Mark Boswell CEN Videos: Emergency Nursing Review Lectures, Topics & Exam
Preparation Guide
Placental previa - correct answer ✔✔happens later in pregnancy usually, usu painless
Placenta abruptio - correct answer ✔✔Can lead to DIC, always painful, always an emergency,
baby HAS to come out
if you cant get an IV in eclampsia pt - correct answer ✔✔Give mag sulfate IM!! Also give benzos
if seizure occurs. Labetalol works by beta and alpha receptors to reduce HTN can be given IV
Antidote for mag sulfate - correct answer ✔✔Ca gluconate
APGAR - correct answer ✔✔Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respirations
Neonate HR <80 after blow by and suctioning, etc. - correct answer ✔✔Start compressions
Immune compromised pts - correct answer ✔✔Chemo, transplants, HIV/AIDs, chronic steroid
use, dialysis
Costovertebral angle - correct answer ✔✔Check for tenderness where kidney is (pyelo)
Nitrites in UA infection - correct answer ✔✔Byproduct of infection
UA meds NOT to use in pregnancy - correct answer ✔✔Doxycycline (messes up dental of baby),
sulfas
, Lab tests for kidney infection - correct answer ✔✔Blood counts, chemistry bc it is a systemic
infection
Kidney stone pain - correct answer ✔✔Post renal (ureters)
Contrast used for - correct answer ✔✔Bowel and hollow organs and appendix primarily (can
see solid things otherwise)
Compazine, phenergan, reglan can all cause - correct answer ✔✔hypotension, dizziness, mild
sedation
Prostate pain - correct answer ✔✔may hurt when bowels are moved
High energy injuries (need to keep them, do full head to toe, of normally not broken bones) -
correct answer ✔✔1st rib fx, Sternal fx, axial loading injuries
Axial loading injuries - correct answer ✔✔Check heel fx, then check spine, cervical and thoracic
Bladder rupture usually occurs from - correct answer ✔✔a pelvic fx
If prostate is high or to side assume - correct answer ✔✔Urethral trauma; get scan first
what type of scan is appropriate for bladder - correct answer ✔✔CT
Gastritis long term - correct answer ✔✔Pain relieved when eating bc food absorbs acid
Duodenal ulcer - correct answer ✔✔Pain before meals
Preparation Guide
Placental previa - correct answer ✔✔happens later in pregnancy usually, usu painless
Placenta abruptio - correct answer ✔✔Can lead to DIC, always painful, always an emergency,
baby HAS to come out
if you cant get an IV in eclampsia pt - correct answer ✔✔Give mag sulfate IM!! Also give benzos
if seizure occurs. Labetalol works by beta and alpha receptors to reduce HTN can be given IV
Antidote for mag sulfate - correct answer ✔✔Ca gluconate
APGAR - correct answer ✔✔Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respirations
Neonate HR <80 after blow by and suctioning, etc. - correct answer ✔✔Start compressions
Immune compromised pts - correct answer ✔✔Chemo, transplants, HIV/AIDs, chronic steroid
use, dialysis
Costovertebral angle - correct answer ✔✔Check for tenderness where kidney is (pyelo)
Nitrites in UA infection - correct answer ✔✔Byproduct of infection
UA meds NOT to use in pregnancy - correct answer ✔✔Doxycycline (messes up dental of baby),
sulfas
, Lab tests for kidney infection - correct answer ✔✔Blood counts, chemistry bc it is a systemic
infection
Kidney stone pain - correct answer ✔✔Post renal (ureters)
Contrast used for - correct answer ✔✔Bowel and hollow organs and appendix primarily (can
see solid things otherwise)
Compazine, phenergan, reglan can all cause - correct answer ✔✔hypotension, dizziness, mild
sedation
Prostate pain - correct answer ✔✔may hurt when bowels are moved
High energy injuries (need to keep them, do full head to toe, of normally not broken bones) -
correct answer ✔✔1st rib fx, Sternal fx, axial loading injuries
Axial loading injuries - correct answer ✔✔Check heel fx, then check spine, cervical and thoracic
Bladder rupture usually occurs from - correct answer ✔✔a pelvic fx
If prostate is high or to side assume - correct answer ✔✔Urethral trauma; get scan first
what type of scan is appropriate for bladder - correct answer ✔✔CT
Gastritis long term - correct answer ✔✔Pain relieved when eating bc food absorbs acid
Duodenal ulcer - correct answer ✔✔Pain before meals
