NR 224 - Exam 1 Recap.docx
The exam was a 1 hour and 10 mins with 45 questions. They have three select all that apply and two fill in the blank
... [Show More] questions (Medical Calculations).
The Med Calculation questions (I forgot the exact wording but it was something similar like this): What would be the amount in tablespoons that a patient would have to take 30 ML of Milk of Magnesia every 6 hours as needed? Round the number to the nearest tenth.
A nurse is taking care of an infant who weights 7.3 kg. What is the infant’s weight in pounds? Round to the nearest tenth.
The Select All questions (I am not sure of the exact wording):
1. What are possible risk factors of someone who is suffering from hypertension. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY (from the answer choices provided)
2. A nurse is taking care of a 36-year-old female who is experiencing pain. What could be possible actions made by the patient that can cause the nurse to investigate further? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.
3. What are the following characteristics that are measured by taking a patient’s radial pulse? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.
Multiple Choice Questions from the ones that I can recall.
- You need to know the normal vital signs of an adult
o One question asked what are the normal respirations for an adult
o One question asked what is the normal range of heart rate for an adult
o One question what is the normal vital signs of an older adult (the answer choices had a variety of vital signs, you have to select the best fit)
o Question: What a nurse would do if a patient had a lower round of vital signs from the prior vital signs that were done an hour ago? I just remember the answer was the one that had apical pulse in it
o Question: What type of temperature is easily accessible without minimal position of the patient?
- You need to know the medication class of where medications that treat fever belongs in (if medications that are fever reducers are in the medication class of antipyretic, antiemetic, or etc. )
- It was a question that asked of which following does the NAP (the personnel) needs further education from the nurse (choose one answer from the following)
- Know Orthostatic hypotension (the question provides a scenario of a patient feeling woozy when standing up after being in the bed for a long time).
- Understand the concept of what would be the best action made by a nurse when (2 questions)
o What a nurse should do when a NAP measures a patient’s blood pressure 92/52? (the answer choices were the nurse should manually retake the blood pressure and assess the patient, making the NAP to take the blood pressure again, asking the patient of why their blood pressure was low, and I forgot the last choice but it was not a plausible choice).
o What a nurse should do to make a patient who was bedridden for 4 days to be mobile (the answer choices were like making the patient to wear a gait belt only when he need to use the restroom and put him back to bed, dangle the patient’s legs on the edge of their bed while in sitting to get reinstill blood flow, carry him, or put in him a wheelchair.
- Heat Loss
o What a nurse would do to regulate temperature in a newborn? The answer was like put on a cap on the infant’s head.
o Know the difference between convection, conduction, and radiation
- Infection Process
o Know the definition of the Convalescence stage of the infection process
o A question asked on If a nurse comes from a patient room’s who had airborne/droplet infection, what is the first PPE equipment that she will remove off first?
o What would the best possible protection from treating a patient who has Clostridum Diff? (I think the question was expecting of you to know what type precaution that C. diff falls under and what PPE equipment would be a nurse would wear)
o A nurse insert an intravenous infusion vaginally into the patient during the assessment. The infusion spark of the intravenous alarm to go off. What protected measures should the nurse follow?
o Which of the following shows that the patient family are taking precaution to reduce infection (from the answer choices)?
o A patient just gotten diagnosed with colon cancer and doing chemotherapy. What type of precaution would he be treated under (from the answer choices)?
o A nurse just informed a patient’s family that their family member is in protective isolation. What statement (from the answer choices) that the nurse should also say to the family to see that they understand the isolation that the family member was in?
- Critical thinking
o These were questions from quizlet that I remember viewing before the exam that were on the exam:
▪ A nursing instructor needs to evaluate students’ abilities to synthesize data and identify relationships between nursing diagnoses. Which learning assignment is suited best for the instructor needs? Concept mapping
▪ Which action by the nursing student demonstrates the best critical skill?
Actively participate in clinical experiences.
o If a nurse is using an electronic source to research about a medication before given to her patient, what component of critical thinking is she using?
o Know Basic, Commitment, Complex (I do know if this apart of Chapter 15 or 16).
- Nursing process and Assessment:
o Know the evaluation of nursing process
o Know implementation of nursing process
o Select from the answer choices of what is an open-ended question.
o If a nurse wants to know the patient’s work and home surroundings, what type of assessment tool should they use?
o What question would a nurse asked from the following to a patient who suffering from yeast?
o What clinical decision made by the nurse would be best to treat a patient who has purulent drainage from an older dressing, red, and place of pain is tender? [Show Less]