interference with renal perfusion causes renal azotemia
c. Prerenal azotemia is irreversible, even in early stages
d. Infections and tumors cause prerenal azotemia - b. Interference with renal
perfusion causes prerenal azotemia.
Prerenal = interference with renal perfusion, such as from heart failure or
hypovolemic shock.

A nurse is teaching a client who has CAD about the difference between angina
pectoris and MI. Which of the following should the nurse identify as indications of
MI? SATA.

a. N/V
b. Diaphoresis and dizziness
c. Chest and left arm pain that subsides with rest
d. Anxiety and feelings of doom
e. Bounding pulse and bradypnea - A, B, D

A nurse is reviewing the lab results of a lumbar puncture for a client who has
manifestations of bacterial meningitis. Which of the following findings should the
nurse expect?

a. Elevated glucose
b. Elevated protein
c. Presence of RBCs
d. Presence of D-dimer - b. Elevated protein

Manifestations of bacterial meningitis include increase protein in the CSF,
decreased glucose. RBCs can indicate bleeding, however, WBCs are what
indicates bacterial meningitis.

A nurse is providing teaching to a client who has a new diagnosis of myasthenia
gravis (MG). Which of the following pieces of information should the nurse
include?

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