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Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Exam Prep - Question List

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16. What characteristics would the NP most likely assess in a patient with reduced Renal Reserve (early stages of renal disease)?
  1. Elevated BUN (blood, urea, nitrogen) lab value.
  2. Mild anemia and hypertension
  3. Terminal uremia
  4. Nocturia
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17. The NP is taking care of a Hispanic patient who has a large family. She pulls in extra chairs and lets the patient know what times where multiple family members would be allowed. She gets the patient water without ice. The NP is showing what professional caring quality?
  1. Clinical inquiry
  2. Systems thinking
  3. Caring practice
  4. Response to diversity
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18. A patient has returned after a lengthy abdominal surgery. The NP enters the room to assess the patient and observes the patient forcefully coughing without using anything to protect her abdomen. The NP would teach the patient to use an abdominal pillow over her abdomen when coughing to avoid the post operative complication of:
  1. Atelectasis
  2. Dehiscence
  3. Tension pneumothorax
  4. Paralytic ileus
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19. You are working in the emergency room when a 45 year old male comes in with signs and symptoms of acute renal failure. What is the most accurate measure of renal function?
  1. glomerular filtration rate
  2. urea
  3. creatinine
  4. urine output
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20. The NP is working with a nursing assistant who has recently successfully completed her orientation. What would be an appropriate task to delegate to the nursing assistant?
  1. Take the first two sets of vital signs for a patient receiving their first unit of packed red blood cells.
  2. Collect information about a new patient.
  3. Ambulate a patient who had a lumbar fusion surgery yesterday.
  4. Teach a patient with diabetes how to use a Glucometer.
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