NUR 2755 MDC 4 RASMUSSEN FINAL
REAL EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND
GRADE A+ ANSWERS //LATEST NUR
2755 2024
A provider tells the nurse that a patient is having a tension pneumothorax. What could the nurse anticipate about how this will be treated? - ANSWER-With a needle decompression thoracotomy
A nurse sees a patient coming into the trauma bay with paradoxical chest movement. What might the patient be having? - ANSWER-Flail Chest
A provider tells the ED nurse that the patient has a flail chest. What does the nurse anticipate will happen next for the patient? - ANSWER- Intubation and mechanical ventilation A client has fluid volume excess due to heart failure. What are some of the important cardiac findings for this condition? - ANSWER-Bounding pulse, JVD, central venous pressure is high, wedge pressure is high
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What must the nurse do immediately when a patient presents with an inhalation injury? - ANSWER-Intubate to assume an airway, assess respiratory status.
A burn patient presents to the ED. What are some of the signs they may present with leading to an inhalation injury? - ANSWER-SOB, soot around nose, singed facial hairs, drooling, not swallowing, black membranes.
What things could cause an elevated wedge pressure? - ANSWER-FVE, left ventricular failure
What are the components of DIC? - ANSWER-Inappropriate clotting that uses up all the clotting factors and bleeding due to not having enough clotting factors bath the same time.
A patient comes to the ED having diminished breath sounds on his left lung and asymmetrical chest expansion when asked to breathe. The nurse feels the patient's trachea has deviated to the right side of the throat. What is the patient suffering from? - ANSWER-Pneumothorax
A provider tells the nurse that a patient is having a simple pneumothorax. What treatment might be prescribed for the patient? - ANSWER-Chest Tube
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