STUVIA 2024/2025
Fundamentals Exit Exam
- abdominal distension - ✔✔Abnormal newborn finding (30 min after delivery)
- administer analgesics to the child on a routine schedule throughout the day and night - ✔✔Child
postoperative following tonsillectomy - what for pain?
- apply an ankle-foot orthotic device to the cleint's feet - ✔✔Actions the nurse should take to
decrease the client's risk of developing plantar flexion contractures?
- bed at the KNEES when lifting
- stand close to the object when lifting it - ✔✔Lifting a bedside cabinet - body mechanics
- bladder scan shows 525 mL of urine
- irrigation resolves any existing blockages - ✔✔Finding that indicates urinary catheter requires
irrigation?
- cachetic w/ flaccid muscle tone
- skin dry and scaly with bruises on extremities
%
- chemotherapy
- immunosuppressed
- neutropenic - ✔✔For what clients should protective isolation be used?
- chronic physical disability - ✔✔What is the most common factor that affects a client's performance
of ADLs?
- clamp the tubing below the collection port
- use sterile cup - ✔✔Collecting a urine specimen for culture and sensitivity for a client w/ a UTI.
client has an indwelling catheter.
- compare the client's home medications with the provider's prescriptions - ✔✔medication
reconciliation interventions for home medications
- decreased creatinine clearance - ✔✔Expected part of the aging process
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- decreased gastric motility
- results in meds remaining in the digestive tract for long periods of time - ✔✔Which of the following
physiologic changes associated w/ aging can affect med dosage?
- dependent position
Other:
- 10-15 degree angle for older adults - ✔✔Peripheral IV catheter for an older adult client - how
should the arm be positioned?
- direct irrigation from inner canthus to out canthus of the eye
- exert pressure on the bony prominences when holding the eyelids open - ✔✔Performing eye
irrigation - where to direct the irrigation?
- disconnect BP machine, and measure the BP manually Q 15 min. - ✔✔Caring for an unstable client
who needs BP readings Q15 min. BP machine is inconsistent.
- droplet - ✔✔Rubella precautions?
- engage the client in physical activity - ✔✔What is the first action for client experiencing panic level
%
anxiety?
- evaluate pedal pulses - determines adequate blood supply to the foot. - ✔✔A nurse is admitting a
client who has decreased circulation in the left leg. which action should the nurse take first?
- for osteoporosis
- contraindication: esophageal achalasia - ✔✔Alendronate sodium - what is a contraindication?
- granulation tissue fills the wound during healing
- granulation = beefy red tissue - ✔✔Wound healing by secondary intention
- hold breath for 5 seconds after goal volume is reached - ✔✔Incentive spirometry - how long to hold
breath for?
- increase coarse fiber
- sit on the toilet 30 min after eating a meal - ✔✔Older adult w/ constipation - what type of fiber
- instruct the family to refrain from pushing the button for the client while he is asleep - ✔✔Pain
Medications through a PCA pump - family instructions?
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