Psychosocial Integrity NCLEX-RN SET 1

The nurse is preparing a woman from India for the surgical procedure. The woman tells the nurse that before going to OT, she wants to pray. The appropriate response from the nurse should be:

A 35-year old man with Cancer is clinically distressed. The nurse is trying to make the patient comfortable. Which of the following statement made by the nurse is not helpful:

In a hospital, the nurse enters the room of a woman under the care and tells her that she has some bad news about her husband. The nurse told the woman that her husband was critically injured and died in a car crash. Hearing the sad news, the woman started crying. Which of the following statement by the nurse is not appropriate:

During the routine assessment of a 65-year old man suffering congestive heart failure, the nurse notices that the breathing cycle of the patient is deeper, faster, and gradually slowing and temporally stopping. The nurse recognizes the abnormal pattern of breathing as:

After several months of treatment for cancer, a 56-year-old woman shows signs and symptoms of nearing to the final days of her life. Knowing that her death is imminent, the woman becomes very angry. The angry emotional response of the woman is which of the Kubler-Ross stages:

While examining the arm of a 72-year old woman with dementia in the presence of caregivers, the nurse saw bruises and imprints on her arm, and when asked about the injury, there was a fear on the woman’s face, and she failed to give a satisfying answer. The priority action of the nurse should be:

While interviewing the patients in the OPD, the nurse saw a 27-year-old man pacing the floor. Which of the following should be the priority action of the nurse:

The nurse has developed a close relationship with a 32-year old man recovering from a car accident and would be soon discharged. The man asked the nurse out for dinner on Valentine’s Day. The appropriate response of the nurse would be:

A 62-years-old critically patient with chest pain admitted in the hospital. On assessing the patient, which of the following symptoms will the nurse recognizes as the sign of heart attack:

A 32-year-old adult is recovering from drug abuse. The nurse is teaching him how to ignore drugs. Which of the following statement by the patient shows that he needs further instructions:

A 65-year old man with advanced lung cancer and dying asks the nurse if he should choose the hospice care. Which of the following statement is an appropriate answer by the nurse:

The husband of a 65-year-old woman with Alzheimer tells the nurse that in the early evening when there is less light in the house, my wife is fully confused. The behavior of the woman indicates which of the following symptom to the nurse:

The nurse is preparing a 45-year-old man for an appendectomy. Which of the following statement by the elderly man indicates that he has not fully understood about the surgery:

When entering the inpatient room of a 52-year old Indian woman who is ready for discharge after the knee replacement surgery, the nurse saw family members airing their own views about the living arrangement of the woman. Which of the following statement by the nurse is appropriate in solving the issue among family members:

The nurse is using the Mini-mental state examination to measure the cognitive impairments in a 73-year-old man. Which of the following score indicates to the nurse that the elderly man has mild impairments that need some assistance, support, and supervision:

A 56-old Muslim woman critically injured and profusely bleeding in an accident is brought to the emergency department. Her life is in danger, and she needs an immediate blood transfusion, but the woman refuses and tells the nurse that she should wait for her husband. Which of the following should be the priority action of the nurse:

A 72-year-old terminally ill cancer patient under hospice care is dying. The family wants chemotherapy, but the doctor and the nurse disagree with the family member’s opinion. The patient has not made any Advance Care directive. In the absence of Advance Care directive, which of the following action by the doctor is not appropriate:

The doctor has recommended Clozapine to an African descent patient with schizophrenia. On assessment by the nurse, which of the following Absolute neutrophil count, will the nurse recognize that Clozapine is not a risk to the patient:

The nurse is caring for a 72-year-old woman who has trouble hearing. The nurse is teaching family members the right way to communicate with the elderly woman. Which of the following approaches instructed by the nurse is appropriate when talking the elderly woman:

A 32-year old woman with a black eye and under pain arrives in the hospital with her husband. When the nurse asked the woman about the injury, she looked scared, but the husband told the nurse that the woman slipped from the stairs and hurt herself. The priority action of the nurse would be: