NCLEX-PN
NCLEX Client Needs Physiologic Adaptation Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
Appropriate care for a client with neutropenia includes:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: When a client is neutropenic, they lack the ability to fight off infection. The mask is to prevent exposure to any upper-respiratory infections.
Question 2 of 5
An appropriate question when assessing a client's self-expectations about weight loss is:
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Nurses should assist clients to evaluate themselves and make behavior changes. Listening to clients, supporting clients' strengths, assisting clients to look at themselves in totality, and encouraging clients to set attainable goals should be part of the nurse-client relationship.
Question 3 of 5
A client is assessed by the nurse as experiencing a crisis. The nurse plans to:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: A crisis is an acute, time-limited state of disequilibrium resulting from a situational, developmental, or societal source of stress. Utilizing the nursing process, the nurse should assist clients to work through a crisis to its resolution and restore their precrisis level of functioning.
Question 4 of 5
A woman seeks assistance because she recently remembered childhood sexual abuse. The nurse should include which of the following goals for this client?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The nurse's role is to help the client deal with the stress caused by the remembered abuse.
Question 5 of 5
A nurse is reviewing a patient's medical record. The record indicates the patient has limited shoulder flexion on the left. Which plane of movement is limited?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Sagittal motion occurs in the midline plane of the body.