Exam 16: Care of Patients Experiencing Urgent Alterations in Health

A burn patient is brought into the emergency department with the following burns: half of the front torso,entire left arm,and front of left leg.The nurse should record that the patient has a ______% burn.

If a spinal injury is suspected,before the rescuer starts CPR,the trachea should be opened with a jaw _______ maneuver.

The Good Samaritan law will protect all people who offer assistance.What is necessary for this protection?

The nurse is assisting a victim of an accident who requires bandaging of the right lower extremity.What should the nurse do when applying the bandage?

A patient with multiple serious injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident is lying beside his wrecked motorcycle unconscious and bleeding when the rescuer arrives at the scene.What will be the rescuer's priority action?

The patient's lower chest has been punctured with a knife that is still in place.What should the nurse's first action be?

The acronym RICE directs the nurse in the care of a sprain.The "C" in the acronym stands for ________.

A visitor in the hospital slips and falls.The patient's arm appears dislocated and the visitor is unable to move it.What is the first action the nurse should implement?

When performing _________ on an infant,the breastbone is depressed approximately one-third of the chest diameter or 1 $\frac {1 } { 2 }$ in.

When treating an infant choking on a foreign body,the nurse should use a combination of back _________ and chest thrusts.

The nurse is teaching a patient with epistaxis about the best way to control bleeding.What information will the nurse relay to this patient?

When other methods have failed to stop the bleeding and the victim's life is in danger,the rescuer at the scene applies a tourniquet to a young woman's leg above the knee.What is another step that is essential for the rescuer to follow?

The worried mother of an accident victim asks the nurse how much circulating blood an average adult male is supposed to have.What will the nurse reply?

The nurse arrives on the scene of a fire.What is the first thing the nurse will do for a burn victim?

A nurse is assessing victims in an emergency situation.What will the nurse assess for first?

A patient arrives in the emergency department with a sucking wound to the left chest.What is the first action the nurse should take?

A machinist visits the industrial nurse's clinic with a deep laceration of the thigh.What should be the nurse's first action?

The patient arrived at the emergency department in pain and bleeding profusely with the following vital signs: BP 80/54,P 102,RR 22.What does the nurse recognize that these symptoms indicate?

The patient is brought to the emergency department after having fractured an arm 12 hours ago.The arm is very edematous from the fingers to the elbow,and the patient cannot move it.What should be the initial action of the nurse?

When assessing a patient who has suffered a burn injury,the nurse classifies the burn as a deep partial-thickness burn.What is this observation most likely based upon?