Clinical nursing worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

While an automated external defibrillator (AED) is analysing the rhythm or delivering a shock, what must everyone do?

  1. AGive rescue breaths
  2. BStand clear and not touch the patient
  3. CHold the patient's hand
  4. DKeep doing chest compressions without pausing
2.Easy

How should nursing records be written?

  1. AUsing personal abbreviations that only the nurse who wrote them understands
  2. BAt the end of the week, written from memory in one go to save time
  3. CIn pencil so that mistakes can be rubbed out
  4. DAccurately and as soon as possible after the event, with date, time and signature
3.Easy

Graduated compression stockings and early mobilisation are used after surgery mainly to prevent:

  1. AWound infection
  2. BPressure ulcers of the heel only
  3. CUrinary retention
  4. DVenous thromboembolism
4.Medium

Which group of symptoms suggests hypercalcaemia?

  1. AWeight gain, feeling cold and a slow pulse
  2. BTingling lips, muscle cramps and spasms of the hands and feet
  3. CSweating, tremor and sudden hunger
  4. DThirst, constipation, confusion and abdominal pain
5.Medium

A patient who injects drugs has a fever, a new heart murmur and small dark lines under the nails. What is the likely diagnosis?

  1. AInfective endocarditis
  2. BMyocardial infarction
  3. CPericarditis
  4. DRheumatic fever
6.Medium

Which oxygen device delivers a precise, fixed concentration of oxygen?

  1. ANasal cannula
  2. BSimple face mask
  3. CVenturi mask
  4. DNon-rebreathe mask
7.Hard

Why is hypokalaemia particularly dangerous in a patient taking digoxin?

  1. ALow potassium makes digoxin work too slowly
  2. BLow potassium increases the risk of digoxin toxicity
  3. CLow potassium stops digoxin from being absorbed
  4. DDigoxin raises potassium to dangerous levels when it is already low
8.Hard

A patient who used sildenafil the day before develops chest pain. Why is glyceryl trinitrate (GTN, nitroglycerin) normally avoided?

  1. AThe combination can cause a severe, dangerous fall in blood pressure
  2. BThe combination causes severe hyperkalaemia
  3. CSildenafil stops GTN from being absorbed under the tongue at all
  4. DGTN makes sildenafil toxic to the liver

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Stand clear and not touch the patient
  2. 2. D · Accurately and as soon as possible after the event, with date, time and signature
  3. 3. D · Venous thromboembolism
  4. 4. D · Thirst, constipation, confusion and abdominal pain
  5. 5. A · Infective endocarditis
  6. 6. C · Venturi mask
  7. 7. B · Low potassium increases the risk of digoxin toxicity
  8. 8. A · The combination can cause a severe, dangerous fall in blood pressure

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