NURSING 172 CORE EXAMS SET UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Treatment of air embolism - ✔✔Administer oxygen
Call rapid response team
Monitor vital signs
Place patient on left side and Trendelenburg position
✔✔Septicemia signs and symptoms (systemic) - ✔✔Hypoxemia
Increase heart rate
Decreased urine output
Elevated white blood cell
Increased respiration
Decrease pulse o patient has chills
✔✔Treatment for septicemia - ✔✔Assume lab order save piece of catheter before
throwing away
✔✔Signs and symptoms of speed shock - ✔✔Dizziness
Facial Flushing
Severe pounding headache (feels like brain freeze)
Tightness in chest
Hypotension
✔✔Treatment of speed shock - ✔✔Stop and fusion
Get help
Emergency Equipment
Give antidote
✔✔What is the IV piggyback - ✔✔Secondary IV solution
Hung higher than primary IV solution
✔✔Steps of insertion of over the needle catheter - ✔✔Catheter over the needle inserted
together
Catheter Advance over the needle
Needle removed
Catheter in place
✔✔What is dextrose - ✔✔Bear's body protein
May cause vein irritation
✔✔What do you do before hanging dextrose - ✔✔Check compatibility of medication
✔✔What can dextran cause - ✔✔Anaphylaxis
, ✔✔Albumin - ✔✔Free of danger for transmitting hepatitis
May cause pulmonary edema
Improves cardiac output
Raises serum protein
Acts as a transport protein
Albumin 5% isotonic
Albumin 25% hypertonic
✔✔What do you monitor for albumin 25% hypertonic - ✔✔Monitor for fluid volume
overload
Monitor for tachycardia
Shortness of breath
Crackle
✔✔Transfusion-assosiated graft vs host disease - ✔✔T lymphocytes in the transfused
component engraft in the recipient and react against recipient tissue antogents
✔✔Who is at risk for Transfusion-assosiated graft vs host disease -
✔✔Immunocompromised
Immunideficiency ( leukemia, lymphoma, use of immunosuppressive drugs.)
Symptoms occur 8 to 10 days
Death from bleeding or infection occurs within 3 weeks
✔✔Blood gauge - ✔✔Larger volume can be delivered in the least amount of time if
catheter has a large lumen 16 to 18 gauge
✔✔Universal recipient - ✔✔Ab+
✔✔Universal donor - ✔✔O-
✔✔What antibodies does B blood have - ✔✔Anti a antibodies
✔✔What antibodies does a blood have - ✔✔Anti b antibodies
✔✔What antibodies does ab have - ✔✔None
✔✔What antibodies does O blood have - ✔✔Anti a and anti b antibodies
✔✔What blood can a RH positive person receive - ✔✔Rh -
✔✔What blood can a negative get - ✔✔Negative can only get negative blood
✔✔What blood can a positive blood type - ✔✔Positive and negative
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Treatment of air embolism - ✔✔Administer oxygen
Call rapid response team
Monitor vital signs
Place patient on left side and Trendelenburg position
✔✔Septicemia signs and symptoms (systemic) - ✔✔Hypoxemia
Increase heart rate
Decreased urine output
Elevated white blood cell
Increased respiration
Decrease pulse o patient has chills
✔✔Treatment for septicemia - ✔✔Assume lab order save piece of catheter before
throwing away
✔✔Signs and symptoms of speed shock - ✔✔Dizziness
Facial Flushing
Severe pounding headache (feels like brain freeze)
Tightness in chest
Hypotension
✔✔Treatment of speed shock - ✔✔Stop and fusion
Get help
Emergency Equipment
Give antidote
✔✔What is the IV piggyback - ✔✔Secondary IV solution
Hung higher than primary IV solution
✔✔Steps of insertion of over the needle catheter - ✔✔Catheter over the needle inserted
together
Catheter Advance over the needle
Needle removed
Catheter in place
✔✔What is dextrose - ✔✔Bear's body protein
May cause vein irritation
✔✔What do you do before hanging dextrose - ✔✔Check compatibility of medication
✔✔What can dextran cause - ✔✔Anaphylaxis
, ✔✔Albumin - ✔✔Free of danger for transmitting hepatitis
May cause pulmonary edema
Improves cardiac output
Raises serum protein
Acts as a transport protein
Albumin 5% isotonic
Albumin 25% hypertonic
✔✔What do you monitor for albumin 25% hypertonic - ✔✔Monitor for fluid volume
overload
Monitor for tachycardia
Shortness of breath
Crackle
✔✔Transfusion-assosiated graft vs host disease - ✔✔T lymphocytes in the transfused
component engraft in the recipient and react against recipient tissue antogents
✔✔Who is at risk for Transfusion-assosiated graft vs host disease -
✔✔Immunocompromised
Immunideficiency ( leukemia, lymphoma, use of immunosuppressive drugs.)
Symptoms occur 8 to 10 days
Death from bleeding or infection occurs within 3 weeks
✔✔Blood gauge - ✔✔Larger volume can be delivered in the least amount of time if
catheter has a large lumen 16 to 18 gauge
✔✔Universal recipient - ✔✔Ab+
✔✔Universal donor - ✔✔O-
✔✔What antibodies does B blood have - ✔✔Anti a antibodies
✔✔What antibodies does a blood have - ✔✔Anti b antibodies
✔✔What antibodies does ab have - ✔✔None
✔✔What antibodies does O blood have - ✔✔Anti a and anti b antibodies
✔✔What blood can a RH positive person receive - ✔✔Rh -
✔✔What blood can a negative get - ✔✔Negative can only get negative blood
✔✔What blood can a positive blood type - ✔✔Positive and negative
