The hospitalized patient is found to be in ventricular tachycardia on electrocardiogram. Upon assessment, no pulse or respiratory effort are noted. Which medication is administered first?

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Following an explosion at a factory, the patient is brought by ambulance to the emergency department. The patient has soot on the face and around the mouth and is coughing up black sputum. He verbalizes severe pain in his leg and his voice is noted to be a hoarse whisper. Further assessment reveals full thickness burns to the arms and hands and partial thickness burns to the legs. Shrapnel appears to have been embedded in the patient’s thigh. While moving the leg to assess the inner thigh, a piece of shrapnel shifts and the patient begins bleeding profusely from the wound. The patient cries out in pain and requests pain relief. Which action does the nurse take first?

  • Question Type:   Multiple Choice - Select One
  • Difficulty: 9

The nurse is caring for a 57-year-old woman who is intubated and sedated in the post-anesthesia care unit following a radical hysterectomy. The patient remained stable throughout the 6 hour surgery during which she experienced a 2 L blood loss. The nurse has emptied the patient’s indwelling catheter every hour for the 3 hours the patient has been in the PACU with the following volumes: 54 mL, 23 mL, 12 mL, and 5 mL. Her heart rate is 112 bpm, oxygen saturation is 99%, and blood pressure is 82/54 mmHg. The nurse contacts the provider to report these findings and advocate for which initial order?  

  • Question Type:   Multiple Choice - Select One
  • Difficulty: 9

The patient is admitted to the intensive care unit after starting antibiotics and experiencing a severe drug reaction and erythema multiforme syndrome. The patient has severe mucocutaneous bullae over 42% of the body surface area. The nurse anticipates which diagnosis for this patient?

  • Question Type:   Multiple Choice - Select One
  • Difficulty: 6

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