ATI RN
ATI Gastrointestinal System Test Questions
Question 1 of 5
The student nurse is preparing a teaching care plan to help improve nutrition in a patient with achalasia. You include which of the following:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Eating meals while sitting upright helps improve swallowing and prevent complications in patients with achalasia.
Question 2 of 5
Dark, tarry stools indicate bleeding in which location of the GI tract?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Dark, tarry stools indicate bleeding in the upper GI tract.
Question 3 of 5
A patient with chronic alcohol abuse is admitted with liver failure. You closely monitor the patient's blood pressure because of which change that is associated with the liver failure?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Abnormal peripheral vasodilation is a change associated with liver failure that requires close monitoring of the patient's blood pressure.
Question 4 of 5
A 29 y.o. patient has an acute episode of ulcerative colitis. What diagnostic test confirms this diagnosis?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Sigmoidoscopy is the diagnostic test that confirms the diagnosis of an acute episode of ulcerative colitis.
Question 5 of 5
Your patient recently had abdominal surgery and tells you that he feels a popping sensation in his incision during a coughing spell, followed by severe pain. You anticipate an evisceration. Which supplies should you take to his room?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: For a suspected evisceration, sterile saline solution and sterile dressings should be taken to the patient's room to cover the wound and keep it moist.
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