Docsity
Log inSign up
Docsity
Prepare for your exams
Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity

Earn points to download
Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan

Guidelines and tips
Guidelines and tips
Sell on Docsity
Sell on Docsity
Log inSign up

Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity

Find documents

Prepare for your exams with the study notes shared by other students like you on Docsity

Search Store documents

The best documents sold by students who completed their studies

Search through all study resources
Docsity AINEW

Summarize your documents, ask them questions, convert them into quizzes and concept maps

Explore questions

Clear up your doubts by reading the answers to questions asked by your fellow students

Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan

Share documents
download point icon20 Points

For each uploaded document

Answer questions
download point icon5 Points

For each given answer (max 1 per day)

All the ways to get free points
Get points immediately

Choose a premium plan with all the points you need

Study Opportunities

Choose your next study program

Get in touch with the best universities in the world. Search through thousands of universities and official partners

Community

Ask the community

Ask the community for help and clear up your study doubts

University Rankings

Discover the best universities in your country according to Docsity users

Free resources

Our save-the-student-ebooks!

Download our free guides on studying techniques, anxiety management strategies, and thesis advice from Docsity tutors

From our blog

Exams and Study
Go to the blog

PCT NHA Exam GRADED A QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS) 100% CORRECT| 2024/ 2025, Exams of Nursing

Norfolk State University (NSU)Nursing

1. What is an example of a prosthetic device? ✓ Answer: Dentures 2. What should you do if a patient goes into ventricular fibrillation while you are doing an EKG? ✓ Answer: Alert the physician/provider (emergency response system) 3. Name one procedure that requires using sterile technique: ✓ Answer: Inserting an indwelling catheter 4. What is a contraindication for capillary puncture on fingers/hands? ✓ Answer: Edema 5. What is the first sign of skin breakdown? ✓ Answer: Skin discoloration 6. What are the handling requirements of stools specimens for ova and parasites?

Typology: Exams

2023/2024

Available from 10/17/2024

tizian-kylan
tizian-kylan 🇺🇸

2.7

(21)

3.8K documents

1 / 18

Toggle sidebar

This page cannot be seen from the preview

Don't miss anything!

bg1
PCT NHA Exam GRADED A QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS) 100%
CORRECT| 2024/ 2025 LATEST UPDATE!!!
1. What is an example of a prosthetic device?
✓ Answer: Dentures
2. What should you do if a patient goes into ventricular fibrillation while you are doing an
EKG?
✓ Answer: Alert the physician/provider (emergency response system)
3. Name one procedure that requires using sterile technique:
✓ Answer: Inserting an indwelling catheter
4. What is a contraindication for capillary puncture on fingers/hands?
✓ Answer: Edema
5. What is the first sign of skin breakdown?
✓ Answer: Skin discoloration
6. What are the handling requirements of stools specimens for ova and parasites?
pf3
pf4
pf5
pf8
pf9
pfa
pfd
pfe
pff
pf12

Partial preview of the text

Download PCT NHA Exam GRADED A QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS) 100% CORRECT| 2024/ 2025 and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity!

PCT NHA Exam GRADED A QUESTIONS

AND VERIFIED ANSWERS) 100%

CORRECT| 2024 / 2025 LATEST UPDATE!!!

  1. What is an example of a prosthetic device? ✓ Answer: Dentures
  2. What should you do if a patient goes into ventricular fibrillation while you are doing an EKG? ✓ Answer: Alert the physician/provider (emergency response system)
  3. Name one procedure that requires using sterile technique: ✓ Answer: Inserting an indwelling catheter
  4. What is a contraindication for capillary puncture on fingers/hands? ✓ Answer: Edema
  5. What is the first sign of skin breakdown? ✓ Answer: Skin discoloration
  6. What are the handling requirements of stools specimens for ova and parasites?

✓ Answer: Take immediately to the lab

  1. What is used to sterilize surgical instruments? ✓ Answer: Autoclave
  2. What is the regular/normal paper speed for an EKG machine? ✓ Answer: 25 mm/second
  3. What does the ST segment on an EKG represent? ✓ Answer: Time between ventricular contraction and beginning of recovery
  4. What should you do to correct a wondering baseline artifact on the EKG tracing? ✓ Answer: Check electrodes and wires for proper connection (with the skin)
  5. What is hematuria associated with? ✓ Answer: Cystitis (bladder infection, most common in women)
  6. Does a patient have to fast for a glucose tolerance test (GTT)?
  1. receiving chemotherapy ✓ Answer:
  2. Reverse isolation are ✓ Answer: procedures designed to protect a patient from infectious organisms carried by staff, patients or other patients. The organisms are typically spread by droplets in the air or on equipment. All staff should wash their hands prior to entering the room.
  3. Protective Isolation ✓ Answer: aims to protect an immunocompromised patient who is at high risk of acquiring micro-organisms from either the environment or from other patients, staff or visitors.
  4. What should you use and do when emptying an indwelling catheter? ✓ Answer: Empty the contents into the graduated cylinder and record the findings As its name indicates, it is a glass cylinder with marks along the side similar to those on a measuring cup. .... The volume is read by looking at the top of the fluid from the side and reading the mark on the glass from the lowest portion of the lens-like meniscus of the liquid.
  5. What type of isolation precautions would a patient with influenza be on? ✓ Answer: Droplet precautions
  6. What type of isolation precautions would a patient with clostridium difficile be on?

✓ Answer: Contact

  1. How often should a patient who has restraint orders be checked? ✓ Answer: Every 2 hours(so skin can be assessed
  2. What is the first thing a patient care technician should do when preparing to perform phlebotomy procedure on a patient? ✓ Answer: (before verifying patient's identity) Introduce him/herself and explain who they are and what they are there to do
  3. How is a 24 hour urine collected? ✓ Answer: Discard the first urine and collect all the rest (if you miss a urine just mark that on the container)
  4. What determines whether a child gets a capillary puncture in the heel or finger? ✓ Answer: Age
  5. How would you ease a 9 - year old's fears about a blood draw? ✓ Answer: Explain the procedure and potential discomfort
  6. Which PPE should you remove first?

✓ Answer: Light blue

  1. What should Bilirubin specimens be protected from? ✓ Answer: light
  2. What is the purpose of using sequential compression devices? ✓ Answer: To prevent blood clots
  3. When caring for a patient who is being fed through a feeding tube/NG tube how should the patient be positioned in bed? ✓ Answer: Head of bed elevated at least 30 degrees (semi-fowlers) to prevent aspiration
  4. When preparing to insert an indwelling urinary catheter a patient care technician should ✓ Answer: open the package and then apply the sterile gloves
  5. Using an incentive spirometer post-op prevents what type of complications? ✓ Answer: Respiratory/Pulmonary
  6. What should you do when weighing a patient who uses a walker or has balance issues? ✓ Answer: Place the walker over the scale
  1. What is a term used to describe moving a part of the body away from the body? ✓ Answer: Abduction
  2. What is a term used to describe moving part of the body toward the body? ✓ Answer: Adduction
  3. When removing dentures for care which dentures do you remove first? ✓ Answer: Upper dentures
  4. What should you do if a patient reports sharp pain going up the arm while you are performing a venipuncture? ✓ Answer: Release tourniquet, remove needle, apply pressure
  5. When should baseline vital signs be taken on a patient? ✓ Answer: when a patient is admitted to a facility
  6. Describe IV infiltration: ✓ Answer: is when the IV catheter has migrated out of the vein and the fluid is going into the interstitial tissues causing swelling at the IV site.
  1. T/F A patient who's had a cerebrovascular accident might require adaptive devices to perform ADLs ✓ Answer: True
  2. Passive range of motion (PROM) is assisting a patient to move their joints. What is an example of passive range of motion exercise? ✓ Answer: Dorsiflexion of patient's foot
  3. When assisting a patient walk using a gait belt where should the Patient Care Tech stand/walk? ✓ Answer: Behind the patient
  4. What should the patient care technician do if she/he gets a needle stick? ✓ Answer: Wash with soap and water, report to supervisor, and fill out incident report (document the incident)
  5. Describe Atrial Flutter: ✓ Answer: saw tooth appearance between R's, can be regular or irregular
  6. Can an unlabeled specimen be processed? ✓ Answer: No
  1. What should you do if you notice patient vomiting coffee ground like emesis? ✓ Answer: Notify the nurse
  2. What's one of the thing that the patient care technician does prior to performing a capillary puncture? ✓ Answer: Select the lancet size
  3. What should a patient care technician do to prevent skin breakdown on a patient who is at risk? ✓ Answer: Reposition the patient every 2 hrs.
  4. What should the patient care technician do if she/he notices bruises on an elder patient? ✓ Answer: Notify the nurse
  5. You are caring for a patient who has cancer and the family asks you when she is going to get better. For therapeutic communication you should respond with ✓ Answer: "it sounds like you are concerned about your mother's condition"
  6. What should you do if you need to do CPR and do not have a face shield? ✓ Answer: Do Hands only CPR

✓ Answer: Decreased strength and mobility

  1. What could cause skin breakdown in a patient with an ostomy? ✓ Answer: Stool leakage under the appliance
  2. When entering the room of a new patient what should the patient care technician do first before doing anything to the patient? ✓ Answer: Verify the patient's identification band
  3. What 2 identifiers should the patient care technician use to ensure that they have the correct patient? ✓ Answer: Name and Date of Birth
  4. Name one task within the scope of practice of a patient care technician: ✓ Answer: Checking a patient's fasting blood sugar
  5. What causes somatic tremor on an EKG? ✓ Answer: Patient muscle movement
  6. Where would you dispose used PPE that appears clean? ✓ Answer: Biohazard bag (red)
  1. What is PROM? Passive Range of Motion? Give an example: ✓ Answer: Assisting a patient to move their joints
  2. How do you open a sterile package? ✓ Answer: You do not need any kind of gloves to open a sterile field You open sterile package without gloves of any kind
  3. What type of consent is needed for phlebotomy? ✓ Answer: Implied consent
  4. Clean stoma with ✓ Answer: soap and water
  5. If stool is around stoma use ✓ Answer: toilet paper to wipe
  6. What can be used to clean inanimate objects? ✓ Answer: Disinfectants
  7. What should you do when transferring a patient from a bed to a wheelchair?
  1. Which body mechanics should a patient care technician use when transferring a patient from a stretcher to a bed? ✓ Answer: Having a wide base support (feet wide apart).
  2. After completing rounds on patients which action must the patient care technician take for patient safety measures? ✓ Answer: Place the call light within patient's reach
  3. When drawing a CBC and Blood Cultures which color tube would you draw first? ✓ Answer: Yellow
  4. What is an example of implied consent? ✓ Answer: The patient extends their arm for the draw
  5. How much of a sterile field is not considered sterile? ✓ Answer: 1 inch border (make sure nothing touches it)
  6. What does OSHA require to be included on a Safety Data Sheet (SDS)? ✓ Answer: First Aid Measures
  1. What should you do if you notice suspicious bruising on a patient? ✓ Answer: Notify the nurse
  2. What type of isolation precautions would you use if a patient has scabies? ✓ Answer: Contact
  3. Where would the green electrode go for a Holter monitor? ✓ Answer: Right chest below the rib cage
  4. What term would you use to describe thick green drainage? ✓ Answer: Purulent
  5. What is the normal BP range for an adult? ✓ Answer: 90/60 TO 120/
  6. Which form requires a witness signatures and detailed tracking of a specimen? ✓ Answer: Chain of Custody
  7. What does electrical interference look like on a rhythm strip? ✓ Answer: Thick, even squiggely lines