ATI COMPREHENSIVE PREDICTOR EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ATI COMPREHENSIVE
PREDICTOR EXAM
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
APGAR - ✔✔✔✔-Appearance (all pink, pink and
blue, blue (pale)
Pulse (>100, <100, absent)
Grimace (cough, grimace, no response)
Activity (flexed, flaccid, limp)
Respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
Woman in labor (un-reassuring FHR) - ✔✔✔✔-(late
decels, decreased variability, fetal bradycardia, etc)
Turn pt on Left side, give O2, stop pitocin, Increase
IV fluids!
Infant with Spina Bifida - ✔✔✔✔-Prone so that sac
does not rupture
Prolapsed cord - ✔✔✔✔-Knee to chest or
Trendelenburg
oxygen 8 to 10 L
Cleft Lip - ✔✔✔✔-position on back or in infant seat
to prevent trauma to the suture line. while feeding
hold in upright position.
FHR patterns for OB - ✔✔✔✔-Think VEAL CHOP!
V-variable decels; C- cord compression caused
E-early decels; H- head compression caused
A-accels; O-okay, no problem
L- late decels; P- placental insufficiency, can't fill
what to check with pregnancy - ✔✔✔✔-Never check
the monitor or machine as a first action. Always
assess the patient first. Ex.. listen to fetal heart
tones with stethoscope.
Position of the baby by fetal heart sounds - ✔✔✔✔-
Posterior --heard at sides
Anterior---midline by unbilicus and side
Breech- high up in the fundus near umbilicus
Vertex- by the symphysis pubis.
Heroin withdrawal neonate - ✔✔✔✔-irritable, poor
sucking
lead poisoning - ✔✔✔✔-test at 12 months of age
pt with leukemia may have - ✔✔✔✔-epistaxis due to
low platelets
when a pt comes in and is in active labor - ✔✔✔✔-
first action of nurse is to listen to fetal heart
tones/rate
NCLEX answer tips - ✔✔✔✔-choose assessment
first! (assess, collect, auscultate, monitor, palpate)
only choose intervention in an emergency or stress
situation. If the answer has an absolute, discard it.
Give priority to the answers that deal with the
patient's body, not machines, or equipment.
1 tsp - ✔✔✔✔-5 mL
1 oz - ✔✔✔✔-30 mL
1 cup - ✔✔✔✔-8 oz
1 quart - ✔✔✔✔-2 pints
1 pint - ✔✔✔✔-2 cups
1 g (gram) - ✔✔✔✔-1000 mg
1 kg - ✔✔✔✔-2.2 lbs
I lb - ✔✔✔✔-16 oz
centigrade to Fahrenheit conversion - ✔✔✔✔-F=
C+40 multiply 5/9 and subtract 40
C=F+40 multiply 9/5 and subtract 40
birth weight - ✔✔✔✔-doubles by 6 months
triples by 1 year
early sign of cystic fibrosis - ✔✔✔✔-meconium in
ileus at birth
hemophilia is x linked - ✔✔✔✔-passed from mother
to son
perform amniocentesis - ✔✔✔✔-before 20 weeks to
check for cardiac and pulmonary abnormalities
Rh mothers receive Rhogam - ✔✔✔✔-to protect
next baby
anterior fontanelle closes by...posterior by.. -
✔✔✔✔-18 months, 6-8 weeks