NCLEX-PN
NCLEX Trainer Test 7 Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
Which individual is at greatest risk for developing hypertension?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: 45 year-old African American attorney. The incidence of hypertension is greater among African Americans than other groups in the US. The incidence among the Hispanic population is rising.
Extract:
A client with a twenty-five-year history of alcohol abuse is seen in the outpatient clinic for treatment of chronic cirrhosis.
Question 2 of 5
Which of the following symptoms would suggest to the nurse that the client is in the early stages of hepatic encephalopathy?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Strategy: Determine how each answer choice relates to hepatic encephalopathy. (1) ascites is symptom of cirrhosis (2) correct-impaired thought processes is early symptom (3) hyperventilation and stupor is late symptom (4) decerebrate/decorticate posturing late symptom
Extract:
Question 3 of 5
A client with end stage renal disease has been managed by peritoneal dialysis. Which finding should be reported to the doctor immediately?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Complaints of abdominal pain, nausea, fever, and return of cloudy dialysate should be reported to the physician since they are indications of peritonitis. Diminished or slow return of dialysate, as mentioned in answer A, is managed by having the client turn side to side or move about to facilitate return flow, so it is incorrect. Answers C and D are favorable findings that do not require intervention; therefore, they are incorrect.
Question 4 of 5
Which of these parents' comments about a newborn would most likely reveal an initial finding of a suspected pyloric stenosis?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Mild vomiting turned into vomiting that shot across the room. Projectile vomiting is a hallmark of pyloric stenosis.
Question 5 of 5
A middle-aged woman is brought to the emergency room after being raped in her home. The client asks the nurse to call her husband to come to the emergency room. The nurse knows that the most common reaction of significant others to a rape victim is reflected in which of the following statements?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: sexual assault by rape is a crisis situation for both victim and family members and friends