NCLEX-RN Practice Question Challenge!

Correct Answer: 3

1: Assessment: Outcome not priority, not significant for MRI
2: Assessment: Outcome not priority, not significant for MRI
3: CORRECT | Assessment: Outcome desired and priority. MRI contraindicated with metal prosthesis or implanted metal
4: Assessment: Outcome not priority. Defoliant used in war, not significant for MRI

NCLEX-RN Practice Question Challenge!

Correct Answer: 4

1: Assessment: Outcome expected. Minimal acceptable level
2: Assessment: Outcome expected. Continuous high-pitched musical sounds expected with asthma
3: Assessment: Outcome expected. Usually present with severe asthma
4: CORRECT | Assessment: Outcome not expected. Indicates severe respiratory acidosis, accumulation of CO₂ is a danger sign of impending respiratory failure and cardiac arrest

NCLEX-RN Practice Question Challenge!

Correct Answer: 3

1: Implementation: Outcome desired, but not priority. Should be in high Fowler's position during and 30 minutes after eating. Not first action, assessment should be done first
2: Assessment: Outcome desired, but not priority. Should be assessed, but not first action
3: CORRECT | Assessment: Outcome desired and priority, place tongue depressor to back of throat. First priority is to determine risk for aspiration
4: Implementation: Outcome not desired, should keep independent

NCLEX-RN Practice Question Challenge!

Correct Answer: 4

1: Assessment: Outcome expected. Irregular menstrual periods common during the first year or two after menarche
2: Assessment: Outcome expected. Age-appropriate and common
3: Assessment: Outcome expected. Temporary, age-appropriate phenomenon
4: CORRECT | Assessment: Outcome not expected. One of the earliest changes of puberty, occurs from ages 9-13

NCLEX-RN Practice Question Challenge!

Correct Answer: 1

1: CORRECT | Assessment: Outcome priority, parathyroid gland may be injured. This causes hormone levels to decrease, which causes a decrease in blood calcium. Early signs include tingling of fingers, toes and lips
2: Assessment: Outcome desired but not priority. If blood glucose ↓ 50 mg/dL, symptoms include anxiety & weakness
3: Assessment: Outcome desired but not priority. If potassium ↓ 3.5 mEq/L, symptoms include vomiting & dysrhythmias
4: Assessment: Outcome desired but not priority. If sodium ↓ 135 mEq/L, symptoms include muscle cramps & hemiparesis

NCLEX-RN Practice Question Challenge!

Correct Answer: 3

1: Assessment: Outcome desired but not priority, cyanosis is a late sign of respiratory distress
2: Assessment: Outcome not desired, priority is to assess respiratory status. Blood pressure may change due to decreased arterial oxygen levels, priority is to correct underlying problem
3: CORRECT | Assessment: Outcome priority, will give early and clearest indication of respiratory status. Will hear changes with narrowed airways, fluid in alveoli or pneumothorax
4: Assessment: Outcome desired but not priority, late indication of respiratory distress. Intercostal muscles are accessory muscles

Book Recommendations | Disease Processes!

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment & Management of Clinical Problems
ISBN: 0323036902 | 978-0323036900

I still have this textbook and I will NEVER sell it. It was a required textbook during my nursing program. Yet as each semester passed throughout the program, I fell in love with it. This textbook covers every and any disease process and nursing intervention you could think of! When my husband had his heart attack, I read the Acute Coronary Syndrome chapter and the Post Operative Heart Surgery chapter. When he started his cardiac medications while in the hospital, I brought this book with me and read how each medication would interact with his new cardiac circulation. This book is extremely large but if you purchase any book for your nursing program... you need this book. I didn't like carrying around the larger volume textbook, so I opted for the 2-in-1 (double volume text) book option instead. This allowed me to carry the chapters I needed and not the entire, huge book.

NCLEX-RN Practice Question Challenge!

Correct Answer: 2

1: Implementation: Outcome desired but not priority, needs airway first. It will be difficult to ventilate without neck extension first
2: CORRECT | Implementation: Outcome desired and priority, provides patent airway. Call for help, place patient in supine position and then check breath sounds. Use hemostat to open airway
3: Implementation: Outcome desired but not priority, needs airway first
4: Implementation: Outcome desired but not priority, needs airway first

Book Recommendations | Intravenous Medications!

Now that I'm a nurse and my license is on the line, I need to know the IV injection rates for the medications I give on a daily basis. My floor provides books and resources but to get to them is time consuming. From Zofran to Dilaudid, there are different injection times for each medication. This book provides me with that information and then some. What's lame is the binding and the thin paper. The packaging just isn't "carry" friendly, more of a desk reference. But, in the end it was worth the price!

2011 Intravenous Medications
ISBN: 0323057926 | 978-0323057929

NCLEX-RN Practice Question Challenge!

Correct Answer: 4

1: Implementation: Outcome not desired, "passing the buck." Mental status of roommate unknown
2: Implementation: Outcome not desired, patient confused
3: Implementation: Outcome not desired, "passing the buck." Must check identification
4: CORRECT | Implementation: Outcome desired, only way to positively identify patient

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Book Recommendations | Passing Nursing School Exams!

Saunders Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam
ISBN: 1416062025 | 978-1416062028

If you can't understand your professor's frame of mind, exam explanations or answer choices on exams, then you need this book - Saunders Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam! I love this book, it really helped me pass my final semester in nursing school. That was a tough semester for me and I just wasn't "getting" the material and bombing the exams. I turned to this book and it explained what my nursing exams wanted out of me (ADPIE, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Priority) and how to eliminate the incorrect options. With those skills in hand, you can focus on the correct answer and excel in the course. I wish I would have learned about this book when I first started nursing school, I would have a way higher GPA by now. This book even provides you with a CD that gives you with practice questions, so you can practice your new learned skills. It goes into great detail, explaining what the question was looking for and why you got it wrong or right.