ATI LPN
Fundamentals of Nursing LPN Questions
Question 1 of 5
Which behaviors are necessary for a person to successfully adapt to a chronic illness?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Adapting to a chronic illness requires behaviors that preserve identity and autonomy, like learning to live as normally as possible maintaining routines or roles despite symptoms, fostering resilience. Maintaining a positive self-concept bolsters emotional strength, countering illness-related esteem threats, while a sense of hope sustains motivation for management, like adhering to therapy. Accepting dependence or giving up control contradicts adaptation, as retaining agency e.g., self-managing diabetes enhances coping. Successful adaptation hinges on integrating the illness into life without letting it define it, supported by nursing guidance. Research shows these traits reduce psychological distress, enabling clients to thrive, aligning with nursing's goal to maximize function and well-being amidst chronicity.
Question 2 of 5
A community health nurse wants to decrease the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in a group of adolescents. Which action reflects primary prevention?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Primary prevention stops STIs before they occur, key for adolescents at risk from sexual activity. Educating about condom use reducing infection odds by 80% per studies teaches safe practices, a nursing-led action targeting behavior before exposure. Screening is secondary, catching STIs early. Referring or teaching meds is tertiary, managing existing cases. Condom education fits primary's proactive core, empowering teens with knowledge correct use slashes chlamydia or HIV rates in a community setting where peer influence peaks. Nursing's role here prevents incidence spikes, aligning with public health goals to curb STIs through accessible, age-appropriate education, not reaction, ensuring lasting behavioral impact.
Question 3 of 5
The nurse is assigned to care for a client after a left pneumonectomy. Which position is contraindicated for this client?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
The nurse is performing nasotracheal suctioning of a client. The nurse determines that the client is adequately tolerating the procedure if which observation is made?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
The nurse is caring for a client with a spinal cord injury. Which assessment findings alert the nurse that the client is developing autonomic hyperreflexia (autonomic dysreflexia)?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord injury features hypertension and bradycardia (A) from unopposed sympathetic response below the injury. Paralysis (B) is baseline. Sweating/pyrexia (C) or tachycardia/shock (D) don't fit. A is correct. Rationale: Reflexive BP spike and slowed heart rate signal this emergency, requiring immediate action like removing stimuli, per SCI care.