CRNE Exam Prep - Question List

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201. A client has been discharged, and while housekeeping is cleaning the room they find a yellow pill on the room floor. They bring it you, as you were the nurse who discharged the client. When you review the client’s chart, the pill is identified as Lasix (furosemide), a medication the client normally received in the morning. What should you do?
  1. Throw the pill away and forget about the incident.
  2. Fill out a medication incident/error report and inform the doctor.
  3. Ask the housekeeping staff to throw the pill away.
  4. Assume the pill must have been dropped by another nurse who worked the previous morning. I couldn’t have been you.
202. Susan works part time as a Registered Nurse and also has a business, providing massage therapy, which she runs out of her home. One day, you hear her telling one of her clients that she could provide massage therapy to help a shoulder injury once the client is discharged from hospital. What should you say to Susan?
  1. “How much do you charge for a massage?”
  2. “Telling your clients about your massage therapy business is a conflict of interest.”
  3. “Why don’t you offer massage services while you are at work?”
  4. “Wow. What a neat job. Why don’t you do it full time?”
203. A client’s doctor writes an order for a laxative to relieve constipation. The doctor’s order states, “enema prn”. What should you as the nurse do?
  1. Check to see what types of enemas there are on-hand in the medication room and choose one.
  2. Ask the client what type of enema and at what time of day they would prefer to receive it.
  3. Ignore the order, as it is an incomplete order.
  4. Ask the doctor to clarify the order, to include the type and frequency of the enema.
204. You are working in the ER when a highly intoxicated client is brought in by ambulance. The client is aggressive verbally, swears at you, then stumbles off the stretcher, trying to swing at you with his fists. What should you do?
  1. Call for assistance, while backing a safe distance away from the client.
  2. Subdue the client forcibly and claim self defense.
  3. Leave the ER and go to the admission desk and have someone call 911.
  4. Yell at the client, telling him to lie back down or you will call the police.
205. A church minister approaches the nurse who is caring for a member of his congregation. He asks the nurse about the client’s diagnosis. What is the nurse’s most appropriate response to his inquiry?
  1. Ask him if he has spoken with the client regarding this matter.
  2. Tell him the diagnosis. After all, he is the client’s spiritual support.
  3. Tell him it is none of his business.
  4. Advise him he must ask the doctor for the diagnosis.

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