NCLEX-PN
NCLEX PN Practice Tests Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
The nurse is reinforcing teaching about nutrition with the parents of a 6-year-old client with cystic fibrosis. Which recommended diet should the nurse include?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Cystic fibrosis requires a high-calorie, high-protein diet to support growth and compensate for malabsorption. Other diets do not meet the increased nutritional demands.
Question 2 of 5
The nurse is caring for a client with irritable bowel syndrome. Which of the following menu selections would be appropriate to offer the client?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Baked chicken, brown rice, and strawberries are low-FODMAP, suitable for IBS. Beans, yogurt, coffee, and broccoli are high-FODMAP, likely to trigger symptoms.
Question 3 of 5
An adult client is to have a portable chest x-ray in his room. The client's wife and pregnant daughter are visiting. Which action is essential for the nurse?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Removing visitors, especially a pregnant woman, minimizes radiation exposure, the essential safety action during a chest x-ray.
Question 4 of 5
Parents of a 7 year-old child call the clinic nurse because their daughter was sent home from school because of a rash. The child had been seen the day before by the provider and diagnosed with Fifth Disease (erythema infectiosum). What is the most appropriate action by the nurse?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Explain that this rash is not contagious and does not require isolation. Fifth Disease is not contagious once the rash appears, except in specific cases.
Question 5 of 5
The nurse is caring for a client who had thoracic surgery yesterday and has a chest tube attached to water seal drainage. The client's family asks why he has to have a chest tube. What should the nurse include in the response?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Chest tubes remove air/fluid from the pleural cavity, allowing lung reexpansion post-thoracic surgery. Other options misrepresent the tube's function.