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N300 EXAM 2: PANCREATIC CANCER EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED UPDATE 2025/2026
Terms in this set (12)
The nurse is assessing a 1. A yellow haze is a sign of a toxic level of
client with digoxin, with the client seeing through the
complaints of vague yellow haze. Seeing a yellow haze is not the
upper abdominal pain same as the client being jaundiced. In jaundice,
that is worse at night the skin and sclera are yellow, signs of
but is relieved by pancre- atic cancer
sitting up and leaning **2. The abdominal pain is often made worse
forward. Which by eating and lying supine in clients
assessment question diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas.
should the nurse ask 3. The client would not know these terms, and
next? the HCP would be the one to check these
laboratory values.
4. Clients diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas lose
1. "Have you
weight, not gain weight.
noticed a yellow haze
when you look at
things?" TEST-TAKING HINT: The test taker could arrive
2. "Does the pain get at the correct answer by correlating words in
worse when you eat a the stem of the question and words in the
meal or snack?" answer options—the abdomen with eating and
3. "Have you had your pain with pain.
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checked recently?"
4. "How much weight
have you gained
since you saw the
HCP?"
1. Tube feedings are collaborative
The nurse caring for a interventions, but the stem did not say the
client diagnosed with client had a feed- ing tube.
cancer of the 2. This is an independent intervention.
pancreas writes the 3. Assessment is an independent
collab- orative intervention and the first step in the nursing
problem of "altered process. No one should have to tell the
nutrition." Which nurse to assess the client.
intervention should the **4. A collaborative intervention would be to
nurse include in the refer to the nutrition expert, the dietitian.
plan of care?
TEST-TAKING HINT: The key word in the stem is
1. Continuous feedings "collaborative." which means another health-
via PEG tube. care discipline must be involved. Only options
2. Have the family "1" and "4" involve other
bring in foods from members of the health-care team. The test
home. taker could elimi- nate distracter "1" by
3. Assess for food rereading the stem and realizing that the
preferences. stem did not say the client had a feeding
4. Refer to the dietitian. tube.
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