ATI RN
Medical Surgical ATI Proctored Exam Questions
Question 1 of 5
Which statement about sleep is accurate?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The correct answer is C because during sleep, an individual's conscious awareness of the environment diminishes. Option A is incorrect because lack of sleep exacerbates but does not directly cause disorders. Option B underestimates the recommended sleep duration, and Option D overestimates the prevalence of sleep problems.
Question 2 of 5
Nurses who rotate shifts or work nights are at risk for developing shift work sleep disorder characterized by insomnia, sleepiness, and fatigue. Identify at least three negative implications for the nurse.
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
On the first postoperative day following a bowel resection, the patient complains of abdominal and incisional pain rated 9 on a scale of 0 to 10. Postoperative orders include morphine, 4 mg IV q2 hr, for pain and may repeat morphine, 4 mg IV, for breakthrough pain. The nurse determines that it has been only 2 hours since the last dose of morphine and wants to wait a little longer. What effect does the nurse’s action have on the patient?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
Match the following types of pain in the left column with a category of pain from the upper right column and an example of the source of the pain from the lower right column.
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
A postoperative 68-year-old opioid-naive patient is receiving morphine by patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for postoperative pain. What is the rationale for not initiating the PCA analgesic with a basal dose of analgesic as well?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.