Exam 46: Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease

When assessing a patient for modifiable risk factors for chronic kidney disease, the nurse should ask which question?

Which intervention should be included in the nursing plan of care for a patient with prerenal acute kidney injury?

Which concept should the nurse keep in mind when developing a plan of care for the patient with intrinsic acute kidney injury (AKI)?

The nursing plan of care for a patient with stage 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD) includes:

Which findings would the nurse utilize to identify the level of acute kidney injury in a patient?

The urinalysis of a patient with acute interstitial nephritis is likely to have which characteristics?

Which laboratory value alerts the nurse that a patient is in stage 3 of chronic kidney disease (CKD)?

While admitting a patient with acute kidney injury, the patient reports to the nurse that he has had no urinary output during the last 24 hours. Which of the following would the nurse record in the medical record?

The nurse should expect to assess which laboratory value in the patient with prerenal acute kidney disease?

Which physician order should the nurse question on a patient with hyperkalemia secondary to chronic kidney disease?

When assessing acute kidney injury in the pediatric population using the pRIFLE criteria, the nurse observes which parameters?

Which finding would alert the nurse that a patient with diabetes may be in the early stages of developing diabetic nephropathy?

When the nurse is assessing the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of a patient, which method is more accurate when the patient's GFR is normal or mildly decreased?

The nurse is performing risk assessments for chronic kidney disease (CKD) at a community health fair. Which concept should guide the assessments?

Which assessment data is the nurse likely to observe in a patient with chronic kidney disease?

Which finding should the nurse expect when assessing the patient with acute kidney injury?

Which response by a patient with chronic kidney disease indicates to the nurse that more teaching about the disease is needed?

When planning care for a patient with heart failure, the nurse keeps in mind that this condition may lead to:

How should the nurse respond when a patient asks how he could have chronic kidney disease (CKD) when he has not had symptoms of the disease?

The nurse assessing a patient with acute interstitial nephritis is most likely to note which findings?