In the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) exam test plan,
client needs form the organizing framework of the exam with questions in four categories: safe and effective care environment, health promotion and maintenance, psychosocial integrity, and physiologic integrity. Certain processes are then integrated throughout the categories of client needs. Which process is integrated into all client need categories?
a. Teaching/learning
b. Health promotion
c. Infection control
d. Pharmacology
On the basis of changes effective with the April 2010 test plan, candidates who take the NCLEX-RN exam:
a. will have to answer more than 75 questions to be 95 certain that they are above the passing standard.
b. will be required to submit a 100-word essay on an important nursing topic to evaluate safe nursing practice.
c. should study and take practice examinations written at the application and analysis level to ensure that they can meet the higher standards of nursing care and health care delivery.
d. will have additional time to complete the examination because most questions will be prepared in the alternate format, thereby requiring critical thinking.
A candidate who is taking the NCLEX-RN exam received only 75 questions before the test was stopped.
She called her professor and stated, I passed. I had to answer only 75 questions. The professor correctly responds by saying:
a. You are now officially licensed; you answered the more difficult questions correctly.
b. It is possible to receive only 75 questions and not be successful; however, we will keep a positive attitude.
c. If you were given only 75 questions, you will have to retest because this is not enough to determine competency.
d. You must have been extremely close to the passing standard because the computer shut off.
A patient is brought to the unit with mediastinal chest tubes with no fluctuation in the water seal chamber; arterial blood gas results reveal pH, 7.55; CO2, 55; HCO, 28 mEq/L, and O2, 98.
Carotid artery pulsation is visible with the head of the bed elevated and the use of tangential lighting. The first action of the nurse is to:
The above question represents which level of Bloom's taxonomy?
a. Knowledge
b. Comprehension
c. Application
d. Analysis
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