NCLEX Client Needs practice spans the exam's four major categories safe/effective care, health promotion, psychosocial integrity, and physiological integrity.
Your patient, who is in a community psychiatric program, shows up at your home peeping through your kitchen window. You also noticed the patient the previous day at the grocery store and at the hairdresser. You believe he is stalking you. What should you do?
An angry patient is in the community room. She picks up a chair and uses it to hit another patient on the head. When you enter the community room, what should your first response be to the patient holding the chair?
The nurse evaluates the ability of a hepatitis B-positive mother to provide safe bottle-feeding to her newborn during postpartum hospitalization. Which maternal action best exemplifies the mother's knowledge of potential disease transmission to the newborn?
All of the following are standard therapy options for cancer treatment EXCEPT:
A student nurse is observing a registered nurse perform a neurological assessment. When the nurse asks the client to "stick out his tongue," the nurse is assessing the function of which cranial nerve?
A toddler is brought to the emergency department with sudden onset of abdominal pain, vomiting, and stools that look like red currant jelly. To confirm intussusception, the suspected cause of these findings, the nurse would expect the physician to order which diagnostic study?
A client is admitted with sickle cell crisis and splenic sequestration. Upon assessing the client, the nurse would expect to find signs of hypovolemia, including which finding?
A nurse is interviewing a preoperative patient who seems anxious and flustered. Which nursing response is inappropriate?
A client has a tentative diagnosis of HELLP syndrome. Which laboratory finding is associated with HELLP syndrome?
When assessing a breastfeeding mother and infant, which finding would be inappropriate, that is, NOT a normal or reassuring sign to look for during the feeding?
Which of the following are appropriate nursing interventions for a postoperative patient who underwent a mastectomy with axillary lymph node dissection? (Select all that apply)
When the nurse and client construct a no-suicide contract, the preferable wording would be:
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.