WorksheetsPre GI Lecture Quiz
Total questions: 4
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the assessment order for the abdomen?
Inspection, Auscultation, Percussion, and Palpation
Auscultation, Inspection, Palpation, and Percussion
The nurse is starting to administer a unit of packed red blood cells (PRBCs) to a patient admitted in
hypovolemic shock secondary to hemorrhage. Vital signs include blood pressure 60/40 mm Hg, heart rate 150beats/min, respirations 42 breaths/min, and temperature 100.6 F. What is the best action by the nurse?
Administer blood transfusion over at least 4 hours.
Notify the physician of the elevated temperature.
Titrate rate of blood administration to patient response.
Notify the physician of the patients heart rate.
The nurse is caring for a patient with severe sepsis who was resuscitated with 3000 mL of lactated Ringer solution over the past 4 hours. Morning laboratory results show a hemoglobin of 8 g/dL and hematocrit of 28%. What is the best interpretation of these findings by the nurse?
Blood transfusion with packed red blood cells is required.
Hemoglobin and hematocrit results indicate hemodilution.
Fluid resuscitation has resulted in fluid volume overload.
Fluid resuscitation has resulted in third spacing of fluid.
The nurse is educating a patients family member about a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC). Which statement by the family member best indicates understanding of the purpose of the PAC?
The catheter will provide multiple sites to give intravenous fluid.
The catheter will be in position until the heart has a chance to heal.
The catheter tip comes to rest inside my brothers pulmonary artery.
The catheter will allow the physician to better manage fluid therapy.
