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Question 1

List four critical life functions.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which life function receives first priority?

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which assessments determine how well a patient is ventilating?

Answer 3

C

Question 4

How do you determine if a patient has a problem with oxygenation?

Answer 4

X

Question 5

What information determines adequacy of perfusion?

Answer 5

C

Question 6

What changes might indicate inadequate perfusion?

Answer 6

X

Question 7

List six items that are important to examine when reviewing a patient’s chart.

Answer 7

C

Question 8

Define an advance directive.

Answer 8

X

Question 9

List and describe four types of advance directives

Answer 9

X

Question 10

A properly written order for respiratory care should include what four factors?

Answer 10

C

Question 11

How should an aerosol treatment be charted?

Answer 11

Xx

Question 12

What is the normal value for urine output?

Answer 12

X

Question 13

What findings might indicate that a patient’s fluid intake has exceeded his or her fluid output?

Answer 13

X

Question 14

Changes in a patient’s ________ reading can indicate hypovolemia.

Answer 14

X

Question 15

Define “semicomatose.”

Answer 15

C

Question 16

Define “stuporous.”

Answer 16

X

Question 17

Drone “obtunded.”

Answer 17

C

Question 18

What three assessments comprise a Glasgow Coma Scale?

Answer 18

• Eye-opening response
• Most appropriate verbal response
• Most integrated motor response (“arm”)

Question 19

What are the possible eye-opening responses for a GCS?

Answer 19

• Spontaneous opening
• To verbal stimuli
• To pain
• None

Question 20

What are the verbal responses recognized in the GCS?

Answer 20

• Oriented
• Confused
• Inappropriate words
• Incoherent
• None

Question 21

What are the motor responses recognized by the GCS?

Answer 21

• Obeys commands
• Localizes pain
• Withdraws from pain
• Flexion to pain
• Extension to pain
• None

Question 22

When assessing a patient’s orientation to time, place, and person, what are four factors that could affect the patient’s ability to cooperate?

Answer 22

C

Question 23

Define orthopnea.

Answer 23

Xx

Question 24

Define “general malaise.”

Answer 24

X

Question 25

Define “dyspnea.”

Answer 25

X

Question 26

Define “dysphagia.”

Answer 26

X

Question 27

Describe four different types of syncope.

Answer 27

X

Question 28

Describe patient learning needs.

Answer 28

C

Question 29

What criteria determine a patient’s ability to learn?

Answer 29

C

Question 30

What criteria determine a patient’s nutritional status?

Answer 30

C

Question 31

List for items that would be important to identify in the patient’s past medical history.

Answer 31

C

Question 32

Normal HR.

Answer 32

X

Question 33

Normal RR.

Answer 33

X

Question 34

Normal body temperatures.

Answer 34

Oral—
Rectal—
Tympanic—