NCLEX Client Needs practice spans the exam's four major categories safe/effective care, health promotion, psychosocial integrity, and physiological integrity.
The nurse is caring for a patient with the following lab values: Creatinine 2.5 mg/dL, WBC 11,000 cells/mL, and Hemoglobin 12 g/dL. Based on this information, which of the following ordered tests/treatments would the nurse question?
Which of the following patients is at risk for depression?
In planning care for the patient with ulcerative colitis, the nurse identifies which nursing diagnosis as a priority?
The nurse is assessing a client who is 2 hours post-operative from a total knee replacement. Which finding requires notification of the physician?
What are low-risk complementary/alternative therapies in nursing practice?
The nurse overhears the patient care assistant (PCA) speaking harshly to a client with dementia. The charge nurse should:
A 45-year-old patient came into the ER complaining of shortness of breath along with a productive cough of green sputum that has continued for 3 months. He tells you that he smokes a pack of cigarettes a day, eats ice cream with every meal, and that his father and grandfather had COPD. Which factors put this patient at increased risk for developing COPD? (Select all that apply.)
The nurse is performing an initial assessment on a client who has just been told that a pregnancy test is positive. Which assessment finding indicates that the client is at risk for preterm labor?
The nurse teaches the staff that standard precautions should be used when providing care for which type of patient?
The nurse has given instructions on pursed-lip breathing to a client with COPD. Which statement by the client would indicate effective teaching?
Nurse Melai reviews the results of the CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) analysis of a client suspected of having meningitis. Which of the following results would confirm bacterial meningitis?
The nurse is providing dietary instructions for a client with iron-deficiency anemia. Which food is a poor source of iron?
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.