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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

We just took an NLN practice test and are completely perplexed by a question. I know there are mistakes in some of these test banks, but if anyone can shed any light, I would appreciate it.

Question: Blood for transfusion at room temperature longer than 30 min. What is the biggest risk?

Choices:

hyopcalcemia

hypercalcemia

hypokalemia

hyperkalemia

I cannot find any information anywhere for a rationale. Is this a "bad" question or is this a real concern?

Help! I am one of those people that NEED to know :)

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Specializes in Surgery NP.

I would go with hyperkalemia due to potential lysis of the RBC's sitting in the bag. :) Lysed RBC's release potassium......

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

makes sense, thank you!

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Specializes in Surgery NP.

Anytime! :D

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We just took an NLN practice test and are completely perplexed by a question. I know there are mistakes in some of these test banks, but if anyone can shed any light, I would appreciate it.

Question: Blood for transfusion at room temperature longer than 30 min. What is the biggest risk?

Choices:

hyopcalcemia

hypercalcemia

hypokalemia

hyperkalemia

I cannot find any information anywhere for a rationale. Is this a "bad" question or is this a real concern?

Help! I am one of those people that NEED to know :)

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hey,

did you already take the nln...

do you need to pass it to finish school, or are you just reviewing it...

i know our school we had to take nln exam for an exit exam thing...

if you need help, just ask... i have a lot of the questions still memorized...

good luck...

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

We are taking them as benchmark tests for the instructors. It is included in our tuition as a built in NCLEX review. They were going to make them part of our grades, but the material we were taught did not always match up to what we were taught (we are now finding out there are huge gaps in our education-especially in peds and burns). I like the practice tests they give us (we get 2 per topic) because they have rationales we can understand. The test bank they use for our classroom tests suck. Although we have some questions that the answer choices do not match question, which I believe is the case for the above question. We had another regarding blood transfusions where the answer choices all related to blood sugars.

We will take one later that predicts our passability factor for the NCLEX.

Thank you!!!!

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Hello there is it possible for you to email me the questions you memorized? Or even a study guide thanks :)

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has anyone gone to st.clair community college>? is it hard to get in?

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