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ATI RN MEDICAL SURGICAL NGN EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL
EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+|
||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
A male client with a prostatic stent is preparing for discharge.
What should the nurse ensure the client understands?
a. Ongoing antibiotic therapy is needed for one year
b. The client should not undergo magnetic resonance imaging
c. Increased frequency of assessment for prostatic cancer is
needed
d. The client should not be catheterized through the stent for at
least three months - ANSWERS-d. The client should not be
catheterized through the stent for at least three months
A female client with type 2 diabetes mellitus reports dysuria.
Which assessment finding is most important for the nurse to
report to the healthcare provider?
a. Suprapubic pain and distention
b. Bounding pulse at 100 beats/minute
c. Fingerstick glucose of 300 mg/dL
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d. small vesicular perineal lesions - ANSWERS-c. Fingerstick
glucose of 300 mg/dL
When caring for a client with a percutaneous endoscopic
gastrostomy (PEG) tube, what protocols should the nurse
implement for intermittent feedings?
a. assessing residual amounts once a day
b. Keeping the head of the bed elevated 30 degrees
c. Changing the enteral-feeding bag every 24 hrs
d. Checking the placement of the tube by means of gastric
aspiration
e. Flushing the tube with 50 ml of normal saline solution after
each feeding - ANSWERS-b. Keeping the head of the bed
elevated 30 degrees
d. Checking the placement of the tube by means of gastric
aspiration
e. Flushing the tube with 50 ml of normal saline solution after
each feeding
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The nurse is caring for a client after a transurethral resection of
the prostate (TURP) and determines the client's urinary catheter
is not draining. What should the nurse implement?
a. Reposition the catheter drainage tubing.
b. Encourage the client to drink oral fluids
c. Irrigate the catheter
d. Change drainage unit tubing - ANSWERS-c. Irrigate the
catheter
The nurse is caring for a client with end stage liver disease who is
being assessed for the presence of asterixis. To assess the client
for asterixis, what position should the nurse ask the client to
demonstrate?
a. Extend the left arm laterally with the left palm upward
b. Extend the arm, dorsiflex the wrist, and extend the fingers
c. Extend the arms and hold this position for 30 seconds
d. Extend arms with both legs adducted to shoulder width -
ANSWERS-b. Extend the arm, dorsiflex the wrist, and extend the
fingers
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A Korean-American client, who speaks very little English, is being
discharged following surgery. Which nurse should the nurse
manager assign to provide the discharge instructions for the
client?
a. A graduate registered nurse (RN) with three weeks of
experience.
b. The registered nurse (RN) case-manager for the unit with 1 yrs
experience
c. A "floating" registered nurse (RN) with five years of nursing
experience.
d. An Korean-American practical nurse (PN) with 6 years of
nursing experience - ANSWERS-b. The registered nurse (RN)
case-manager for the unit with 1 yrs experience
A client with a recent history of blood in his stools is scheduled for
a proctosigmoidoscopy. The nurse should implement which
protocols to prepare the client for this procedure? SATA
a. Obtain consent for the procedure
b. Initiate preoperative sedation
c. begin fast the morning of the procedure
ATI RN MEDICAL SURGICAL NGN EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL
EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+|
||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
A male client with a prostatic stent is preparing for discharge.
What should the nurse ensure the client understands?
a. Ongoing antibiotic therapy is needed for one year
b. The client should not undergo magnetic resonance imaging
c. Increased frequency of assessment for prostatic cancer is
needed
d. The client should not be catheterized through the stent for at
least three months - ANSWERS-d. The client should not be
catheterized through the stent for at least three months
A female client with type 2 diabetes mellitus reports dysuria.
Which assessment finding is most important for the nurse to
report to the healthcare provider?
a. Suprapubic pain and distention
b. Bounding pulse at 100 beats/minute
c. Fingerstick glucose of 300 mg/dL
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d. small vesicular perineal lesions - ANSWERS-c. Fingerstick
glucose of 300 mg/dL
When caring for a client with a percutaneous endoscopic
gastrostomy (PEG) tube, what protocols should the nurse
implement for intermittent feedings?
a. assessing residual amounts once a day
b. Keeping the head of the bed elevated 30 degrees
c. Changing the enteral-feeding bag every 24 hrs
d. Checking the placement of the tube by means of gastric
aspiration
e. Flushing the tube with 50 ml of normal saline solution after
each feeding - ANSWERS-b. Keeping the head of the bed
elevated 30 degrees
d. Checking the placement of the tube by means of gastric
aspiration
e. Flushing the tube with 50 ml of normal saline solution after
each feeding
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The nurse is caring for a client after a transurethral resection of
the prostate (TURP) and determines the client's urinary catheter
is not draining. What should the nurse implement?
a. Reposition the catheter drainage tubing.
b. Encourage the client to drink oral fluids
c. Irrigate the catheter
d. Change drainage unit tubing - ANSWERS-c. Irrigate the
catheter
The nurse is caring for a client with end stage liver disease who is
being assessed for the presence of asterixis. To assess the client
for asterixis, what position should the nurse ask the client to
demonstrate?
a. Extend the left arm laterally with the left palm upward
b. Extend the arm, dorsiflex the wrist, and extend the fingers
c. Extend the arms and hold this position for 30 seconds
d. Extend arms with both legs adducted to shoulder width -
ANSWERS-b. Extend the arm, dorsiflex the wrist, and extend the
fingers
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A Korean-American client, who speaks very little English, is being
discharged following surgery. Which nurse should the nurse
manager assign to provide the discharge instructions for the
client?
a. A graduate registered nurse (RN) with three weeks of
experience.
b. The registered nurse (RN) case-manager for the unit with 1 yrs
experience
c. A "floating" registered nurse (RN) with five years of nursing
experience.
d. An Korean-American practical nurse (PN) with 6 years of
nursing experience - ANSWERS-b. The registered nurse (RN)
case-manager for the unit with 1 yrs experience
A client with a recent history of blood in his stools is scheduled for
a proctosigmoidoscopy. The nurse should implement which
protocols to prepare the client for this procedure? SATA
a. Obtain consent for the procedure
b. Initiate preoperative sedation
c. begin fast the morning of the procedure
