ATI RN
ATI Medical Surgical Proctored Exam Questions
Question 1 of 5
A 54-year-old client has cholelithiasis and is admitted for an elective cholecystectomy. The client is 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 205 pounds, and has smoked one pack of cigarettes per day for 35 years. The client will be NPO at midnight. When the client's spouse asks why the client cannot have breakfast the morning before surgery, the nurse should explain:
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The client's size has nothing to do with an NPO status. Clients are at greatest risk for aspiration and vomiting during surgery when food and/or liquids are in the stomach. Preparation on the morning of surgery is time consuming, but it does not affect a client's NPO status. The gallbladder lies under the surface of the liver and is a part of the biliary tract, not the intestinal tract. Cholecystectomy does not involve the intestinal tract or its contents.
Question 2 of 5
In conducting a primary survey on a trauma patient, which of the following is considered one of the priority elements of the primary survey?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
What priority nursing action should you take?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
You anticipate that the physician will order which drug for status epilepticus?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
What is the priority nursing diagnosis?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.