Nursing the person with deteriorating health

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1. How should a collapsed patient be managed by a health care professional?

  • Check for safety, Shake and shout, call for help, open the airway, check breathing and circulation, perform chest compressions.
  • Shake and shout, shout for help, open the airway, check breathing and circulation together, perform chest compressions.
  • Open the airway, check breathing, check circulation then shout for help, perform chest compressions
  • Shake and shout, call for help, check breathing and then circulation, perform rescue breaths.
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2. A patient suffering from shock may present with:

  • Vasodilatation and a low blood pressure
  • Bronchodilation and a low urinary output
  • A high blood pressure and vasodilatation
  • Hypertension and vasoconstriction

3. What is the maximum oxygen flow rate for a nasal canulla

  • More than 10L
  • less than 10L
  • 1-6L
  • 6-10L

4. Cushing’s Triad is defined as?

  • Decreased respiration's, decreases pulse rate and raised systolic blood pressure and widening pulse pressure
  • Decrease in diastolic blood pressure, widening pulse pressure and a decreased pulse rate
  • Increased blood pressure, reduced respiration rate and increased pulse rate
  • Narrowing pulse pressure, decreased systolic blood pressure and reduced respiration

5. 7) In acute severe asthma which of these is the expected peak expiratory flow?

  • 33-50% of predicted
  • 40-60% of predicted
  • less than 33% of predicted
  • They would not be able to perform a peak flow.
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