Question: The use of enzymatic agents to digest dead tissue is known as mechanical debridement.
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ True ☐ False
Answer:\n☑ False
Question: While performing wound care on a third-degree burn, the nurse notes a 5cm zone of stasis. The nurse understands that:
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ this represents irreversible tissue loss ☐ this is a common finding after a wound graft surgery ☐ it is likely that this tissue will be completely healed ☐ the tissue in this zone is potentially salvageable
Answer:\n☑ the tissue in this zone is potentially salvageable
Question: Question 13: Match each word to the correct definition: Correct Answer: urinary frequency → voiding more frequently than every 3 hours urinary urgency → a sudden need to void dysuria → pain with urination hesitancy → slow to start a stream of urine hematuria → blood in the urine oliguria → urine output less than 400 mL in 24 hours polyuria → urine output is greater than input enuresis → bedwetting incontinence → inability to stop urine stream
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Question: A 49 year-old man presents to the Emergency Department with burns to the face, hands, and arms. The most common causative agents of thermal burns include: (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ moist heat ☐ compressed gas ☐ fire ☐ electricity ☐ high doses of topical medications
Answer:\n☑ moist heat ☑ fire
Question: A patient with a GFR of 42 mg/mmol and AKD. This lab value is ______ and developed from a ______ cause.
Answer Choices:\n\nFirst blank: low, high, normal Second blank: prerenal, renal, postrenal
Answer:\nlow renal
Question: A patient is admitted to intensive care post femur fracture repair with 400 mL blood loss and low urine output. What is the cause of AKI?
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ bone infection ☐ post-renal causes ☐ renal causes ☐ prerenal causes
Answer:\n☑ prerenal causes
Question: A patient suffered from burns that involved his entire right leg. What is the approximate percentage of body surface area affected by this burn?
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ 9% ☐ 18% ☐ 36% ☐ 1%
Answer:\n☑ 18%
Question: A nurse is caring for a patient suffering from second and third-degree burns on 36% of his body. Which of the following actions would the nurse expect to perform? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ insert Foley catheter ☐ maintain room temperature at 62°F ☐ initiate enteral feedings via nasogastric tube ☐ decrease protein intake ☐ initiate intravenous fluids
Answer:\n☑ insert Foley catheter ☑ initiate enteral feedings via nasogastric tube ☑ initiate intravenous fluids
Question: A 32-year-old female is rescued from a burning building. The priority for this patient is:
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ remove smoldering clothing from the body ☐ ensure that the patient has a patent airway ☐ initiate intravenous fluids ☐ transporting the patient to a hospital with a burn unit
Answer:\n☑ ensure that the patient has a patent airway
Question: A therapeutic measure used to prevent hypertrophic scarring during the rehabilitation phase of burn recovery is:
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ applying pressure garments ☐ repositioning the patient every two hours ☐ passive range of motion ☐ application of water-based moisturizers
Answer:\n☑ applying pressure garments
Question: A patient is brought to the emergency room with third-degree burns. A practical goal within the first 24 hours of injury would be:
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ restoration of plasma levels ☐ urine output of 30 mL/hr ☐ surgical debridement performed ☐ wound graft performed
Answer:\n☑ urine output of 30 mL/hr
Question: A 22-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department after contact with a steam pipe at work. The patient complains of pain and hyperesthesia. Weeping edema is noted.
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ first-degree ☐ second-degree ☐ third-degree ☐ fourth-degree
Answer:\n☑ second-degree
Question: Interpret the following EKG:
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ Sinus Arrhythmia ☐ Second Degree Type I, Wenckebach ☐ Second Degree, Type II, Mobitz II ☐ Junctional Rhythm
Answer:\nCannot determine without image
Question: Ibuprofen is the medication of choice for pain control for a patient with renal disease.
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ True ☐ False
Answer:\n☑ False
Question: A patient with AKI has BP 82/53 mm Hg and urine output of 3,000 mL/day. What indicates progression to recovery?
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ increase in glomerular filtration rate ☐ increase in BUN and creatinine ☐ potassium level increasing to 5.9 mEq/L ☐ increase in urine output to 3,500 mL/day
Answer:\n☑ increase in glomerular filtration rate
Question: A 52 year-old-female is admitted to the ICU with third-degree burns over 25% of her body, including her face. Two days later, she develops respiratory distress.
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ tracheal burns ☐ pneumonia ☐ acute respiratory distress syndrome ☐ pulmonary embolism
Answer:\n☑ acute respiratory distress syndrome
Question: Interpret the following ABG: pH 7.47, CO₂ 18 mm Hg, HCO₃⁻ 12 mEq/L
Answer Choices:\n\n☐ Respiratory acidosis with partial compensation ☐ Respiratory alkalosis with partial compensation ☐ Metabolic acidosis with partial compensation ☐ Metabolic alkalosis with partial compensation
Answer:\n☑ Respiratory alkalosis with partial compensation