Pancreatitis: NCLEX Style Questions

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Pancreatitis NCLEX Style Quiz

Test your knowledge on pancreatitis with this comprehensive NCLEX-style quiz designed specifically for nursing students and professionals. This quiz features a variety of questions that will help you reinforce your understanding of pancreatitis and its management.

Key features of the quiz:

10 challenging questions
Multiple choice and checkbox formats
Instant feedback for each question

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by HealingNurse423

What client problem is a priority for the client diagnosed with acute pancreatitis?

Risk for fluid volume deficit

Imbalanced nutrition: less than requirements

Alteration in comfort

Knowledge deficit related to recent diagnosis of acute pancreatitis

The nurse should assess for an important early indicator of acute pancreatitis, which is a prolonged and elevated level of:

Serum calcium

Serum amylase

Serum bilirubin

Serum lipase

A patient who received treatment for pancreatitis is being discharged home. You're providing diet teaching to the patient. Which statement by the patient requires immediate re-education about the diet restrictions?

It will be hard but I will eat a diet low in fat and avoid greasy foods."

"It is very important I limit my alcohol intake to no more than 2-3 glasses of wine a week."

"I will concentrate on eating complex carbohydrates rather than refined carbohydrates."

"I will purchase foods that are high in protein."

A major symptom of pancreatitis that brings the patient to medical care is:

Severe abdominal pain

Fever

Jaundice

Mental agitation

While assisting a patient with chronic pancreatitis to the bathroom, you note the patient's stool to be oily/greasy in appearance. In your documentation you note this as:

Melana

Currant

Hematochezia

Steatorrhea

A patient with acute pancreatitis is reporting excessive thirst, excessive voiding, and blurred vision. What is the nurse’s priority action?

Reassure the patient this is normal with pancreatitis

Provide a dark and calm environment

Assist the patient with drinking a simple sugar drink like orange juice

Check the patient's blood glucose

Nursing measures for pain relief for pancreatitis include:

Encouraging bed rest to decrease metabolic rate

Teaching the patient about the correlation between alcohol intake and pain

Withholding oral feedings to limit the release of secretin

All of the above

Pancreatitis is commonly characterized by:

Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy

Edema and inflammation

Pleural effusion

Sepsis

The client with an acute exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis has a nasogastric tube. Which interventions should the nurse implement? Select ALL that apply.

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