NCLEX-PN
NCLEX Trainer Test 7 Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
The client is admitted to the intensive care unit with severe chest pain. Which information provides the nurse with the most data that can be utilized in planning care?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Vital signs include blood pressure, pulse, respirations, and temperature, providing the most comprehensive data for planning care in a client with severe chest pain. Blood pressure and pulse oximeter are included in vital signs, and EEG is irrelevant for chest pain.
Extract:
A client has a chest tube inserted for treatment of a hemothorax.
Question 2 of 5
Which of the following findings would indicate to the nurse that there is a problem with the effective functioning of the chest tube?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Strategy: Think about each answer choice. (1) appropriate, regulates the amount of suction delivered to the patient (2) correct-would indicate an air leak, would not allow negative pressure to be reestablished and would hinder complete resolution of the pneumothorax (3) appropriate, provides for a water seal (4) would be an expected finding
Extract:
A child with epiglottitis.
Question 3 of 5
Which of the following nursing observations would indicate to the nurse that a child with epiglottitis is having an early complication of hypoxemia?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Strategy: Determine how each answer choice relates to epiglottitis. (1) correct-heart rate correlates with hypoxemia and is an early finding, along with restlessness (2) cyanosis, late sign (3) circumoral cyanosis, late sign (4) sign of epiglottitis
Extract:
Question 4 of 5
The nurse is monitoring the fluid status of a 63-year-old woman receiving IV fluids following surgery.
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Fluid volume overload is characterized by symptoms such as a bounding pulse, elevated blood pressure, respiratory crackles (due to pulmonary edema), and distended neck veins. Cool skin and respiratory crackles with a bounding pulse are indicative of this condition. The other options suggest dehydration, non-specific symptoms, or normal findings unrelated to fluid overload.
Question 5 of 5
A woman is scheduled for a breast biopsy. She is crying and says, 'I am so upset because I watched my mother die from ovarian cancer.' What is the most appropriate nursing diagnosis?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Fear of cancer due to her mother's death is the most specific diagnosis, addressing her emotional response to the biopsy.