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 hospital visitor cuts herself on the arm and is bleeding profusely.The nurse's immediate treatment for this condition is to:

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:

The nurse giving discharge instructions to the patient who is severely allergic to insect stings would caution the patient to:

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 comes upon a traffic accident.One passenger is lying on the ground by an open door.The nurse stops and begins immediate nursing interventions by proceeding with assessing for:

The patient visits the industrial nurse after an accident on the factory floor,which has amputated three toes.Effective nursing intervention for the amputated toes would be:

On the initial assessment of a patient with carbon monoxide poisoning,the emergency department nurse would anticipate that:

When the child is brought to the emergency department with several deep dog bites on his legs,the nurse will,after cleaning the wounds,be primarily concerned with ascertaining the:

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

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° F.The nurse anticipates which of the following additional symptoms?

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:

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

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

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 ______________________________.

The nurse in the emergency department knows that tissue damage has probably occurred in the person with hypothermia when a rectal temperature of ____________________ is assessed.

When the accident victim comes to the emergency department with an open chest wound,the nurse should apply to the wound:

Six hours after a beach picnic on a hot afternoon,a young man enters the emergency department with nausea and vomiting,headache,and diarrhea.On interview,the patient says that he ate potato salad and tuna fish sandwiches.The nurse anticipates that the causative organism for these symptoms is:

A nurse comes upon a traffic accident where injured,unconscious people are lying on the highway.The nurse is aware that first-aid interventions are sanctioned by the:

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: