The acronym CRRN stand for in the context of nursing certification?
What is: Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse.
The capital of Belgium?
What is: Brussels
Patients receiving tube feedings via gastrostomy tube are at risk for this common complication.
What is: Aspiration
A camel stores in its hump
What is: Fat
The acronym CIWA stands for
What is: Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment
The MOST appropriate initial intervention for a T5 spinal cord injury patient exhibiting a sudden onset of diaphoresis, nasal congestion, flushing above the level of injury, bradycardia, pounding headache, and hypertension?
1. Determine if there is bladder distention
2. Measure the client's blood pressure
3. Place the client in the Sims' position
4. Remove constrictive clothing
What is: Examine for bladder distension or fecal impaction?
The chemical symbol for the element gold.
What is: Au
A serious side effect of heparin?
What is: Thrombocytopenia
When MySpace first launched, how many top friends could you have displayed on your page?
What is: 8
The main goal of treatment for acute glomerulonephritis.
1. Encourage activity.
2. Encourage high protein intake.
3. Maintain fluid balance.
4. Teach intermittent urinary catheterization.
What is: Maintain fluid balance
The lobe of the brain that predominates cognitive process.
1.Frontal
2. Parietal
3. Temporal
4. Occipital
What is: Frontal lobe
Name two ancient civilizations that existed along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is: Mesopotamia (Sumerians & Babylonians)
Using Maslow's hierarchy of human needs to develop a patient's plan of care, which of the following needs is the most difficult to assess?
1. Safety
2. Love and belonging
3. Self-esteem
4. Self-actualization
What is: Self-actualization?
Person that discovered penicillin
What is: Alexander Fleming
The most common, preventable complication of abdominal surgery.
1. Atelectasis.
2. Fluid and electrolyte imbalance.
3. Thrombophlebitis.
4. Urinary retention.
What is: Atelectasis
Type of massage therapy that is usually done with rhythmic, broad strokes beginning softly and increasing in intensity to relax the person and identify areas of tightness or pain.
1. Triger point
2. Effleurage
3. Petrissage
4. Deep Tissue
What is: Effleurage
Famous for turkey raising, this state sells the most Thanksgiving turkeys across America.
What is: Minnesota
A client with hypoparathyroidism is suspected of having hypocalcemia. Upon assessment, the nurse notes which clinical symptom would indicate hypocalcemia.
What is: Twitching
The month in which was Julius Caesar stabbed?
What is: March
For a patient with Crohn's disease, the medical-surgical nurse recommends a diet that is:
1. high in fiber, and low in protein and calories.
2. high in potassium.
3. low in fiber, and high in protein and calories.
4. low in potassium.
What is: Low in fiber, and high in protein and calories
The inability to recognize objects, people, sounds, and shapes
1. Apraxia
2. Aphasia
3. Agnosia
4. Asemia
What is: Agnosia
Galao is a coffee drink originating in this country.
What is: Portugal
The nurse analyzes the electrolyte test results for a client and notes that the potassium level is 2.2 mEq/L (2.2 mmol/L). Based on the laboratory result, which ECG pattern is not expected?
What is: Absent P waves
Is thought to be one of the last plays Shakespeare wrote alone?
The Tempest
Which physiological response is often associated with surgery-related stress?
1. Bronchial constriction.
2. Decreased cortisol levels.
3. Peripheral vasodilation.
4. Sodium and water retention.
What is: Sodium and water retention