ATI LPN
Introduction to Nursing Practice Questions
Question 1 of 5
The nurse notes that a patient's blood pressure has dropped. The patient is experiencing nausea, dizziness, and abdominal pain. Which characteristic does the nurse demonstrate when the healthcare provider is notified with the patient's condition?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Notifying the provider about a patient's deteriorating condition shows responsibility , ensuring timely intervention. Caring reflects empathy, honesty isn't primary here, and organized aids tracking, but responsibility encompasses acting on changes. Duty to monitor and report upholds safe care, making it the demonstrated trait.
Question 2 of 5
The new nurse asks the preceptor how context affects clinical judgment. What response by the preceptor is best?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Context in clinical judgment integrates the patient's full story circumstances, history, and needs shaping decisions beyond raw data. Denying context's role ignores real-world factors. Environment is partial, missing patient specifics. Complexity is true but vague. A best explains how context, like socioeconomic or cultural factors, refines judgment, enhancing accuracy and empathy, making it the preceptor's best response.
Question 3 of 5
A nurse wishes to participate in an activity that will influence health outcomes. What action by the nurse best meets this objective?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Creating transportation directly improves access to care, influencing health outcomes by ensuring appointments are kept. Lobbying and running for office shape policy indirectly, with delayed impact. A food pantry aids nutrition but less directly ties to outcomes. A addresses a practical barrier, yielding measurable health benefits, making it the best action.
Question 4 of 5
A home health care nurse is planning an exercise program with an older adult who lives at home independently but whose mobility issues prevent much activity outside the home. Which exercise regimen would be most beneficial to this adult?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: For a homebound older adult, building strength and flexibility enhances functional fitness for daily activities, per the document's feedback, maintaining independence. Endurance and aerobic capacity are less critical for limited mobility. Personal training is vague and resource-intensive. Strength and flexibility address mobility issues directly, reducing fall risk and supporting ADLs, making it the most beneficial regimen.
Question 5 of 5
An older adult client takes medication three times a day and becomes confused about which medication should be taken at which time. The client refuses to use a pill sorter with slots for different times, saying 'Those are for old people.' What action by the nurse would be most helpful?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Color-coded stickers on caps, per the document, offer a simple, visible cue for timing, respecting the client's refusal of a sorter. Drawer arrangement risks errors, easy-open tops don't address timing, and a list may be lost. C reduces confusion effectively, enhancing adherence, making it most helpful.