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What is the best way to protect patients from infection?

Standard Precautions should be used

The defibrillator isn’t charging during a code. What do you do?

After setting up a ventilator you turn on the heater and immediately smell something burning. What do you do next?

A housekeeper just spilled a bottle of bleach in your patients room. Your first action is to:

A bottle of glutaraldehyde has been spilled in the dirty equipment room. Where would you look for information on how
to clean it up?

SDS’s should be consulted:

Hazardous chemicals are used:

You need to plug in a ventilator. Which color receptacle should you use?

What does it mean when a receptacle in a hospital is red?

A patient wants to use their home CPAP machine at the hospital. He is used to it and it will save him some money versus
using hospital equipment.

Why do you NOT want to have oxygen blowing across a patient’s chest during a defibrillation attempt?

What do you do if the fire alarms go off where you are working?

All portable fire extinguishers in use today are operated in the upright position. To operate the fire extinguisher,
the acronym P.A.S.S. is often used to help us remember to ____________________________.

What is the hospital-approved method that you may use to perform hand hygiene?

Standard Precautions is a program that:

Your patient is in droplet isolation. How should you protect yourself?

If the outside of a red disposal bag becomes contaminated, what should you do?

If a potential exposure incident occurs:

The following items could be considered a physical restraint:

A patient wearing a wrist restraint complains of numbness and tingling in his hand. The hand is cool and cyanotic. What action should the health care practitioner take first?

A confused patient has pulled out his intravenous line on several occasions. The physician gives the order for a restraint. What is the most appropriate restraint for the nurse to use?

Which of the following is a correct conversion between units?

A steroid that is packaged in combination with salmeterol as Advair is:

The drug montelukast (Singulair) is classified as a ______

Your patient informs you that she keeps her albuterol MDI stored in her refrigerator, for she feels that this may keep the medication “fresher” for a longer period of time. What is your response?

Examples of Protected Health Information (PHI) include:

You work at a hospital where your sister’s best friend just had triple bypass surgery. Your sister asks you to find out his prognosis. What should you do?

Proper protection of Protected Health Information may include which of the following?

You sit down to chart and notice the person before you didn’t log-off. You decide to leave it alone and use another
computer, thinking the person will probably be right back. Later, a patient views the computer screen and sees what
has been written. Who is responsible for this breech of patient privacy?

Indications of proper endotracheal intubation include all of the following EXCEPT:

A normal adult capnographic measurement should be approximately:

You are asked to insert an NPA. How would you determine the correct length to use?

What is the normal range for arterial pH?

What would be normal PCO2 values?

The puncture site for a radial ABG should be compressed, post-puncture, for____ if no clotting problems exist.

In order of preference, the available sites for obtaining an arterial blood gas sample are:

Competency assessment includes demonstration of:

Age-specific care for the neonate includes which of the following:

Age-specific care for the infant includes which of the following:

Age-specific care for the toddler includes which of the following:

Age-specific care for children includes all of the following except:

Age-specific care for adolescents includes which of the following:

Age-specific care for adult patients includes which of the following:

Age-specific care for geriatric patients includes which of the following:

A CPR is ongoing on a 76 y/o female. At 2 minutes the rhythm is re-analyzed as V-Fib and a shock is delivered. How should you proceed?

You are administering CPR on a child when another rescuer arrives with an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED).
The AED only has adult pads. You should?

You find an unresponsive child who’s not breathing & has no heart rate. What should you do?

You’re working in a sub-acute facility when you’re summoned to the bedside of an unresponsive patient. You
determine that the patient does NOT have a heart rate and is also NOT breathing. A standard AED is being retrieved &
EMS has been called. What action should you take?

You are performing CPR on a 57 y/o male. The patient doesn’t have a pulse and is not breathing. The AED states NO shock advised. What should you do?