NCLEX Exam Practice Question of the Week - 5/2/12

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Question: A nurse notes that the physician has updated the orders for a client who had a stroke by changing the medication route from parenteral to oral. Before administering the oral medications, it would be most important for the nurse to assess which cranial nerves?

1. Facial and vagus
2. Trigeminal and vagus
3. Trigeminal and hypoglossal
4. Glossopharyngeal and vagus

NCLEX Exam Practice Question of the Week - 4/25/12

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Question: The client sustains a contusion of the eyeball following a traumatic injury with a blunt object. Which intervention is initiated immediately?

1.  Notify the physician.
2.  Apply ice to the affected eye.
3.  Irrigate the eye with cool water.
4.  Accompany the client to the emergency department.

NCLEX Exam Practice Question of the Week - 4/18/12

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Question: The nurse is preparing to administer spironolactone (Aldactone) to a client. After assessing the client, what data indicate the need to withhold the medication?

1. Potassium level of 5.8 mEq/L
2. Apical pulse rate of 58 beats/min
3. BP of 130/90 mm Hg
4. Urine output of 30 mL/hr

NCLEX Exam Practice Question of the Week - 4/11/12

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Question: An adolescent is hospitalized with multiple internal injuries after an automobile collision. The adolescent is being kept npo and is receiving an IV infusion at 125 mL/hr and an antibiotic reconstituted in 10 mL of normal saline every 6 hours (1 am, 4 pm, 1 pm, 4 am). What is the intake from 7 am to 3 pm?


1. 1000 mL
2. 1010 mL
3. 1020 mL
4. 1030 mL

NCLEX Exam Practice Question of the Week - 4/4/12

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Question: A client was started on oral anticoagulant therapy while hospitalized. The client is now being discharged to home and is intermittently confused. The nurse determines that the client has the best support system for successful anticoagulant therapy monitoring if the client:

1.  Has a home health aide coming to the house for 9 weeks
2.  Was going to stay with a daughter in the daughter’s home indefinitely
3.  Was going to have blood work drawn in the home by a local laboratory
4.  Has a good friend living next door who would take the client to the doctor