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Clinical Nurse Specialist CNS Adult Practice Test

Category - AACN Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice Test

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A nurse is caring for a client admitted due to bowel obstruction and a nasogastric tube is about to be inserted, as ordered. The nurse knows that nasogastric tube is inserted to:
  1. Remove stomach fluid contents and gas
  2. Remove contents and gas in the small and large bowel
  3. Control bleeding
  4. Remove bile
Explanation
Answer: A - The nasogastric tube empties the stomach of fluids and gas. Intestinal tubes remove contents in the small and large bowels
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