-
Comprehensive practice questions for ATI Med Surg 2025
-
Accurate answers with detailed rationales for deeper learning
-
Focuses on medical-surgical nursing concepts
-
Perfect for nursing students aiming for exam success
-
Builds critical thinking and confidence
Preview
A nurse is caring for a client who experienced a traumatic head injury and has an
intraventricular catheter (Ventriculostomy) for ICP monitoring. The nurse should
monitor the client for which of the following complications related to the
ventriculostomy?:
a. Headache
b. Infection
c. Aphasia
d. Hypertension – – correct ans- -b. Infection
Monitor for infection and use strict asepsis to avoid life-threatening meningitis.
A nurse is providing education to a client who is to undergo an EEG the next day. Which
of the following info should the nurse include in the teaching?
a. “Do not wash your hair the morning of the procedure.”
b. “Try and stay awake most of the night prior to the procedure.”
c. “The procedure will take approximately 15 mins.”
d. “You will need to lie flat for 4 hours after the procedure.” – – correct ans- -b. “Try and
stay awake most of the night prior to the procedure.”
Tell the client to remain awake to provide cranial stress and increase the possibility of
abnormal electrical activity
A nurse is caring for a client who is postprocedural following a lumbar puncture and
reports a throbbing headache when sitting upright. Which of the following actions
should the nurse take? SATA.
a. Use the GCS scale to assess the client
b. Assist the client into a supine position
c. Administer an opioid analgesic
d. Encourage the client to increase PO fluid intake
e. Instruct the client to perform coughing and deep breathing – – correct ans- -B, D
A nurse is caring for a client who has continuous bladder irrigation following a
transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). Which of the following findings should
the nurse report to the provider?
a Output equal to the instilled irrigate
b. Client reports bladder spasms
c. Viscous urinary output with clots
d. Reports of strong urge to urinate – – correct ans- -c. Viscous urinary output with clots
Urine that is bright red with clots is an indication of arterial bleeding.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.