NCLEX-PN
Free PN NCLEX Practice Questions Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
Teaching about the need to avoid foods high in potassium is most important for which client?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Renal disease impairs potassium excretion, leading to hyperkalemia, so avoiding high-potassium foods is critical. The other conditions are more associated with hypokalemia. Physiological Adaptation
Extract:
A patient with Alzheimer's disease is admitted with suspected dehydration after his daughter reports that he's refused to drink anything for the past 3 days.
Question 2 of 5
Which lab result is most expected with dehydration?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Hypernatremia (elevated sodium) is expected in dehydration due to water loss.
Extract:
Question 3 of 5
The nurse is caring for a client with a fractured femur who is in skeletal traction. Which of the following actions is MOST important for the nurse to perform?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Ensuring weights hang freely maintains proper traction alignment, preventing complications like malunion. Checking pin sites (
A) is important but secondary, ROM exercises (
C) are contraindicated in traction, and repositioning (
D) is limited to maintain traction.
Question 4 of 5
The nurse is teaching a client about the healthy use of ego defense mechanisms. An appropriate goal for this client would be
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Reduce fear and protect self-esteem. Ego defense mechanisms are unconscious proactive barriers that are used to manage instinct and affect in the presence of stressful situations. Healthy reactions are those in which the client admits that they are feeling various emotions.
Question 5 of 5
During the assessment of a laboring client, the nurse notes that the FHT are loudest in the upper-left quadrant. The infant is most likely in which position?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Fetal heart tones loudest in the upper-left quadrant suggest a left occipital anterior position, where the fetus's back is aligned with the mother's left side. Other positions` positions are less likely.