Chapter 39 Oxygenation

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A nurse is volunteering at a day camp. A child is stung by a bee and develops wheezing in the upper airways. The child is experiencing:

Bronchospasm

When reviewing data collection on a client with a cardiac output of 2.5 L/minute, the nurse inspects the client for which symptom?

Rapid Respirations - normal cardiac output is 3.5 L/minute to 8.0 L/minute. With decreased cardiac output, the body will compensate by increasing respiratory rate to increase oxygen perfusion.

The newly hired nurse is caring for a client who had a tracheostomy four hours ago. Which action by the nurse would cause the charge nurse to intervene?

The newly hired nurse delegates care of the tracheostomy to a licensed practical/vocational nurse (LPN/LVN). Care of a tracheostomy may be done by the LPN/LVN in a long term setting such as a hospice. In the acute setting, nurses are the only ones allowed.

After insertion of a chest tube, fluctuations in the water-seal chamber that correspond with inspiration and expiration are an expected and normal finding. False True

True


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