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N300 EXAM 2: GALLBLADDER DISORDERS EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED UPDATE 2025/2026
Terms in this set (12)
The client is four (4) 1. After abdominal surgery, it is not uncommon for
hours postoperative bowel sounds to be absent.
open cholecystectomy. 2. This is a normal amount and color of drainage.
Which data would 3. The minimum urine output is 30 mL/hr.
warrant immediate
**4. Refusing to turn, deep breathe, and cough
intervention by the
puts the client at risk for pneumonia. This client
nurse?
needs immediate intervention to pre- vent
complications.
1. Absent bowel
sounds in all four (4) TEST-TAKING HINT: The test taker should
quadrants. recognize normal data such as the normal urine
2. The T-tube with 60 output and normal data for postopera- tive
mL of green drainage. clients. The test taker should apply basic
3. Urine output of 100 mL in concepts when answering questions.
the past three Normal or expected outcomes do not
(3) hours. require action.
4. Refusal to turn,
deep breathe, and
cough.
The client two (2) hours **1. A heating pad should be applied for 15 to 20
postoperative minutes to assist the migration of the CO2 used
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laparoscopic to insufflate the abdomen.
cholecystectomy is 2. Morphine sulfate would not affect the etiology of the
complaining of severe pain.
pain in the right 3. The surgeon would not order an x-ray for this
shoulder. Which nursing condition.
intervention 4. There is no indication that an injury
should the nurse imple- occurred during surgery. A sling would not
ment? benefit the migration of the CO2.
1. Apply a heating TEST-TAKING HINT: The test taker must under- stand
pad to the abdomen for laparoscopic surgery to be
15 to 20 minutes. able to answer this question. Option "4" could
2. Administer be eliminated because of the "injured during
morphine sulfate surgery" phrase that is making an assumption.
intravenously after diluting
with saline.
3. Contact the surgeon
for an order to x-ray the
right shoulder.
4. Apply a sling to the
right arm that was
injured in surgery.
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