Chapter 38 Prep U Questions

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What is a normal respiratory rate for an infant?

30-55 breaths per min

The nurse auscultates a client with soft, high-pitched popping breath sounds on inspiration. The nurse documents the breath sounds heard as

Crackles

The nurse is caring for a client who is diagnosed with impaired gas exchange. While performing a physical assessment of the client, which data is the nurse likely to find, keeping in mind the client's diagnosis?

High respiratory rate

The nurse is performing an arterial blood gas sampling on a client at 10:45. The nurse educator intervenes if which action is taken by the nurse?

The Allen test

During data collection, the nurse auscultates low-pitched, soft sounds over the lungs' peripheral fields. Which appropriate terminology would the nurse use to describe these lung sounds when documenting?

Vesicular

The nurse is caring for a postoperative adult client who has developed pneumonia. The nurse should assess the client frequently for symptoms of?

Atelectasis

Which dietary guideline would be appropriate for the older adult homebound client with advanced respiratory disease who informs the nurse that she has no energy to eat?

Eat smaller meals that are high in protein

The client should consume a diet in which the body can produce plasma proteins. The client should have sufficient caloric and protein intake for respiratory muscle strength.

Inspiration and expiration

A client's primary care provider has informed the nurse that the client will require thoracentesis. The nurse should suspect that the client has developed which disorder of lung function?

Pleural effusion

When a nurse observes that an older client's skin is dry and shiny and his nails are thickened, the nurse determines that the client is most likely experiencing

Poor tissue perfusion

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

The nurse is teaching the client with a pulmonary disorder about deep breathing. The client asks, "Why is it important to start by breathing through my nose, then exhaling through my mouth?" Which appropriate response would the nurse give this client

"Breathing through your nose first will warm, filter, and humidify the air you are breathing."

To drain the apical sections of the upper lobes of the lungs, the nurse should place the client in which position?

High fowlers

The nurse is caring for a 2-year-old client who experienced smoke inhalation during a house file. When oxygen is ordered, what delivery device will the nurse gather?

Oxygen tent

While auscultating a client's chest, the nurse auscultates crackles in the lower lung bases. What condition does the nurse identify the client is experiencing?

Sputum in the trachea

When caring for a client with a tracheostomy, the nurse would perform which recommended action?

Suction the tracheostomy tube using sterile technique

The nurse is demonstrating oxygen administration to a client. What teaching will the nurse include about the flowmeter?

This is a gauge used to regulate the amount of oxygen that a client receives.

The nurse is caring for a client who was had a percutaneous tracheostomy (PCT) following a motor vehicle accident, and has been prescribed oxygen. What delivery device will the nurse select that is most appropriate for this client?

Tracheotomy collar


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