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NSG 3100 Exam 2 Practice Questions and Answers 2023-2024 | NCLEX Exam Graded A+ 1 / 2
10/28/2022
NSG 3100 Exam 2 Practice NCLEX Questions
Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
- A nurse notes a patient has abnormal vital signs. What action by the nurse is best?
A Document the findings.B Notify the provider.C Compare with prior readings.D Retake the vital signs in 15 minutes.
- A patient returned from a procedure and has vital sign measurements ordered every hour. The patient’s
blood pressure has dropped from 132/82 mm Hg an hour ago to 90/66 mm Hg. What priority action by the nurse is most appropriate?A Take the vital signs again in another hour.B Document the findings in the patient’s chart.C Have another nurse recheck the vital signs.D Plan to take the vital signs more often.
- A nurse is told in the hand-off report that a patient is afebrile. What assessment finding correlates with
this statement?A Blood pressure 152/98 mm Hg B Oral temperature 98.4 F (36.8 C) C Apical pulse 82 beats/min D Oral temperature 100.8 F (38.2 C)
- A nurse is caring for a patient who has an elevated temperature. The nurse plans to help the patient regain
a normal temperature through conduction. What technique does the nurse use?A Placing a cooling fan in the patient’s room B Putting ice packs in the patient’s axillae C Spraying the patient with a fine mist of water D Turning the temperature down in the room
- A nurse is going to take an oral temperature on a patient who has just consumed a cup of coffee. What
action by the nurse is best?A Have the patient drink room temperature water.B Return in 30 minutes to take the patient’s temperature.C Take the patient’s temperature rectally instead.D Document that temperature is unable to be obtained.
- A nurse observes a student taking an adult patient’s tympanic temperature. What action by the student
requires the nurse to intervene?A Student washes hands prior to patient contact.B Student pulls the pinna of the patient’s ear down and back.C Student explains the procedure to the patient.D Student pulls the pinna of the patient’s ear up and back.
- A nurse assesses a patient’s radial pulse rate to be 110 beats/min and regular. What action by the nurse is
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best?A Assess the patient for causes of tachycardia.
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