NCLEX Client Needs practice spans the exam's four major categories safe/effective care, health promotion, psychosocial integrity, and physiological integrity.
The nurse is instructing a patient scheduled for abdominal surgery on the use of a flow-metered incentive spirometer. Which instruction should the nurse include in the teaching plan?
The nurse is assisting a client with diverticulosis to select appropriate foods. Which food should the client avoid?
A client's admission history reveals complaints of fatigue, chronic sore throat, and enlarged lymph nodes in the axilla and neck. Which exam would assist the physician in making a tentative diagnosis of leukemia?
A 5-year-old child has lactose intolerance. The nurse tells the mother that it is necessary to provide which dietary supplement in the child's diet?
Which information should be given to a client who is using a TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) unit?
A client with a total knee replacement has a continuous passive motion (CPM) device applied during the post-operative period. Which statement made by the nurse indicates understanding of the CPM machine?
A nurse is observing a local softball game when one of the players is hit in the nose with a ball. The player's nose is visibly deformed and bleeding. The best way for the nurse to control the bleeding is to:
Which action by the healthcare worker indicates a need for further teaching regarding infection control and standard precautions?
The nurse calculates the IV flow rate for a patient receiving lactated Ringer's solution. The patient is to receive 2000 mL of Lactated Ringer's over 36 hours. The IV infusion set has a drop factor of 15 drops per milliliter. The nurse should set the IV to deliver how many drops per minute?
Nurse Melai is planning for a child to have a roommate during hospitalization. The nurse should realize that a child at this developmental level (school-age girl) will most likely:
The intensive care unit is full, and the emergency room just called in a report on a ventilator-dependent client who is being admitted to the medical-surgical unit. It would be essential that the nurse have which piece of equipment at the client's bedside?
Your patient has just received his sixth outpatient electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment. He tells you that he plans to drive himself home because his wife is working at her part-time job today. What is your best response?
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.