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Popular examples of distractors are mystery diseases (strange illnesses
that you have never heard of) or absurd conditions (such as "client
walked in the hall naked").
Do not get confused over convoluted sentences. Shave the sentence
to its skeleton: subject, verb, object.
Distractors can include emergency words that don’t count when
connected to more important words. Some emergency words are the
following: bright red, sanguinous, and bloody. Consider this phrase:
"Small amount of bright red blood." The amount is more
important than the color, which serves mainly to distract you from
what the question is really about.
Other distracting emergency words include edema and swelling. Swelling
in the neck is a greater threat because swelling of the airway is
more important than swelling in the forearm. The site of swelling
and the time involved are more critical than the fact that there
is swelling!
Always search for essential concepts like the ABCs: airway, breathing,
circulation, safety.
Apply the Nursing Process to all study, review, and test questions:
Remember - Assess, Diagnose, Plan, Implement, and Evaluate.
Commit your energy and attention to ensure that what is on your
mind is also what is being asked on the test! In other words, read
what is actually on the page, and not what is in your head!
Read the entire question before answering.
The important thing is to look for the second right answer, because
unless you do, you won’t find it.
With just a little perseverance, you can become a star test-taker!
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