What am I?
What is the function of the medulla?
What part of the brain controls the basic vital function?
Answer Rationale:
The Human Body in Health and Illness pg 189
True or False? When moving a non-weight-bearing client the nurse should always put the bed in the lowest position.
False
The nurse should bend her knees while moving the client
Bending the knees
Answer Rationale:
Bending the knees reduces strain on the back and helps to prevent injury
FON 7th ED pg. 161-162
Trypsin, lipase, and amylase are all enzymes produced by what organ?
What is the pancreas?
Answer Rationale:
The Human Body in Health and Illness pg 448-49
According to Maslow's model, oxygenation would be assessing what client need?
What is Physiologic
Answer Rationale:
Oxygenation is a physiologic need according to Maslow's model FON 7th Ed pg 12
What is a normal adult Heart Rate?
A. 65-100
B. 65-105
C. 60-100
D. 90-120
Communication for continuity of care, to provide a permanent record of patient care, to record accountability, and as a legal record for the patient and provider are for what reason?
What are the purposes of documentation?
Which hormones regulate the sodium and potassium levels excreted by the kidneys
What is Aldosterone
Answer Rationale: The Human Body in Health and Illness pg. 268
What is the best action by a new nurse when giving a client and complete bed bath?
Close the curtains around the client's bed.
Answer Rationale:
Closing the curtain around the client's bed maintains most privacy if the client is sharing a room or if someone enters the room without knocking FON 7th Ed pg. 193
What finger-like projections are found in the small intestines to aid in peristalsis
What are villi?
Answer Rationale:
The Human Body in Health and Illness pg 438
True or False? The newly licensed Practical nurse would work independently to meet the client's needs licensed LPN
False.
When auscultating a client's apical pulse, the S2 is produced when the:
A. Ventricular walls vibrate
B. Semilunar valve close
C. Mitral valve opens
D. Blood pass through aorta
What are the actions performed by the nurse to prevent complications of immobility
What is passive range of motion?
What gland simulates the maturity of lymphocytes into T cells and coordinates the client's immune system?
What is the thymus gland?
Answer Rationale:
the Human Body in Health and Illness pg 376
During the adult stage of life, why do we promote weight-bearing exercises?
What are the factors that stimulate the bone to grow thicker and wider in adults?
Answer Rationale:
The Human Body in Health and Illness
Bile is needed by the small intestines to help with digestion. Where is the bile stored before this process?
What is the gallbladder
Answer Rationale:
The Human Body in Health and Illness pg 445
What is your primary goal in performing a comprehensive physical assessment?
What is it to develop a plan of care?
FON Chapter 13
You assessed a 45 yr. old's vital signs. Which requires immediate attention?
A. Blood pressure of 123/80
B. Heart rate of 78
C. Temp of 99F
D. Respiratory rate of 30/min
The charge nurse is reinforcing with a newly hired LPN what the Standard precautions are. What ques would state that she has a good understanding of what?
What is hand washing, using PPE, patient care & cough etiquette?
During the flight or fight response, what happens to the client's parasympathetic and sympathetic systems?
What are epinephrine and norepinephrine?
Answer Rationale:
The Human Body in Health and Illness pg. 274
Interventions are established during what phase
What is the planning phase?
Answer Rationale:
Interventions are established during the planning phase FON 7th edition pg 86
Where does most of the reabsorption of water and solutes happen during the formation of urine?
What is Proximal Convoluted Tubule
Answer Rationale:
The Human Body in Health and Illness pg 463-64
When using the SBAR communication tool, how would the nurse give a shift change report?
What is Situation: Clearly and briefly describe the current situation. Background: Provide clear, relevant background information on the patient. Assessment: State your professional conclusion based on the situation and background.
How to document a normal pulse?
A. 3+
B. 2+
C. 1+
D. 4+
What are the longer, lower-pitched sound known as the S1 or “lubb.”
What are the tricuspid and bicuspid valves closing?
What part of the heart receives non-oxygenated blood that has been pumped to all parts of the body and then returns?
What is the Right atrium?
Answer Rationale:
The Human body in Health and Illness pg 314
Where does the LPN look to find their scope of practice to determine if they can give IV medications in the state of Idaho?
What is the Nurse Practice Act
Answer Rationale:
The nurse practice act is a set of laws that define and limit the scope of nursing practice FON 7th Ed pg 25-26
What is the order of the techniques used in abdominal assessment?
FON Chap 13
The patient reports severe abdominal pain. What type of assessment should the nurse perform?
What is a focused assessment
FON chapter 13
The medical term for urination?
What is a Micturition?
ATI Chap 7
What is Nursing judgment, Caring, Communication, Professionalism, and Leadership
What are the concepts upon which the PN program is built?
When assessing a client's apical pulse, where would the new nurse place her stethoscope?
What is the intercostal space at the midclavicular line on the left side
Rationale: This is the correct place to auscultate the apical pulse FON 7th Ed pg. 295
What is the purpose of a physical assessment?
Is to collect objective and subjective data to identify health patterns and evaluate responses to interventions.
FON Chap 13
When performing a respiratory assessment, you auscultate wet, popping sounds at the inspiratory phase of each respiratory cycle. These sounds are best identified as.
What are crackles
Chap 13 228-29
What are most of the DNA and genetic information is stored within the following:
What is the Nucleus
Chapter 3 AP
What hormone is secreted by the posterior pituitary gland and works as an anti-diuretic?
What is ADH?
ATI - Urinary
When assessing the client which artery is used to determine circulation to the leg or cardiac arrest
What is the femoral artery?
Used to determine circulation to the leg, cardiac arrest
What the femoral artery
A decrease in blood pressure occurs when a patient changes from a reclining or flat position to an upright position, such as sitting or standing
What is orthostatic hypotension?
Labored respirations, presence of crackles in the lungs, weight gain, peripheral edema, coughing, increased blood pressure and heart rate, jugular vein distension (JVD), and bounding pulse
What is fluid volume excess?
The nurse pulls the pinna down and back when giving ear drops
What is a child < three years of age?
The usual rate for adults is 12 - 20
What is a normal respiration rate?
This is critical in preventing the spread of infection.
What is handwashing?
Which care is focused on the provision of comfort to the person who is approaching death. While hospice will assist with funeral planning as needed, it is not the focus of care
Who is Hospice Care?
When caring for a client who recently had a stroke and is now suffering from acute dysphagia, scrambled eggs, cottage cheese, pudding, and sliced bananas are forms of what altered diet?
What is a mechanically altered diet?
While the LPN was doing her shift change assessment, she noticed that the client might have RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection). She notes that RSV is very contagious. How is RSV transmitted?
What is droplet transmission?
Rationale: It can spread through the droplets released into the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes or if you touch a contaminated surface, such as counters or doorknobs (where it can live for hours). It can also spread through direct contact (kissing a child's face with RSV, for example).
A charge nurse is reinforcing teaching to a new client and her husband. How would she educate them on taking her blood pressure at home?
What is placing her arm at the level of her heart?
Turn tile
Free 50 points given
This person improved hygiene, record keeping, improved diets, and the intro to new medical equipment during the Crimean War. Who was this person?
Who is Florence Nightingale?
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