NCLEX-PN
NCLEX-PN Practice Questions Free Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
What interpersonal relief behavior is Ashley using?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Somatizing involves expressing emotional conflict, like Ashley's severe anxiety, through physical symptoms such as dizziness and nausea. The other behaviors do not match her presentation. Psychosocial Integrity
Question 2 of 5
The client tells the nurse he has trigeminal neuralgia. What would the nurse expect in the client's history?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Trigeminal neuralgia causes severe facial pain, often triggered by stimuli like cold air, unlike lead exposure, ambulation issues, or leg pain.
Question 3 of 5
The nurse is caring for clients in the GYN clinic. A client at 28-weeks gestation states that she occasionally leaks urine when she coughs or sneezes. Which of the following actions by the nurse is BEST?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Urine leakage during coughing or sneezing at 28 weeks gestation suggests stress incontinence, common due to pelvic pressure. Kegel exercises strengthen pelvic floor muscles, improving control. A urine specimen (
B) is unnecessary without infection signs, leakage is not ‘expected’ (
C), and specialist referral (
D) is premature.
Extract:
Arteriosclerosis:
Question 4 of 5
Arteriosclerosis:
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Arteriosclerosis involves hardening of arteries due to calcium plaques and loss of elasticity.
Extract:
The day before a patient who has had a subtotal gastrectomy is to be discharged, the patient complains of perspiring and having epigastric discomfort about a half hour after eating lunch. The symptoms disappear within a few minutes.
Question 5 of 5
The nurse recognizes that the teaching about prevention is understood when the patient states, 'I can limit these symptoms by:
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Small, low-carbohydrate meals reduce dumping syndrome symptoms post-gastrectomy.