NCLEX-RN PN 2024/2025 TOPICS (May 2023 – May 2025) – 200+ Key Topics
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1 Basic care, delegation: float nurse, Peds nurse, ICU nurse, geriatric nurse
2 Basic care: Alcohol withdrawal: case study; Alcohol toxicity case study
Basic Care: Assistive device: cane, walker, crutches VS walker seating on the chair how will the Pt stand up- put
3 the walker in front of the Pt while holding the walker as the Pt standup
4 Basic care: Bad IV flow, sata
5 Basic Care: Colonoscopy vs iLeostomy
6 Basic care: Disaster drills
7 Basic care: Female urinary catheterization -pull catheter gently once the balloon is inflated
8 Basic care: First aid for bee, wasp, & hornet stings
9 Basic care: health teaching post hip replacement
10 Basic care: How to guide a new blind Pt, sata
11 Basic care: How to palpate thyroid, sata
12 Basic care: Iron rich food
13 Basic Care: Jehovah’s Witness Pt can’t take blood, but can take epoetin alfa
14 Basic care: moderate sedation - what to monitor, sata
Basic care: multiple Pt.: The nurse is scheduled to give medications to 4 patients who will the nurse give the
medication first ? A. Hydrocortisone on px with Addisons that is hypotensive B. Diphenhydramine on patient with
15 cirrhosis and pruritus C. Start a heparin infusion on patient with dvt
16 Basic care: O2 tank -home teaching
17 Basic care: Ostomy or colostomy
Basic care: Post mortem cadever tags answer - bigtoe , patients cadever bag , patients personal bag ; Patient for
18 autopsy -dont remove dentures and remove contractions
19 Basic care: Postmortem jewelry
20 Basic care: prep ec, echocardiogram
Basic care: pressure Ulcer, 86 old Pt for pressure wound dressing- administer pain meds before doing the dressing
21 30 mins before
Basic care: Pt w/ partial colectomy PUD 2 days ago, weak, dizzy and vomiting everytime Pt. eats, what to tell
22 regarding food to eat, sata
23 Basic Care: Recommendations for a Pt with sickle cells: avoid extreme temperatures, etc.
24 Basic care: Removal of foley catheter, sata
25 Basic care: Sulfur mustard exposure, sata
26 Basic Care: the color of the trashbin that wasn't in the hospital
27 Basic care: Therapeutic Communication
28 Basic care: Tonometer for eyes: pressure
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29 Basic care: Transfer of Pt w/ hemiplagia
broccoli?
Basic care: Which Fluid intake would a charge nurse question? RBC, orange juice, blended cauliflower and
30 basic care: wound dehiscence and evisceration nursing management
31
, 32 EKG Afib- will cause? Pulmo embolism, DVT,stroke: Select all that apply (sata)
33 EKG Aflutter tx
34 EKG artifacts nursing intervention
35 EKG Bradycardia tx, action to take
36 EKG sinus tach, Pt with fever ecg reading- sinus tach strip
37 EKG svt
38 EKG V-fib
39 EKG: Intro to EKG / ECG basic - main part of an ECG and what it indicates
Geri: Alzheimer- difficult life- want to go to heaven VS early vs late signs, nursing intervention, case study;
40 Alzheimer VS Delirium
41 Geri: Elderly abuse
42 Geri: Health teaching to elderly with functional incontinence, sata
43 Infection ctrl: C. Diff
44 Infection ctrl: Chickenpox
infection ctrl: contact precaution nursing responsibilities in providing care SATA -leave the room removing the
45 gloves first the the gown -handwashing
46 Infection ctrl: Gonorrhea- Doc
Infection ctrl: Influenza on droplet prec the nurse will include the ff on the pts care Sata : -put surgical mask while
47 providing -allow patient to leave the room for essential clinical reasons -private room
48 Infection ctrl: Parainfluenza: droplet precaution
49 Infection ctrl: protocols for varicella exposure during pregnancy
50 Infection ctrl: RSV what will be the nursing responsibilities -contact prec -antibiotics -patent airway
51 Infection ctrl: Rubeola Precaution
52 Infection ctrl: the case of Leptospirosis mistaken for leprosy
53 infection ctrl: which patients you would put in a room together vs who you wouldn’t
54 Infection ctrl: Which Pt could receive varicella vaccine
55 Legal questions about law suits
56 Legal: HIPAA violation = Negligence
57 Legal: Integrity, justice
58 Legal: Libel vs Assault vs Battery vs Negligence
59 Legal: LPN job desc: sliding scale insulin
60 Legal: nurse-to-nurse conflict: what the charge nurse should do
61 Legal: PHI? veracity, beneficence, Non maleficence, autonomy
62 Legal: wrong-site surgery
63 MedSurge: thyroidectomy postop: which electrolyte has an imbalace vs Thyroid dse: thyroid storm
