2025-05-28 NCLEX Exam Question: The nurse is administering an antibiotic for a patient through a central venous line.
When the medication is finished, the nurse will use which of the following types of syringe for the flush?
Select an Answer: 3 ml syringe 10 ml syringe 5 ml syringe 1 ml syringe
Rationale:
Central venous catheters need to be flushed with at least a 10 ml syringe. The smaller syringes have greater pressure than the larger syringes.
2025-05-27 NCLEX Exam Question: The nurse is aware that which of the following psychotic features are characteristics of schizophrenia?
Select an Answer: delusions and disorganized behavior disorganized speech and disorganized behavior hallucinations and sexual dysfunction
hallucinations and delusions
Rationale:
Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, and disorganized thoughts are symptoms of schizophrenia.
Disorganized behavior and sexual dysfunction are not symptoms of schizophrenia.
2025-05-26 NCLEX Exam Question: The registered nurse has an assignment of four patients on the maternity unit. The nurse is spending the majority of the shift going above and beyond with care for one patient. Another of the nurse's patients is constantly using the call bell in search for her nurse.
The nurse is not serving which ethical principle to her patients by focusing her day on only one patient?
Select an Answer: Accountability Justice Non-maleficence Beneficence
Rationale:
Justice is fairness. The nurse must be fair when distributing care.
Patient care must be fair, just, and equally distributed in a way so that the nurse does not focus primarily on one single patient (unless an out of the ordinary situation in which a patient's well-being is compromised).
2025-05-25 NCLEX Exam Question: The nurse is aware that which of the following medications is contraindicated for a patient to take with Linezolid (Zyvox)?
Select an Answer: Ambien (Zolpidem) Lunesta (Eszopiclone) Lexapro (Escitalopram) Trazodone
Rationale:
Taking Lexapro (Escitalopram) and Linezolid (Zyvox) together increases risk of serotonin syndrome and has synergistic effects.
2025-05-24 NCLEX Exam Question: An elderly client is admitted with the diagnosis of organic brain syndrome, dementia type.
The most effective approach to orient this client would be to:
Select an Answer: show him his room and wait until later for more orientation. give him a complete orientation to the unit and all its rules. ask him questions to see if he understands the orientation. limit the orientation to small, specific amounts of essential information.
Rationale:
The orientation should be limited to small, specific amounts of essential information because the client's immediate recall is impaired.
Questioning him may further confuse him and add to his anxiety.
