NSG 405 - PREP U Shock and MODS Quiz
QUESTION 1 Which type of shock is caused by an infection? ANS Septic QUESTION 2 While obtaining a health history, a nurse learns that a client is allergic to bee stings. When obtaining this client's medication history, the nurse should determine if the client keeps which medication on hand? ANS Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) QUESTION 3 The nurse is caring for as 78-year-old client with extensive cardiovascular disease. Which type of shock is the client most likely to develop? ANS Cardiogenic Shock EXPLANATION: Older adults, particularly those with cardiac disease, are susceptible to cardiogenic shock. Older adults are not susceptible to developing neurogenic, septic, or anaphylactic shock. QUESTION 4 A client is in a driving accident creating a spinal cord injury. The nurse caring for a client realizes that the client is at risk for which type of shock? ANS Neurogenic QUESTION 5 A client was admitted to the hospital unit with an elevated leukocyte count and a fever accompanied by warm, flushed skin. These symptoms suggest that the client has: ANS an overwhelming bacterial infection. EXPLANATION: Unlike other forms of shock, patients with septic shock have an elevated leukocyte count and initially manifest fever accompanied by warm, flushed skin and a rapid, bounding pulse. Therefore, the patient with an overwhelming bacterial infection is most likely to exhibit these symptoms. Extreme loss of blood causes hypovolemic shock; an overdose of opioids causes neurogenic shock; and a severe allergic reaction causes anaphylactic shock.
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