NSG 3023 Chapter 18 QUIZ
Chapter 18: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balances
Potter: Essentials for Nursing Practice, 8th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse is caring for a patient who is suffering from kidney fai
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NSG 3023 Chapter 18 QUIZ
Chapter 18: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balances
Potter: Essentials for Nursing Practice, 8th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse is caring for a patient who is suffering from kidney failure and is receiving
peritoneal dialysis. The nurse explains that peritoneal dialysis works by instilling a solution
into the abdomen that contains dextrose that will pull extra fluid into the abdominal cavity.
What is the name of this process?
a. Diffusion
b. Osmosis
c. Filtration
d. Active transport
A patient has been admitted to the postsurgical nursing unit after surgery. The health care
provider has ordered the patient to have an IV of 0.9% sodium chloride. The nurse who is
caring for the patient recognizes this as what type of solution?
a. Hypotonic
b. Isotonic
c. Hypertonic
d. Hypnotic
The patient is in a coma after a motor vehicle accident. In addition to IV medications, the
patient is receiving an isotonic IV fluid. The primary purpose for this fluid infusion is to:
a. cause cells to shrink and reduce swelling.
b. move fluid from intravascular space into cells.
c. pull fluid from cells into the intravascular space.
d. expand the body’s intravascular fluid volume.
Two nursing students were having pizza one evening as they were studying. One student
remarked that whenever she ate pizza, she was incredibly thirsty. The second student
explained that this thirst was caused by:
a. colloid osmotic pressure.
b. osmoreceptors.
c. oncotic pressure.
d. hydrostatic pressure.
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