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The Good Samaritan law will protect all people who offer assistance. What is necessary for this protection?
- A. A license
- B. The person acts prudently
- C. Licensed supervision
- D. The patient improves
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The Good Samaritan law will protect any person who follows a prudent course of action.
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While on break in the hospital cafeteria a nurse witnesses her pregnant coworker start to choke. The coworker is conscious but unable to breathe. Where should the nurse administer thrusts?
- A. Below the navel
- B. The chest
- C. At the xiphoid process
- D. The upper back
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: If the victim is pregnant or obese, chest thrusts are acceptable instead of abdominal thrusts. To provide chest thrusts, the nurse should place his or her hands in the same position that is used for chest compressions during CPR.
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. Place several layers of gauze dressing over the wound.
- B. Place the patient in a supine position.
- C. Cover the wound with an airtight dressing taped on three sides.
- D. Turn the patient to the left side.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Sucking chest wounds should be dressed with a flutter dressing so that air can escape the pleural space, but no more air can be sucked in.
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?
- A. Assessing blood loss
- B. Assessing respiratory status
- C. Obtaining vital signs
- D. Organizing laypeople at the scene
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Priority intervention is to assess respiratory status.
The patient is admitted to the emergency department having suffered frostbite to the hands which are grayish-white in color. What action should the nurse implement when attempting to warm the hands?
- A. Have the patient rub the hands together briskly.
- B. Wipe the hands vigorously with a warm towel.
- C. Run tepid water over the hands to warm slowly.
- D. Wrap the hands in hot moist towels.
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Warming the hands in moist towels will warm the hands slowly. Friction of frozen body parts should be avoided.
The nurse determines clinical death and initiates CPR immediately. How long is resuscitation considered possible?
- A. If cardiopulmonary arrest has existed for no more 2 minutes
- B. If cardiopulmonary arrest has existed for no more 3 minutes
- C. If cardiopulmonary arrest has existed for no more 4 minutes
- D. If cardiopulmonary arrest has existed for no more 5 minutes
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: CPR can reverse clinical death if initiated before 4 minutes.