Every NCLEX-PN® question of the day

A licensed practical nurse is participating in a health promotion screening event at a skilled nursing facility. A 52-year-old female resident with...

PN Daily #48

A 52-year-old man is recovering on the medical-surgical unit after a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) performed yesterday. The plan of...

PN Daily #47

A licensed practical nurse is caring for a 22-year-old male client in a skilled nursing facility who is recovering from a spinal cord injury and...

PN Daily #46

A 52-year-old woman is postpartum day 2 following a vaginal delivery and resides temporarily on a long-term care rehabilitation unit for recovery due...

PN Daily #45

A licensed practical nurse (LPN) is making a home health visit to a 52-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who was...

PN Daily #44

A licensed practical nurse (LPN) is making a home health visit to a 34-year-old man on postoperative day 3 following an appendectomy. His wife states...

PN Daily #43

A 32-year-old male resident of a long-term care facility has spina bifida with a neurogenic bladder and a seizure disorder. Documented allergies...

PN Daily #42

A licensed practical nurse (LPN) is making a home health visit to a 68-year-old woman recovering from a hip fracture. She has a...

PN Daily #41

A 54-year-old female resident in a long-term care facility has a stage III pressure injury on her sacrum and is scheduled for a bed-to-wheelchair...

PN Daily #40

A 52-year-old woman on the rehabilitation unit is post-operative day 2 following a right total knee replacement. She reports right knee pain rated...

PN Daily #39

A 22-year-old man with type 1 diabetes mellitus is seen in an outpatient endocrine clinic for a routine follow-up visit. His baseline fasting glucose...

PN Daily #38

A 32-year-old woman is recovering on a postpartum unit of a skilled nursing facility following a vaginal birth with a fourth-degree laceration. The...

PN Daily #37

An 82-year-old man is recovering from a right hip fracture repair on the rehabilitation unit, day 3 postoperatively. He has a history of...

PN Daily #36

A 52-year-old man recovering from a spinal cord injury is on a rehabilitation unit following a recent tracheostomy for prolonged ventilator weaning...

PN Daily #35

A 32-year-old woman on the medical-surgical unit has a nasogastric feeding tube placed 2 days ago for nutritional support after bowel surgery...

PN Daily #34

A 21-year-old male client with a traumatic brain injury resides in a skilled nursing facility and receives continuous feeding through a percutaneous...

PN Daily #33

A licensed practical nurse (LPN) is making a home health visit to a 68-year-old man with type 2 diabetes and a surgical wound following a below-knee...

PN Daily #32

A licensed practical nurse is caring for a 78-year-old woman on a postpartum recovery unit who delivered vaginally 6 hours ago following a planned...

PN Daily #31

A 52-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus and stage 3 chronic kidney disease arrives at the outpatient endocrine clinic for a fasting basic...

PN Daily #30

A 52-year-old man with a T10 spinal cord injury resides in a long-term care facility on an intermittent urinary catheterization and bowel management...

PN Daily #29

A 32-year-old woman recovering from a traumatic brain injury is on the rehabilitation unit with a percutaneous gastrostomy tube placed 3 weeks ago...

PN Daily #28

An LPN is making a home health visit to a 68-year-old man with diabetic peripheral neuropathy and a chronic left heel pressure ulcer requiring...

PN Daily #27

The LPN is assisting the RN in monitoring a client at 34 weeks gestation, G2P1, EDD in 6 weeks, admitted to the antepartum unit of a skilled nursing...

PN Daily #26

A 32-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes mellitus is seen in the outpatient clinic for a follow-up visit after adjusting her insulin regimen. Her...

PN Daily #25

An 78-year-old woman is on postoperative day 2 following a hip fracture repair on a medical-surgical unit. The LPN/VN notes the client is tearful...

PN Daily #24

An LPN in an outpatient wound care clinic is caring for a 78-year-old woman recovering from a herpes zoster (shingles) outbreak that left painful...

PN Daily #23

On a busy medical-surgical unit, the charge nurse asks an LPN/VN to change the dressing on a client's newly placed suprapubic catheter insertion site...

PN Daily #22

An LPN/VN is preparing to administer a scheduled dose of regular insulin 6 units subcutaneously to a 68-year-old male resident of a long-term care...

PN Daily #21

An LPN is caring for a 78-year-old man on a medical-surgical unit who is on contact precautions for a wound infection. He is scheduled for his annual...

PN Daily #20

A 32-year-old woman recovering from a spinal fusion is on the rehabilitation unit and requires a two-person mechanical lift transfer from bed to...

PN Daily #19

A 32-year-old female with type 1 diabetes mellitus is on postoperative day 2 following a laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a skilled nursing facility...

PN Daily #18

A home health LPN/VN visits a 52-year-old woman with long-standing myasthenia gravis who uses a home mechanical ventilator via tracheostomy at night...

PN Daily #17

A 32-year-old male client in a skilled nursing facility is recovering from a traumatic brain injury with a new seizure disorder. He was started on...

PN Daily #16

A 52-year-old woman is seen in an outpatient orthopedic clinic 3 days after knee arthroscopy. She ambulates with a new walker and reports right knee...

PN Daily #15

A 52-year-old man with type 2 diabetes and a recent stroke is on the rehabilitation unit recovering strength on his left side. He has an indwelling...

PN Daily #14

A 22-year-old woman is recovering on the rehabilitation unit following an open reduction internal fixation of the right femur. She is alert, follows...

PN Daily #13

A 32-year-old woman is admitted to the medical-surgical unit for evaluation of persistent fatigue and insomnia following a recent diagnosis of a...

PN Daily #12

A 32-year-old woman residing in a long-term care facility due to a spinal cord injury is being cared for by the LPN. The client's chart notes she has...

PN Daily #11

An 82-year-old man in a rehabilitation unit had cataract surgery on his right eye 2 days ago. He also has a stage II pressure injury on his right...

PN Daily #10

An LPN in a long-term care facility is caring for a 22-year-old man with traumatic brain injury and a stage IV sacral pressure injury following a...

PN Daily #9

A 52-year-old woman with metastatic pancreatic cancer is on a rehabilitation unit for deconditioning after a recent hospitalization. She has a signed...

PN Daily #8

A 29-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1, at 32 weeks of gestation (EDD in 8 weeks) is seen at an outpatient prenatal clinic where the LPN is assisting...

PN Daily #7

A licensed practical nurse (LPN) is making a home health visit to a 22-year-old woman who was discharged 3 days ago after a spontaneous pneumothorax...

PN Daily #6

A 22-year-old male client is recovering in a rehabilitation unit following a traumatic brain injury with dysphagia. He has a percutaneous endoscopic...

PN Daily #5

An LPN in an outpatient endocrine clinic checks a 76-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus who was just fitted with new hearing aids. He reports...

PN Daily #4

A 52-year-old woman recovering from a stroke on the rehabilitation unit is able to wash her face, brush her teeth, and comb her hair independently...

PN Daily #3

A 68-year-old man is admitted to the medical-surgical unit for management of a mild upper respiratory infection with a low-grade fever. His history...

PN Daily #2

A 48-year-old woman is postoperative day 2 following an abdominal hysterectomy on the medical-surgical unit. She became a first-time adoptive mother...

PN Daily #1