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NGN NCLEX PN EXAM
• The normal levels of Hemotocrit:
Answer:
Male 42-50% Female 40-48%
• The Specific Gravity of Urine:
Answer:
1.010 - 1.030
• The normal range for a PTT:
Answer:
20-45 seconds
• pH:
Answer:
7.35 - 7.45
• CO2:
Answer:
35-45 mmHg
• HCO3:
Answer:
22-27 mEq/L
20. O2:
Answer:
80-100 mmHg
• pH less than 7.35:
Answer:
Acidosis
• pH greater than 7.45: Alkalosis
Answer:
• CO2 opposite of pH:
Answer:
Respiratory
• ABC:
Answer:
Airway Breathing Circulation
• Abduction:
Answer:
Movement AWAY from the midline
• Abraded:
Answer:
Scraped
• Acetonuria:
Answer:
Acetone in the urine
• Adduction: Movement TOWARDS the midline
• Expected Outcomes:
Answer:
- What is the expected outcome?
- What is the best action for the expected outcome?
• Question?:
Answer:
- Read the stem one time.
- Read answer choices for clues to topic.
- Reword question using clues from answer choices.
• Answers?:
Answer:
- Read the stem.
- Identify the topic.
- Read the answer choices.
- Identify the nursing concept contained in the answer choices.
• Real World:
Answer:
- Don't use real-world experience to answer NCLEX-PN questions.
- You have the time, the staff, and the equipment.
- Take care of the client FIRST.
- The NCLEX-PN exam test the nurse's judgement.
• Maslow:
Answer:
- Recognize that answers are both physical and psychosocial.
- Eliminate psychosocial answers. (ex. anorexia, depression, bipolar disease,
substance abuse, bulimia, alcohol abuse, and suicide)
- "Does this make sense?"
- Apply ABCs.
• Key features of US style communication in nursing:
Answer:
- Validate the client's experience and feelings by responding to the client verbally.
- Direct the client's behavior to promote comfort and well-being. Do not patronize
- Maintain eye contact with the client, especially during conversation. Lean
Ask questions that relate directly to what the clients says.
or reject the client by imposing a value judgement.
forward to face the client. Nod, smile, or frown to demonstrate agreement or disagreement while listening.
• "This is inappropriate behavior. Please close your robe and return to
your room.":
Answer:
This statement by the LPN/LVN responds to the client's behavior, sets limits on the behavior, and directs the client toward more appropriate social behavior in the milieu. This statement rejects the client's behavior, not the client as a person.
• The LPN/LVN is caring for a client who states, "I just want to die." The LPN/LVN should examine the client's medical record for which of the
following documents?:
Answer:
Advance directives
• A newly admitted client with a history of convulsions suddenly says to
the LPN/LVN, "I hear drums." What should the LPN/LVN do FIRST?:
Answer:
Insert an oral airway in the client.
• How does the LPN?LVN determine the relationship of one hospital department
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