ATI PN comprehensive predictor
1. What can be delegated to Assistive personnel (AP)?:
- ADLs - bathing - grooming - dressing
- ambulating - feeding (w/o swallow precautions)
- positioning - bed making - specimen collection
- I&O - VS (stable clients
2. A nurse on a med surge unit has recieved change of shift report and will care for 4
clients. Which of the following clients needs will the nurse assign to an AP?
A. Feeding a client who was admitted 24 hours ago with aspiration pneumonia
B. Reinforcing teaching with a client who is learning to walk with a quad cane
C. Reapplying a condom catheter for a client who has urinary incontinence
D. Applying a sterile dressing to a pressure ulcer: C. Reapplying a condom catheter for a
client who has urinary incontinence
3. A nurse is delegating the ambulation of a client who had knee arthroplasty 5 days ago
to an AP. Which of the following info should the nurse share with the AP?
Select all:
A. the roommate is up independently
B. The client ambulates with his slippers on over his antiembolic stockings
C. The client uses a front wheeled walker when ambulating
D. The client had pain meds 30 minutes ago
E. The client is allergic to codeine
F. the client ate 50 % of his breakfast this morning: B. The client ambulates with his
slippers
on over his antiembolic stockings
C. The client uses a front wheeled walker
when ambulating D. The client had pain meds
30 minutes ago
,4. An RN is making assignments for client care to an LPN at the beginning of the shift.
Which of the following assignments should the LPN question? A. Assisting a client who is
24 hr postop to use an incentive spirometer
B. Collecting a clean catch urine specimen from a client who was admitted on the
previous shift
C. providing nasopharyngeal suctioning for a client who has pneumonia
D. Replacing the cartridge and tubing on a PCA pump: D. Replacing the cartridge and
tubing on a PCA pump
5. A nurse is preparing an inservice program about delegation. Which of the following
elements should she identify when presenting the 5 rights of delegation. Select all:
A. Right client
B. Right supervision/evaluation
C. Right direction/communication
D. Right time
E. Right circumstances: B. Right supervision/evaluation
C. Right
direction/communication
E. Right circumstances
6. A nurse manager of a med surge unit is assigning care responsibilities for the oncoming
shift. A client is waiting transfer back to the unit from the PACU following thoracic surgery.
To which staff member should the nurse assign the client?
A. Charge nurse
B. RN
C. LVN
D. AP: B. RN
7. What is the study of conduct and character?: Ethics
8. What are the values and beliefs that guide behavior and decision making?: -
Morals
,ATI PN comprehensive predictor
9. What is the right to make ones own personal decisions, even tho those decisions
might not be in the persons best interest: Autonomy
10. What are positive actions to help others: Beneficience
11. What is an agreement to keep promises: Fidelity
12. What is fairness in care delivery and use of resources: Justice
13. What is avoidance of harm or injury: Non-maleficence
14. A nurse is caring for a client who decides not to have surgery despite significant
blockages in his coronary arteries. The nurse understands that this clients choice is
an example of what principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmalificience: A. Fidelity
15. A nurse offers pain meds to a client who is postop prior to ambulation. The nurse
understands that this aspect of care delivery is an example of which of the following
ethical principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Beneficence: D. Beneficence
16. A nurse is instructing a group of nursing students about the responsibilities involved
with organ donation and procurement. When the nurse explains that all clients waiting
, for a kidney transplant have to meet the same qualifications, the students should
understand that this aspect of care delivery is an example of which ethical principle
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmaleficence: C. Justice
17. A nurse questions a med prescription as too extreme and light of the clients advanced
age and unstable status. The nurse understands that this action is an example of which
ethical principle
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmalificence: D. Nonmalificence
18. Which of the following situations can be identified as an ethical dilemma?
A. A nurse on a med surge unit demonstrates signs of chemical impairment B. A nurse
over hears another nurse telling an older adult client that if he doesn't stay in bed she will
restrain him
C. A family has conflicting feelings about the initiation of enteral tube feedings of
their father who is terminally ill
D. A client who is terminally ill hesitates to name her spouse on her durable power of
attorney form: C. A family has conflicting feelings about the initiation of enteral tube
feedings of their father who is terminally ill
19. Most managers can be categorized as: authoritative, democratic, and
laissez faire
20. makes decisions of the group motivates by coercion
communication occurs down the chain of command
Work output by the staff is usually high-good for crisis situations and bureaucratic
settings: Authoritative
1. What can be delegated to Assistive personnel (AP)?:
- ADLs - bathing - grooming - dressing
- ambulating - feeding (w/o swallow precautions)
- positioning - bed making - specimen collection
- I&O - VS (stable clients
2. A nurse on a med surge unit has recieved change of shift report and will care for 4
clients. Which of the following clients needs will the nurse assign to an AP?
A. Feeding a client who was admitted 24 hours ago with aspiration pneumonia
B. Reinforcing teaching with a client who is learning to walk with a quad cane
C. Reapplying a condom catheter for a client who has urinary incontinence
D. Applying a sterile dressing to a pressure ulcer: C. Reapplying a condom catheter for a
client who has urinary incontinence
3. A nurse is delegating the ambulation of a client who had knee arthroplasty 5 days ago
to an AP. Which of the following info should the nurse share with the AP?
Select all:
A. the roommate is up independently
B. The client ambulates with his slippers on over his antiembolic stockings
C. The client uses a front wheeled walker when ambulating
D. The client had pain meds 30 minutes ago
E. The client is allergic to codeine
F. the client ate 50 % of his breakfast this morning: B. The client ambulates with his
slippers
on over his antiembolic stockings
C. The client uses a front wheeled walker
when ambulating D. The client had pain meds
30 minutes ago
,4. An RN is making assignments for client care to an LPN at the beginning of the shift.
Which of the following assignments should the LPN question? A. Assisting a client who is
24 hr postop to use an incentive spirometer
B. Collecting a clean catch urine specimen from a client who was admitted on the
previous shift
C. providing nasopharyngeal suctioning for a client who has pneumonia
D. Replacing the cartridge and tubing on a PCA pump: D. Replacing the cartridge and
tubing on a PCA pump
5. A nurse is preparing an inservice program about delegation. Which of the following
elements should she identify when presenting the 5 rights of delegation. Select all:
A. Right client
B. Right supervision/evaluation
C. Right direction/communication
D. Right time
E. Right circumstances: B. Right supervision/evaluation
C. Right
direction/communication
E. Right circumstances
6. A nurse manager of a med surge unit is assigning care responsibilities for the oncoming
shift. A client is waiting transfer back to the unit from the PACU following thoracic surgery.
To which staff member should the nurse assign the client?
A. Charge nurse
B. RN
C. LVN
D. AP: B. RN
7. What is the study of conduct and character?: Ethics
8. What are the values and beliefs that guide behavior and decision making?: -
Morals
,ATI PN comprehensive predictor
9. What is the right to make ones own personal decisions, even tho those decisions
might not be in the persons best interest: Autonomy
10. What are positive actions to help others: Beneficience
11. What is an agreement to keep promises: Fidelity
12. What is fairness in care delivery and use of resources: Justice
13. What is avoidance of harm or injury: Non-maleficence
14. A nurse is caring for a client who decides not to have surgery despite significant
blockages in his coronary arteries. The nurse understands that this clients choice is
an example of what principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmalificience: A. Fidelity
15. A nurse offers pain meds to a client who is postop prior to ambulation. The nurse
understands that this aspect of care delivery is an example of which of the following
ethical principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Beneficence: D. Beneficence
16. A nurse is instructing a group of nursing students about the responsibilities involved
with organ donation and procurement. When the nurse explains that all clients waiting
, for a kidney transplant have to meet the same qualifications, the students should
understand that this aspect of care delivery is an example of which ethical principle
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmaleficence: C. Justice
17. A nurse questions a med prescription as too extreme and light of the clients advanced
age and unstable status. The nurse understands that this action is an example of which
ethical principle
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmalificence: D. Nonmalificence
18. Which of the following situations can be identified as an ethical dilemma?
A. A nurse on a med surge unit demonstrates signs of chemical impairment B. A nurse
over hears another nurse telling an older adult client that if he doesn't stay in bed she will
restrain him
C. A family has conflicting feelings about the initiation of enteral tube feedings of
their father who is terminally ill
D. A client who is terminally ill hesitates to name her spouse on her durable power of
attorney form: C. A family has conflicting feelings about the initiation of enteral tube
feedings of their father who is terminally ill
19. Most managers can be categorized as: authoritative, democratic, and
laissez faire
20. makes decisions of the group motivates by coercion
communication occurs down the chain of command
Work output by the staff is usually high-good for crisis situations and bureaucratic
settings: Authoritative
