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- Topic 1: Safe and Effective Care Environment: This section of the exam measures skills of Registered Nurses and covers how to manage client care while maintaining a safe and effective healthcare environment. It includes Management of Care, which assesses coordination with interdisciplinary teams, delegation, legal responsibilities, and resource utilization. It also includes Safety and Infection Control, focusing on minimizing risk to clients and staff through infection prevention, safe equipment use, emergency procedures, and addressing environmental hazards.
- Topic 2: Health Promotion and Maintenance: This section of the exam measures skills of Clinical Nurse Educators and covers strategies to support wellness and prevent disease. It includes client education across age groups, prenatal and postnatal care, and community health promotion. Nurses are tested on performing screenings, recognizing risk factors, and adapting education based on learning needs and readiness.
- Topic 3: Psychosocial Integrity: This section of the exam measures skills of Mental Health Nurses and covers emotional, mental, and social well-being. It includes assessing psychological needs, substance use, abuse, grief, and coping challenges. The nurse must use therapeutic communication, recognize psychosocial stressors, and support clients with behavioral disorders while maintaining cultural sensitivity.
- Topic 4: Physiological Integrity: This section of the exam measures skills of Acute Care Nurses and focuses on maintaining physical health through four subdomains. Basic Care and Comfort assesses support with daily living tasks and comfort measures. Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies covers safe medication administration and client monitoring. Reduction of Risk Potential evaluates the ability to detect and prevent complications. Physiological Adaptation tests management of clients with acute, chronic, or life-threatening health conditions using clinical interventions.
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A mother frantically calls the emergency room (ER) asking what to do about her 3-year-old girl who was found eating pills out of a bottle in the medicine cabinet. The ER nurse tells the mother to:
(A) Before giving any emetic, the substance ingested must be known. (B) At least 8 oz of water should be administered along with ipecac syrup to increase volume in the stomach and facilitate vomiting. (C) Water alone will not induce vomiting. An emetic is necessary to facilitate vomiting. (D) Vomiting should never be induced in an unconscious client because of the risk of aspiration.
A depressed client is seen at the mental health center for follow-up after an attempted suicide 1 week ago. She has taken phenelzine sulfate (Nardil), a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor, for 7 straight days. She states that she is not feeling any better. The nurse explains that the drug must accumulate to an effective level before symptoms are totally relieved. Symptom relief is expected to occur within:
(A) This answer is incorrect. It can take up to 1 month for therapeutic effect of the medication. (B) This answer is correct. Because MAO inhibitors are slow to act, it takes 2--4 weeks before improvement of symptoms is noted. (C) This answer is incorrect. It can take up to 1 month for therapeutic effect of the medication. (D) This answer is incorrect. Therapeutic effects of the medication are noted within 1 month of drug therapy.
The health team needs to realize that the compulsive concern with cleanliness that a client with severe anxiety exhibits is most likely an attempt to:
(A) These behaviors are attempts to relieve anxiety. (B) Avoidance is not a pattern in the obsessive client. (C) Although these behaviors may seem to manipulate others, that is not the purpose behind the activity. (D) Inflated self-esteem is not a characteristic of the severely anxious client.
The FHR pattern in a laboring client begins to show early decelerations. The nurse would best respond by:
(A) Early decelerations are reassuring and do not warrant notification of the physician. (B) Because early decelerations is a reassuring pattern, it would not be necessary to change the client's position. (C) Early decelerations warrant the continuation of close FHR monitoring to distinguish them from more ominous signs. (D) O2 is not warranted in this situation, but it is warranted in situations involving variable and/or late decelerations.
A physician's order reads: Administer KCl 10% oral solution 1.5 mL. The KCl bottle reads 20 mEq/15 mL.
What dosage should the nurse administer to the infant?
(A) This answer is a miscalculation. (B) This answer is a miscalculation. (C) 1.33 mEq = 1 mL, then 1.5 mL X=1.99, or 2 mEq. (D) Information is adequate for calculation.
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