NCLEX-RN

NCLEX-RN Review Study Guide

9. What is the most common cause of chronic pancreatitis? ____________________________ 10. When part of the bowel telescopes into another part, this is known as ____________________________. 11. Irritable bowel syndrome is usually ____________________________ disease or ____________________________colitis. 12. What is the best way to help prevent the spread of viral Hepatitis? ____________________________ 13. What medications are known to irritate the gastrointestinal system and increase risk of bleeding? ____________________________ and ____________________________ 14. Pernicious anemia results from a deficiency of the intrinsic factor, which helps the absorption of what vitamin? ____________________________ 15. What are some recommendations a nurse can give hernia patients to help reduce the effects of the disease? ____________________________, ____________________________, and ____________________________ 16. Redness and pruritus of the palms of the hands can be indicative of what GI disturbance? ____________________________ 5.5 Respiratory Disorder 1. Where in the respiratory system does the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide occur? ____________________________ 2. Emphysema is a type of ____________________________ obstructive ____________________________ disease that is progressive. 3. People who have COPD depend on ____________________________ drive to stimulate respiration. 4. What oxygen adjunct would be used to deliver 15 liters per minute of oxygen? ____________________________ 5. The ventilator mode in which the ventilator does most of the work for the patient is the ____________________________ control mode. 6. Positive end expiratory pressure is known as ____________________________, and adds extra pressure on the exhalation phase of a patient’s respirations. 7. ____________________________support adds extra pressure in the inhalation phase of a patient’s respirations. 8. Which disease process is characterized by non-compliance of the lungs during ventilation, and may result in ventilator dependent respiratory failure and death? ____________________________ 9. Asthma is a reactive airway disease. Name three things that can precipitate an asthma attack. ____________________________, ____________________________, and ____________________________ 10. A patient who has a bronchoscopy is at risk for ____________________________ when coming out of anesthesia, so airway is a priority for these patients. 11. The volume of air that a patient receives with each normal breath is called the ____________________________. 12. When there is air in the thoracic cavity that causes lung deflation, this is called a ____________________________. 13. Signs of a pneumothorax include dyspnea, ____________________________ deviation, tugging,

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