Safety / Emergency Quiz - NS

The nurse aide notes a client choking during meal time. The client is unable to speak and is clutching the throat. The nurse aide plans to perform an abdominal thrust (Heimlich maneuver) for this client. In order to perform this procedure, the nurse aide should place his hands:

• slightly below the client's navel and above the pubic bone

• in the middle of the client's back

• in the middle of the client's chest

• slightly above the client's navel and below the sternum

The nurse aide is serving a food tray for a client who has had all his teeth removed and does not wear dentures. The tray has roast beef, mashed potatoes, squash casserole, and chocolate pudding. The food that could possibly cause a safety issue for this client is the:

• chocolate pudding

• mashed potatoes

• squash casserole

• roast beef

The nurse aide is assisting with CPR on a client. The nurse aide has been told to do chest compressions. How many times per minute should the nurse aide compress the chest of an adult client?

• 75 times/minute

• 100 times/minute

• 150 times/minute

• 60 times/minute

The nurse aide enters a client's room and finds the client lying in the bed. The client's color is cyanotic, and he does not appear to be breathing. The nurse aide's FIRST response in this situation is to:

• try to establish responsiveness in the client

• try to give the client two breaths

• begin cardiac compressions

• pick up the phone and call 911

A client has paraplegia. This means that the client is most at risk for injury to what area of the body?

• The lower extremities

• The arms and hands

• The neck

• The face

During a fire in a healthcare facility, the nurse aide knows to use the word RACE, which stands for:

• Rescue, Alarm, Confine, Extinguish

• Run, Alarm, Configure, Exit

• Rescue, Absorb, Compute, Enter

• Reach, Appear, Cancel, Exit

The nurse aide is aware that smoking is prohibited in clients who use:

• pain medication

• computers

• oxygen

• insulin

While shopping, the nurse aide comes upon an individual who has tripped and fallen and has received a deep laceration to the right arm. The nurse aide knows that the first thing to do is to:

• elevate the individual's right arm and put direct pressure on the wound

• ask witnesses to write statements about the accident

• take the individual to a hospital emergency department

• lower the individual's right arm and cover the wound with a clean cloth

The location that the nurse aide should check for a pulse in an adult client who does not appear to be breathing is:

• radial

• apical

• brachial

• carotid

Signs and symptoms of a severe allergic reaction include:

• itching on top of the feet

• runny nose and sneezing

• hives, edema, and difficulty breathing

• watery eyes