ATI RN
Age Specific Nursing Care Questions
Question 1 of 5
In the OB follow-up clinic, your patient, who is 4 weeks post-delivery, tells you she is sleeping for long hours, wants to avoid taking care of the baby, and wishes she had never had the baby. What would be your first response?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
A patient states that unit staff members have been avoiding them since an attempt to self-mutilate. The psychiatric-mental health nurse's most appropriate response is to:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
An infant develops jaundice 6 hours after birth. Which one of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Jaundice within 24 hours of birth is pathological, often due to haemolytic disease of the newborn (A), such as Rh incompatibility causing rapid red cell breakdown. Physiological jaundice (C) typically appears after 24 hours, while umbilical sepsis (B), bile duct atresia (D), and neonatal hepatitis (E) are less likely to cause such early onset.
Question 4 of 5
A nurse plans an educational program for staff of a home health agency specializing in care of the elderly. Which topic is the highest priority to include?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The topic of greatest immediacy is the assessment of pain in older adults. Unmanaged pain can precipitate other problems, such as substance abuse and depression. Elderly patients are less likely to be accurately diagnosed and adequately treated for pain. The distracters are unrelated or of lesser importance.
Question 5 of 5
In a sad voice, an elderly patient tells the nurse of the recent deaths of a spouse and close friend. The patient has no other family and only a few acquaintances in the community. The nurses priority is to determine whether which nursing diagnosis applies to this patient?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The patient appears to be experiencing normal grief related to the loss of her family, but because of age and social isolation, the risk for suicide should be determined and has high priority. No defining characteristics exist for the diagnoses of anxiety or spiritual distress. The patients social isolation is important, but the risk for suicide has higher priority.