NCLEX Client Needs practice spans the exam's four major categories safe/effective care, health promotion, psychosocial integrity, and physiological integrity.
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The nurse is caring for a client in labor and is monitoring the fetal heart rate patterns. The nurse notes the presence of episodic accelerations on the electronic fetal monitor tracing. Which action is most appropriate?
The nurse is performing an assessment on a pregnant client with a diagnosis of severe preeclampsia. The nurse reviews the assessment findings and determines that which finding is most closely associated with a complication of this diagnosis?
Which nursing diagnosis for a psychiatric client is properly worded (i.e., includes a problem, related factor, and defining characteristics/evidence)?
Your patient is preoccupied with perfection and control, has difficulty relaxing, exhibits rule-conscious behavior, and cannot discard anything. What type of personality disorder does this behavior reflect?
A woman who is at 36 weeks of gestation is having a nonstress test. Which statement indicates her correct understanding of the test?
After completing a second vaginal examination of a client in labor, the nurse-midwife determines that the fetus is in the right occiput anterior position and at (-1) station. Based on these findings, the nurse-midwife knows that the fetal presenting part is:
Following a precipitous delivery, examination of the client's vagina reveals a fourth-degree laceration. Which of the following would be contraindicated when caring for this client?
The nurse is performing discharge teaching on a client with ulcerative colitis who has been placed on a low-residue diet. Which food would need to be eliminated from this client's diet?
Immediately after delivery, the nurse-midwife assesses the neonate's head for signs of molding. Which factor determines the type of molding that occurs?
The nurse is providing postpartum instructions to a client who will be breast-feeding her newborn. The nurse determines that the client has understood the instructions if she makes which statement?
The nurse is assessing a trauma client in the emergency room and notes a penetrating abdominal wound with exposed viscera. The nurse should:
Once you're comfortable with client needs, try a full NCLEX practice test to see how it holds up under timed, mixed-section conditions, or head back to all NCLEX categories.