ATI LPN
Perioperative Nursing Care Test Questions Questions
Question 1 of 5
What is the Nursing Practice Act?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
During the care of a preoperative patient, the nurse has given the patient a preoperative benzodiazepine. The patient is now requesting to void. What action should the nurse take?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: After a benzodiazepine, the patient should use a bedpan or urinal due to sedation-induced lightheadedness or drowsiness, requiring bed rest with side rails up. Ambulating to the bathroom (choices A, D) risks falls; waiting for OR catheterization ignores immediate need. Safety is paramount in preoperative medication management.
Question 3 of 5
The nurse is caring for a patient who is experiencing pain and anxiety following his prostatectomy. Which intervention will likely best assist in decreasing the patient's pain and anxiety?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
You are caring for an 88-year-old woman who is scheduled for a right mastectomy. You know that elderly patients are frequently more anxious prior to surgery than younger patients. What would you increase with this patient to decrease her anxiety?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
A patient waiting in the presurgical holding area asks the nurse, 'Why exactly do they have to put a breathing tube into me? My surgery is on my knee.' What is the best rationale for intubation during a surgical procedure that the nurse should describe?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.