Look for Key Words
- Key words focus your attention on a specific or critical point to consider when answering the question.
- Some key words may indicate that all of the options are correct, and that it will be necessary to prioritize in order to select the correct option.
- As you read the question, look for the key words; key words will make a difference regarding how you will answer the question.
| COMMON KEY WORDS Early or Late Best First Initial Immediately Most likely or least likely Most appropriate or least appropriate |
| PRACTICE QUESTION: Look for the Key words A nurse is caring for a client who just returned from the recovery room after undergoing abdominal surgery. The nurse monitors the client for which early sign of hypovolemic shock? 1. Increase pulse rate 2. Increased depth of respiration 3. Lethargy 4. Decreased deep tendon reflexes Answer: 1 Test-taking Strategy: Note the key words early sign. Focusing on these key words and recalling that the earliest clinical signs of hypovolemic shock are cardiovascular changes will direct you to the correct option. Although increased depth of respiration, Lethargy and Decreased or absent deep tendon reflexes occur in hypovolemic shock, these are not early signs. Rather they occur as shock progresses. REMEMBER TO LOOK FOR KEY WORDS. |
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