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NCLEX NCLEX-PN - National Council Licensure Examination(NCLEX-PN)

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Total 725 questions

The nurse is working with families who have been displaced by a fire in an apartment complex. What is the priority intervention during the initial assessment?

A.

Provide a liaison to meet housing needs.

B.

Attentively listen when clients describe their feelings.

C.

Offer nurturing support for clients who are confused by the events.

D.

Provide structure for clients exhibiting moderate to severe anxiety.

Activities of effective supervisors can be taskrelated or people-related activities. An example of a task-related supervisory activity is:

A.

coaching.

B.

evaluating.

C.

delegating.

D.

facilitating.

The school nurse is conducting health screenings on schoolchildren. During the screening, she identifies a child with the behavioral characteristics of attention deficit disorder. Which of the following behaviors is consistent with this disorder?

A.

slow speech development

B.

overreaction to stimuli from the surroundings

C.

inability to carry on a conversation

D.

concrete thinking

Hearing screening of prematurely born infants is an effective means of identifying disease and is an example of:

A.

primary prevention.

B.

secondary prevention.

C.

tertiary prevention.

D.

disability prevention.

The nurse uses prioritization to determine all the following except:

A.

time allotment for certain tasks.

B.

appropriate interventions.

C.

treatment procedures.

D.

the need for client education.

A hospitalized adult client who routinely works from midnight until 8 a.m. has a temperature of 99.1° F at 4 a.m. The nurse determines that this is most likely due to:

A.

delta sleep

B.

slow brain waves

C.

pneumonia

D.

circadian rhythm

Levothyroxine (Synthroid) is the drug of choice for thyroid replacement therapy in clients with hypothyroidism because:

A.

it is chemically stable, nonallergenic, and can be administered orally once a day.

B.

it is available in a single 25mg tablet, which makes dosing simple.

C.

it is not a prodrug.

D.

it has a short half-life.

A client asks the nurse what risk factors increase the changes of getting skin cancer. The risk factors include all except:

A.

light or fair complexion.

B.

exposure to sun for great periods of time.

C.

certain diet and foods.

D.

history of bad sunburns.

A risk management program within a hospital is responsible for all of the following except:

A.

identifying risks.

B.

controlling financial loss due to malpractice claims.

C.

making sure that staff follow their job descriptions.

D.

analyzing risks and trends to guide further interventions or programs.

Referral for client education in the community can be accomplished through all of the following except:

A.

community agencies such as the American Heart Association.

B.

parish nurses.

C.

home health care agencies.

D.

unlicensed massage therapists.

Which of the following needs immediate medical attention and emergency intervention? The client who:

A.

complains of sharp pain upon taking a deep breath and excessive coughing.

B.

exhibits yellow, productive sputum, lowgrade fever, and crackles.

C.

has a shift of the trachea to the left, with no breath sounds on the right.

D.

has asthma and complains of an inability to catch her breath after exercise.

Acute hyphema is associated with what type of injury?

A.

orthopedic

B.

eye

C.

insect sting or snakebite

D.

gynecological trauma

Which of the following vaccines are not part of the regular schedule of immunizations for children?

A.

DTaP

B.

MMR

C.

Hib

D.

hepatitis A

When assessing a client with early impairment of oxygen perfusion, such as pulmonary embolus, the nurse should expect to find restlessness and which of the following symptoms?

A.

warm, dry skin

B.

bradychardia

C.

tachycardia

D.

eupnea

A client describes her cervical mucus as clear, thin, and elastic. Upon examination, the nurse demonstrates that the cervical mucus can be stretched 8–10 cm. The nurse correctly documents the finding as:

A.

ferning capacity.

B.

lack of ferning.

C.

spinnbarkheit.

D.

inhospitable.