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16 multiple-choice questions and 5 flashcards on Basic Care and Comfort, about 10% of the NCLEX-PN bank. Every one carries a written rationale.
Basic Care and Comfort is one of 8 chapters in CoStudy's NCLEX-PN bank, and it holds 16 of the bank's 162 multiple-choice questions — roughly 10% of the total. That proportion is not arbitrary: chapters follow the certifying body's published exam outline, and the number of questions in each is set by that domain's published weight, so the share of your practice time this chapter takes matches the share of the real exam it accounts for.
Studying by chapter is worth doing once you have a diagnostic score. A single overall percentage tells you whether you are close; it does not tell you which domain is dragging. Working a weak chapter in isolation, and re-testing it in isolation, is the fastest way to move a score that has stalled — and it is why the mock exams in CoStudy report by domain rather than as one number.
2 questions drawn from this chapter, with the full rationale shown — the controlling principle behind the right answer, and why each wrong option tempts and fails.
An LPN observes pressure injury risk on a bed-bound patient. Best intervention:
Answer: D — Reposition every 2 hours and assess skin
A) Too infrequent. D) Correct — q2h repositioning + skin assessment is standard prevention. Combined with moisture management, nutrition, pressure-relieving surfaces. C) Prevention > treatment. B) Lotion alone insufficient.
A patient is on bedrest. To prevent disuse complications the LPN should:
Answer: D — Encourage range-of-motion exercises, deep breathing, incentive spirometry, and frequent position changes
A) Causes dehydration. D) Correct — bundles prevent atelectasis, DVT, contracture. C) Causes pressure injury. B) Not preventive.
4 cards from the 5 in this chapter.
Postoperative ambulation: timing?
Early — usually within 24 hr. Prevents DVT, atelectasis, ileus.
Pressure injury prevention?
Reposition q2h, skin assessment, manage moisture, optimize nutrition, pressure-relieving surfaces.
Wound dressing change: sterile vs clean technique?
Sterile for new surgical/acute wounds. Clean for chronic/healed wounds.
Pain assessment: how to ask?
Use 0-10 scale; ask about location, quality, duration, aggravating/relieving factors (OPQRST or PQRST).
These are a sample. The full Basic Care and Comfort chapter runs 21 items with per-chapter progress tracking, on the web and in the iOS app.