Progressive Care Nursing PCCN Exam Prep - Question List

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36. An Ethical Principle that involves performing actions that are for the purpose of benefiting another person is called:
  1. Informed consent
  2. Bioethics
  3. Confidentiality
  4. Beneficence
37. The nurse is caring for an elderly client who is prescribed with oral pain medications. The nurse would particularly monitor the signs of adverse reactions of the drugs for the following reasons except:
  1. Decreased number of nerve cells
  2. Decreased drug clearance by the kidneys
  3. Increased number of nephrons
  4. Decreased blood flow to the brain
38. A woman presented in medical OPD with epigastric pain, heart burn and dysphagia. On further inquiry, she also has earache and chronic cough, especially at night. What is she suffering from?
  1. Gastroesophageal reflux disease
  2. Pancreatitis
  3. Respiratory tract infection
  4. None of the above
39. A 10-year-old girl comes to the emergency department crying after being hit in the face by a baseball. The nurse will assess the pain on a scale of:
  1. 1-5 scale
  2. 1-10 scale
  3. 1-15 scale
  4. 1-20 scale
40. A 25-year-old patient presented to surgical OPD. Acute appendicitis was the likely diagnosis. Which other disease can mimic acute appendicitis among the following?
  1. Ulcerative colitis
  2. Acute flare up of Crohn's disease
  3. Acute pancreatitis
  4. Acute cholecystitis

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