Emergency Nursing Orientation 3.0: Gastrointestinal
Emergencies - ENA-ENO-C07 Questions With Complete
Solutions
A patient is experiencing lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Which
diagnostic study should you prepare this patient for? Correct
Answers colonoscopy
A patient presents to the emergency department with abdominal
pain, coffee-ground emesis, and black, tarry stools. You should
suspect the patient has which condition? Correct Answers
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
A patient presents with sudden right upper quadrant pain that
radiates to her right shoulder after eating. You should suspect
the patient has which disorder? Correct Answers Cholecystitis
A patient with gastroenteritis is most likely to present with
which type of abdominal pain? Correct Answers Cramping
A patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease is at risk for
which complication? Correct Answers Pneumonia
A patient with upper gastrointestinal bleeding usually presents
with which sign or symptom? Correct Answers Hematemesis
A woman, age 27, presents to your emergency department with
chills, fever, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and tachycardia.
The abdominal pain becomes localized in her right lower
quadrant. What is your priority intervention? Correct Answers
Initiate intravenous access.
, During an abdominal assessment, what is the correct sequence
for performing the physical examination? Correct Answers
Inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation
During the abdominal assessment, which action should be
performed? Correct Answers Observe the patient's position.
Fatty, foul-smelling, frothy stools suggest which disorder?
Correct Answers Pancreatitis
For a patient with acute pancreatitis, which intervention is the
priority? Correct Answers Fluid resuscitation
For a patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease, the physician
may order which medication to promote gastric emptying
Correct Answers Bethanechol (Urecholine)
For a patient with gastroesophageal variceal bleeding, you
should expect the physician to order which medication? Correct
Answers Vasopressin (Pitressin)
For a patient with upper gastrointestinal bleeding from peptic
ulcer disease, you should expect to administer which medication
to control the bleeding? Correct Answers Pantoprazole
(Protonix)
In a patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD),
which of these is increased? Correct Answers Gastric
emptying time
Emergencies - ENA-ENO-C07 Questions With Complete
Solutions
A patient is experiencing lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Which
diagnostic study should you prepare this patient for? Correct
Answers colonoscopy
A patient presents to the emergency department with abdominal
pain, coffee-ground emesis, and black, tarry stools. You should
suspect the patient has which condition? Correct Answers
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
A patient presents with sudden right upper quadrant pain that
radiates to her right shoulder after eating. You should suspect
the patient has which disorder? Correct Answers Cholecystitis
A patient with gastroenteritis is most likely to present with
which type of abdominal pain? Correct Answers Cramping
A patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease is at risk for
which complication? Correct Answers Pneumonia
A patient with upper gastrointestinal bleeding usually presents
with which sign or symptom? Correct Answers Hematemesis
A woman, age 27, presents to your emergency department with
chills, fever, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and tachycardia.
The abdominal pain becomes localized in her right lower
quadrant. What is your priority intervention? Correct Answers
Initiate intravenous access.
, During an abdominal assessment, what is the correct sequence
for performing the physical examination? Correct Answers
Inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation
During the abdominal assessment, which action should be
performed? Correct Answers Observe the patient's position.
Fatty, foul-smelling, frothy stools suggest which disorder?
Correct Answers Pancreatitis
For a patient with acute pancreatitis, which intervention is the
priority? Correct Answers Fluid resuscitation
For a patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease, the physician
may order which medication to promote gastric emptying
Correct Answers Bethanechol (Urecholine)
For a patient with gastroesophageal variceal bleeding, you
should expect the physician to order which medication? Correct
Answers Vasopressin (Pitressin)
For a patient with upper gastrointestinal bleeding from peptic
ulcer disease, you should expect to administer which medication
to control the bleeding? Correct Answers Pantoprazole
(Protonix)
In a patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD),
which of these is increased? Correct Answers Gastric
emptying time
