The patient presents to the emergency department following an incident in which he sustained burns to his hands and forearms. The patient responds, “I don’t understand what everyone is concerned about – it doesn’t even hurt that bad.” Upon assessment, the nurse notes the entirety of the dermis has been destroyed and the wound base appears beefy red. The nurse anticipates the patient will be diagnosed with which type of burn?

The patient developed toxic epidermal necrolysis after receiving phenytoin for seizures. The nurse prioritizes nursing interventions to address which life-threatening comorbidities? Select all that apply.

The nurse is assigned a patient with Hodgkin’s lymphoma undergoing initial treatment. On the patient’s second day, he develops an acute painful swelling and erythema of the right gastrocnemius. The following morning, the patient develops an acute shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. Within minutes, the patient loses consciousness and dies. Which of the following interventions would most likely have prevented this patient’s death?