Safety & Infection Control
This is the most important action before any patient care.
What is perform hand hygiene?
This patient would be seen first. Chest pain or chronic pain?
What is chest pain?
This is the first step in Clinical Judgment Model.
What is assessing cues?
This is the maximum number of questions you may get during the NCLEX.
What is 150?
This is the correct type of isolation for tuberculosis.
What is airborne precautions?
The nurse should see this patient first: a client receiving a blood transfusion who reports chills and back pain or a client waiting for discharge instructions.
What is the blood transfusion client?
The client has low SpO2 and confusion indicates this problem.
What is hypoxia?
This testing format adjusts the difficulty of questions based on the test-taker’s performance.
What is Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)?
This is the priority when a client falls.
What is assess for injuries?
The nurse should assess this patient first: a post-op day 1 client with HR 118 and BP 90/54 or a client with a temperature of 102°F and WBC 14,000.
What is the client with a HR of 118 and BP 90/54?
This step comes after intervention.
What is evaluating outcomes?
Candidates have this maximum amount of time to complete the NCLEX-RN.
What is 5 hours?
This is the best way to prevent patient identification errors
What is using two patient identifiers?
The nurse should prioritize this patient: a client with sepsis whose BP dropped from 110/70 to 92/58 over 30 minutes or a client with a temperature of 103°F.
Who is the septic client?
Weight gain and edema suggest this problem.
What is excessive fluid retention?
This organization develops and administers the NCLEX exam.
What is the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)?
This is the most effective way to prevent CLABSI (Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection).
What is use sterile technique for line insertion and care?
The nurse should see this patient first: a client receiving a PCA who is difficult to arouse with a respiratory rate of 10 or a client reporting uncontrolled surgical pain.
Who is the PCA client?
After identifying multiple possible problems, deciding that airway compromise is more urgent than pain represents this step.
What is prioritizing hypotheses?
These NGN questions present a patient scenario followed by multiple questions based on the same situation.
What are case studies?