Chest Tube ATI
A client comes to the emergency department in severe Correct Answer: D.
respiratory distress following left-sided blunt chest trauma. The Chest tube insertion
nurse notes absent breath sounds on the client's left side and a
tracheal shift to the right. For which of the following procedures The client's manifestations indicate pneumothorax due to blunt chest trauma. The nurse
should the nurse prepare the client? should prepare for the provider to insert a chest tube and connect it to a water-seal drainage
A. system.
Tracheostomy placement
B.
Thoracentesis
C.
CT scan of the chest
D.
Chest tube insertion
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, Chest Tube ATI
A community health nurse is performing client triage while Correct Answer: A.
participating in a disaster drill. The nurse should recommend Hemothorax
that which of the following client injuries receives treatment
first? The nurse should apply the survival potential priority-setting framework in mass casualty
A. situations, when resources are scarce and resources must be allocated to save the greatest
Hemothorax number of lives. While it could seem that the client who is most at risk should receive
B. priority care, this client is the lowest priority. The nurse should assign the highest priority to
Open humeral fracture the client with injuries that are severe who has the potential to survive with treatment.
C. Therefore, the nurse should recommend that the client who has a hemothorax receives
Multiple deep abrasions on the arms and face treatment first. A hemothorax is life-threatening, but with chest-tube insertion and
D. stabilization, the client is likely to survive.
Superficial partial-thickness burns on both legs
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A client comes to the emergency department in severe Correct Answer: D.
respiratory distress following left-sided blunt chest trauma. The Chest tube insertion
nurse notes absent breath sounds on the client's left side and a
tracheal shift to the right. For which of the following procedures The client's manifestations indicate pneumothorax due to blunt chest trauma. The nurse
should the nurse prepare the client? should prepare for the provider to insert a chest tube and connect it to a water-seal drainage
A. system.
Tracheostomy placement
B.
Thoracentesis
C.
CT scan of the chest
D.
Chest tube insertion
2/4/2026
, Chest Tube ATI
A community health nurse is performing client triage while Correct Answer: A.
participating in a disaster drill. The nurse should recommend Hemothorax
that which of the following client injuries receives treatment
first? The nurse should apply the survival potential priority-setting framework in mass casualty
A. situations, when resources are scarce and resources must be allocated to save the greatest
Hemothorax number of lives. While it could seem that the client who is most at risk should receive
B. priority care, this client is the lowest priority. The nurse should assign the highest priority to
Open humeral fracture the client with injuries that are severe who has the potential to survive with treatment.
C. Therefore, the nurse should recommend that the client who has a hemothorax receives
Multiple deep abrasions on the arms and face treatment first. A hemothorax is life-threatening, but with chest-tube insertion and
D. stabilization, the client is likely to survive.
Superficial partial-thickness burns on both legs
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