PCC Exam 1 Review Fall 2024

Which of the following best describes a nurse leader?

• Assess the needs of the client in order to best develop a teaching plan.

• Address the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of the client.

• Inspire others by setting an example with positive health, assertive communication, and willingness to improve.

• Coordinate team activities in order to ensure that care is appropriately delivered to each client

What is the purpose of protective isolation?

• To protect health care providers from acquiring an infection

• Protect the patient from infection

• To observe the patient closely

• This is universal procedures to minimize the spread of infection

The textbook provides a beneficial example of skin breakdown to apply a PICOT question. PICOT is used to establish:

• Evidence-based practice

• Contemporary nursing practice

• Patient Centered Care

• Collaboration

Tier 2 of the CDC precaution guidelines include all of the following except:

• Standard precautions

• Contact precautions

• Droplet precautions

• Airborne precautions

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is especially important to you because it helps you to establish:

• Therapeutic Communication

• Priorities

• Advocacy

• Evidence-Based Practice

Your patient was admitted with TB. Based on CDC guidelines, your priority intervention would be to:

• Establish Contact Precautions

• Establish Protective Isolation

• Establish Airborne Precautions

• Run far far away from the hospital

You learned from the “Faces of Sepsis” video that the most important way to avoid sepsis complications is to:

• Detect signs and symptoms of sepsis as soon as possible

• Educate the public better about sepsis

• Put all patients with infections on antibiotics

• Put every patient through a sepsis workup

You received a patient in the ER with a suspected infection of MRSA in the wound in his arm. What is your priority action?

• Therapeutic Communication

• Begin an antibiotic

• Wear a gown when assessing this patient

• Wear a mask when doing patient teaching

Which of the following statements correctly describes the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)?

• Each state uses the same criteria for content covered on the exam

• The exam provides a minimum standard of knowledge for practice

•  Each applicant will be given a series of 300 set questions

• The majority of applicants who take the exam will fail the exam

Based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, which nursing diagnosis should have the highest priority?

• Impaired Mobility

• Deficient Fluid Volume

• Chronic Pain

• Ineffective Breathing Pattern