Airway Management
Proctored Test Questions
& Answers
A nurse is trying to determine whether or not a patient's artificial airway should be suctioned.
Which of the following is NOT an indication for suctioning? - ANSWERSPatient has audible
gurgling and appears restlessness
The student nurse is observing the staff nurse perform routine tracheostomy care. Which of the
following actions, if made by the staff nurse, would be inappropriate? - ANSWERSThe nurse
removes the soiled trach. ties, cleans the flange, and applies new tracheostomy ties, securing
them tightly behind the patient's neck.
The nurse is going to perform inline trachesotomy suctioning followed by trachesotomy care
(using a disposable inner cannula). Which of the following is an incorrect step in the sequence
for these procedures? - ANSWERSApply clean gloves, removes exhisting inner cannula. Clean
around stoma and flange with brush ini outward circle moving toward stoma. Insert new inner
cannula. Have assistant hold trachesotomy tube.
For the patient who extubated himseld, what priority action should the nurse take? -
ANSWERSDetermine whether the pateint is breathing spontaneously.
What is the purpose of having a fenestrated tube in an artificial airway? - ANSWERSTo allow the
patient to talk.
The nurse is preparing to perform tracheal suctioning on a patient. Which of the following
would be an appropriate nursing action? Select all that apply. - ANSWERS-Hyperoxygenate
patient with artificial airway before suctioning.
-Allow at least 1 full min between suction passes.
Proctored Test Questions
& Answers
A nurse is trying to determine whether or not a patient's artificial airway should be suctioned.
Which of the following is NOT an indication for suctioning? - ANSWERSPatient has audible
gurgling and appears restlessness
The student nurse is observing the staff nurse perform routine tracheostomy care. Which of the
following actions, if made by the staff nurse, would be inappropriate? - ANSWERSThe nurse
removes the soiled trach. ties, cleans the flange, and applies new tracheostomy ties, securing
them tightly behind the patient's neck.
The nurse is going to perform inline trachesotomy suctioning followed by trachesotomy care
(using a disposable inner cannula). Which of the following is an incorrect step in the sequence
for these procedures? - ANSWERSApply clean gloves, removes exhisting inner cannula. Clean
around stoma and flange with brush ini outward circle moving toward stoma. Insert new inner
cannula. Have assistant hold trachesotomy tube.
For the patient who extubated himseld, what priority action should the nurse take? -
ANSWERSDetermine whether the pateint is breathing spontaneously.
What is the purpose of having a fenestrated tube in an artificial airway? - ANSWERSTo allow the
patient to talk.
The nurse is preparing to perform tracheal suctioning on a patient. Which of the following
would be an appropriate nursing action? Select all that apply. - ANSWERS-Hyperoxygenate
patient with artificial airway before suctioning.
-Allow at least 1 full min between suction passes.
