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LPN Fundamentals Questions
Question 1 of 5
What is the best intervention when the client has just experienced the crisis and still at the first phase of the crisis?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: In the first crisis phase (acute distress), cognitive therapy (C) is best, addressing distorted thoughts to reduce panic, per crisis intervention. Behavior therapy (A) modifies actions later. Gestalt (B) explores awareness, less urgent. Milieu (D) uses environment, not immediate. Cognitive therapy stabilizes thinking, making C correct.
Question 2 of 5
Nurse Angela is about to make a diagnosis but very unsure because the S/S the client is experiencing is not specific with her diagnosis of POWERLESSNESS R/T DIFFICULTY ACCEPTING LOSS OF LOVED ONE. She then focus on gathering data to refute or prove her diagnosis but her plans and interventions are already ongoing for the diagnosis. Which type of Diagnosis is this?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Powerlessness R/T loss' with nonspecific signs and ongoing plans is possible (C); Angela's uncertainty prompts data collection, per NANDA. Actual (A) needs clear evidence, probable (B) isn't standard, risk (D) predicts. C fits tentative status, making it correct.
Question 3 of 5
Which of the following statement is TRUE about somatic pain?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Somatic pain arises from skin, bones, and muscles (C), per somatic nociception well-localized, unlike visceral. Distension (A) is visceral, poorly localized (B) too. 'All' (D) includes false A and B. C correctly identifies somatic pain's source, validated by pain anatomy, making it the true statement.
Question 4 of 5
Which of the following is NOT an eminent sign of death?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Eminent signs of death include death rattle (A), apnea (B), and swallowing loss (D), per dying process body fails. Increased muscle tone (C) is untrue tone decreases as muscles relax terminally. C contradicts flaccidity, making it the correct non-sign.
Question 5 of 5
Which of the following statement is NOT true about rigor mortis?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Rigor mortis begins 2-6 hours (A), from ATP loss (B), lasts ~24-72 hours (C), per forensic science not trunk-first (D), starts in face/jaw. D's location is untrue, making it the correct false statement.