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ATI comprehensive Exam Questions With
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Do not delegate - answer✔What you can EAT E-evaluate A-assess T-teach
Addison's & Cushings - answer✔Addison's = down down down up down
Cushings= up up up down up
hypo/hypernatremia, hypo/hypertension, blood volume, hypo/hyperkalemia, hypo/hyperglycemia
Better peripheral perfusion? - answer✔EleVate Veins, DAngle Arteries
APGAR - answer✔Appearance (all pink, pink and blue, blue (pale)
Pulse (>100, <100, absent)
Grimace (cough, grimace, no response)
Activity (flexed, flaccid, limp)
Respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
Airborne precautions - answer✔My chicken hez tb (measles, chickenpox (varicella) Herpes
zoster/shingles TB
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Airborne precautions protective equip - answer✔private room, neg pressure with 6-12 air
exchanges/hr mask N95 for TB
Droplet precautions - answer✔spiderman! sepsis, scarlet fever, streptococcal pharyngitis,
parvovirus, pneumonia, pertussis,
influenza,
diptheria,
epiglottitis,
rubella,
mumps, meningitis, mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia, adeNovirus (Private room or cohort
mask!)
Contact precaution - answer✔MRS WEE
Multidrug resistant organism
Rresiratory infection
Skin infection
Wound infection
Enteric infection (C diff)
Eye infection (conjunctivitis)
Skin infection - answer✔VCHIPS
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Varicella zoster
Cutaneous diptheria
Herpes simplez
Impetigo
Peduculosis
Scabies
Air or Pulmonary Embolism - answer✔S/S chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, pale/cyanotic, sense
of impending doom. (turn pt to LEFT side and LOWER the head of bed.)
Woman in labor (un-reassuring FHR) - answer✔late decels, decreased variability, fetal
bradycardia, etc Turn pt on Left side, give O2, stop pitocin, Increase IV fluids!
Tube feeding with decreased LOC - answer✔Pt on Right side (promotes emptying of the
stomach) Head of bed elevated (prevent aspiration)
After lumbar puncture and oil based myelogram - answer✔pt is flat SUPINE (prevent headache
and leaking of CSF)
Pt with heat stroke - answer✔flat with legs elevated
during Continuous Bladder Irrigation (CBI) - answer✔catheter is taped to the thigh. leg must be
kept straight.
After Myringotomy - answer✔position on the side of AFFECTED ear, allows drainage.
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After Cataract surgery - answer✔pt sleep on UNAFFECTED side with a night shield for 1-4
weeks
after Thyroidectomy - answer✔low or semi-fowler's position, support head, neck and shoulders.
Infant with Spina Bifida - answer✔Prone so that sac does not rupture
Buck's Traction (skin) - answer✔elevate foot of bed for counter traction
After total hip replacement - answer✔don't sleep on side of surgery, don't flex hip more than 45-
60 degress, don't elevate Head Of Bed more than 45 degrees. Maintain hip abduction by
separating thighs with pillows.
Prolapsed cord - answer✔Knee to chest or Trendelenburg
Cleft Lip - answer✔position on back or in infant seat to prevent trauma to the suture line. while
feeding hold in upright position.
To prevent dumping syndrome - answer✔(post operative ulcer/stomach surgeries) eat in
reclining position. Lie down after meals for 20-30 min. also restrict fluids during meals, low
CHO and fiber diet. small, frequent meals.
AKA (above knee amputation) - answer✔elevate for first 24 hours on pillow. position prone
daily to maintain hip extension.
BKA (below knee amputation) - answer✔foot of bed elevated for first 24 hours. position prone
to provide hip extension.
