ATI LPN
Timby's Introductory Medical-Surgical Nursing Thirteenth, North American Edition
Chapter 47 : Caring for Clients With Disorders of the Liver, Gallbladder, or Pancreas Questions
Question 1 of 5
The nurse is reviewing laboratory work that is consistent with a client being positive for hepatitis and in the incubation phase of the illness. What should the nurse be concerned with at this stage of the illness?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: In the incubation phase, the virus replicates within the liver, and the client is asymptomatic. Late in this phase, the virus can be found in blood, bile, and stools. At this point, the client is considered infectious.
Question 2 of 5
A client is seeing the physician for a suspected tumor of the liver. What laboratory study results would indicate that the client may have a primary malignant liver tumor?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Alpha-fetoprotein, a serum protein normally produced during fetal development, is a marker that, if elevated, can induce a primary malignant liver tumor.
Total bilirubin and serum enzyme levels may be elevated. White blood cell count elevation would indicate an inflammatory response.
Question 3 of 5
A client comes to the clinic to see the health care provider for right upper abdominal discomfort, nausea, and frequent belching especially after eating a meal high in fat. What disorder do these symptoms correlate with?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: With cholelithiasis, initially, clients experience belching, nausea, and right upper quadrant discomfort, with pain or cramps after high-fat meal. Symptoms become acute when a stone blocks bile flow from the gallbladder. With acute cholecystitis, clients usually are very sick with fever, vomiting, tenderness over the liver, and severe pain called biliary colic. The symptoms do not correlate with hepatitis.
Question 4 of 5
The nurse is caring for a client suspected of having stones that have collected in the common bile duct. What test should the nurse prepare the client for that will locate these stones?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: ERCP locates stones that have collected in the common bile duct. A colonoscopy will not locate gallstones but only allows visualization of the large intestine. Abdominal x-ray is not a reliable locator of gallstones. A cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of the gallbladder.
Question 5 of 5
A client is scheduled to have a laparoscopic cholecystectomy as an outpatient. The client asks the nurse when it will be possible to resume normal activities. What information should the nurse provide?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: A prolonged recovery period usually is unnecessary. Most clients resume normal activities within 1 week.