The doctor orders 1,000 ml of Normal Saline to infuse at 200 ml/hr.  How many hours should it take to infuse?  

A client who sustained multiple injuries in a motor vehicle crash is brought to the emergency department.  After the primary survey, what action should the nurse take next?  

The nurse is caring for a client who came to the emergency department with acute respiratory distress. Which information requires an immediate action by the nurse?   

After the death of a 36 year old man from a massive head injury, what would be appropriate for the nurse to do?

A patient has Arterial Blood Gas results of pH 7.28, PaO2 52, SaO2 84%, PaCO2 55, HCO3 24.  Which interpretation of these results by the nurse is most correct?

To evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed therapies for a client with ventilatory failure, which diagnostic test will be most useful to the nurse?

A client is admitted with full-thickness burns covering 60% of their total body surface area. Which of the following orders should the nurse question during the emergent phase of care?

Ten minutes after recieving an intravenous antibiotic, the nurses notes that a client has edematous lips and expiratory stridor with the following vital signs:  Blood pressure 70/40 mm Hg, heart rate 130 beats/min, and respirations 36 breaths/min. Which action by the nurse is priority?

A client’s 1,000 ml IV infusion was started at 0500 infusing at 125ml/hr. What time should the IV be completed? 

A new nurse asked her preceptor which patient situation would therapeutic hypothermia be started in the emergency department?