Exam 16: First Aid, emergency Care, and Disaster Management

The nurse follows the protocol of AMPLE when speaking to a victim of a fall in the parking lot of the hospital.The nurse knows that the P stands for:

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

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.The immediate nursing diagnosis and action for this nurse is:

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

The nurse who is assisting victims of an automobile collision has already placed a towel secured with a belt on a bleeding leg wound.When the towel becomes saturated the nurse should:

The condition that may complicate the assessment of an older adult patient with a suspected head injury is:

While ambulating,a patient gasps and drops to the floor unconscious with no pulse or respiration.The nurse is aware that without resuscitation the brain cells will begin to die in:

The nurse has assessed the patient with a left-sided head injury and records this information: decreasing LOC; slow pupillary response on the right side; BP: 167/80 mm Hg; previous BP: 160/72 mm Hg; and gradually increasing respiratory and pulse rates.The nurse is aware that these assessments are indicators of ______________________________.

One-person CPR principles,as taught and practiced by professional nurses,require that the initial intervention for an unconscious patient who is not breathing is to:

A mother brings in her 2-year-old who has ingested gasoline 1 hour earlier.After initial assessment,the nurse will: