Exam 63: First Aid, Emergency Care, and Disaster Management

A patient is admitted to the emergency department after having been bitten on the hand by a black widow spider.Which nursing intervention should the nurse initiate?

A patient is present with signs of severe airway obstruction.What term accurately describes the high-pitched noise the patient is exhibiting with inhalation?

Standing in a fast-food line, the person in front, while munching on a cookie, begins to cough heavily, takes deep inspirations, and waves his arms around wildly.What should be the nurse's first action?

While at the local pool on an extremely hot day, a nurse is called on to care for a woman who has evidently developed heat exhaustion.What is the initial nursing care for this person?

A young man is staggering out of a partially closed doorway to a garage, where a car is running inside.He speaks slowly in a very low voice, telling the nurse that he fell asleep in the car with the engine running.What is the immediate action?

A child is brought to the emergency department with several deep dog bites on her legs.After cleaning the wounds, what should the nurse be primarily concerned with ascertaining?

A mother brings in her 2-year-old who has ingested gasoline 1 hour earlier.What should the nurse implement following the initial assessment?

A patient is brought to the emergency department having had a rock chip embedded in the right eye.What should be the nurse's initial action?

A patient visits the industrial nurse after an accident on the factory floor, which has amputated three toes.What is the most effective nursing intervention for the amputated toes?

A nurse comes upon a traffic accident where injured, unconscious people are lying on the highway.What should the nurse be aware of regarding the sanctioning of first-aid interventions in this scenario?

A nurse is called on to assist a neighbor who needs first aid.What should the nurse know is the legal responsibility for this action?

A nurse who is assisting victims of an automobile collision has already placed a towel secured with a belt on a bleeding leg wound.What action should the nurse take when the towel becomes saturated?

What is the initial intervention for an unconscious patient who is not breathing according to one-person CPR principles, as taught and practiced by professional nurses?

Which condition may complicate the assessment of an older adult patient with a suspected head injury?

While ambulating, a patient gasps and drops to the floor unconscious with no pulse or respiration.When is the nurse aware that brain cells begin to die?

A patient comes to the emergency department with an evisceration after a knife attack.What is the best nursing intervention related to the exposed bowel?

A nurse in the emergency department knows that tissue damage has probably occurred in a person with hypothermia when a rectal temperature of _____ $\degree$ F is assessed.(Use numeric characters only.)

An accident victim comes to the emergency department with an open chest wound.What should the nurse apply to the wound?

A homeless person is brought to the emergency department after having been found asleep on a park bench under a layer of snow.He has a rectal temperature of 95 $\degree$ F.Which additional symptoms should the nurse anticipate?

What will the nurse giving discharge instructions to a patient who is severely allergic to insect stings caution the patient to do?