NU176 Geriatric Nursing Exam 1 Questions with 100

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NU176 Geriatric Nursing Exam 1 Questions with 100 % Correct Answers (Latest 2025 / 2026) – Galen College Of Nursing

• What is a nurse's priority in caring for a dying patient

Ans: pain meds

• You are planning a staff education conference about IADL; what activity

from the box below should the nurse perform.

Ans: shopping, preparing meals, doing housework, taking meds

• You teaching an older client who has arthritis about interventions to

improve sexual functions; which of the following statement by the client needs further teaching?

Ans: I should apply an ice pack on my affected joint before sexual activity.

• You are working in ED you caring for a psych client with dehydration,

which client the nurse identifies as the most likely underlyingg condition.

Ans: client who has 8.2% a1c and tingling in their toes

• You providing health education for a client who has a chronic venous stasis

wound which of the following instruction should the nurse include. Ans:

refrain from crossing your legs, ankles

• You caring for older client female which of the following findings make the

nurse for further question their client regarding possible infection of HIV

Ans: 6 vaginal yeast infections in the last 12 months.

• you caring for an older client who has HIV which of the following action by

the nurse is bolded most effective to prevent exposure

Ans: the nurse need to wear gloves

• You working on a clinic caring for a 65 years old; during a routine visit, the

client report having multiple sex partners in the last year and their concern they may be HIV positive which of the following action by the nurse is appropriate

Ans: ask them any signs and symptoms they been experiencing.

• You working in a public health clinic a geriatric client who has been

receiving medication tx for HIV for 2 years the client said to the nurse that 1 / 2

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the dr say my cd4 count today was normal is that good, which of the following response is appropriate by the nurse.

Ans: count normal because the medication was working

• You conducted a staff education about geriatric syndromes; which factors from

the box below should the nurse include as an example of geriatric syndrome?

Ans: frailty,deliruim, pressure ulcer, urinary incontinence

• You are caring for a client with AIDS and being admitted to the unit; which of

the following actions by the nurse is appropriate?

Ans: Use of standard precautions

• You are providing care for a hospice client who is in the last stage of dying

process; the client has a pressure ulcer on the sacrum and family member tell the nurse they would like a specialist to consult the ulcer; when the nurse discuss this with the client, the client state they would like to have their wound look at by someone, which of the following action should the nurse take next?

Ans: tell the family the wound care specialist will be consulted.

• You are planning a health education about elderly abuse, which of the

following should the nurse include?

Ans: the client who has hx of alzheimer's

• Nursing planning intervention for a client who is recently a widow and

experiencing a withdrawal stage of adjustment to widowhood which of the following action is most appropriate for the nurse to take?Ans: encourage the client to assist the support group/ and give them guidance on how to find a support group.

• Nurse being trained in hospice care which of the following intervention by the

nurse is most compatible with their goals of end-of-life care for the client?

Ans: Assist client and family member to continue to engage in activity to enjoy

together.

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