Which manifestations in a client receiving oxygen therapy at 60% for more than 24 hours would alert the nurse to the possibility of oxygen toxicity?

A patient who suffered a head injury is intubated and receiving mechanical ventilation via the Assist Control (AC) mode.  The nurse understands that this means which of the following?

A nurse is caring for a patient who has a tracheostomy tube in place. During routine trach care, which of the following should the nurse place underneath the flanges of the outer cannula?

A nurse is assisting an anesthetist during the intubation of a client. The anesthetist visualizes the vocal cords with the laryngoscope and says to the nurse, “This is an easy one. Why don’t you give it a try?” indicating that the nurse should insert the endotracheal tube. What would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?

Which of the following interventions is a strategy to prevent fat embolism syndrome?

Your patient has the following ABG results: pH 7.31, PaO2 82, PaCO2 68, HCO3 24. The nurse anticipates the following change to be made initially to the ventilator settings:

A patient is being mechanically ventilated in the synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation mode at a rate of 4 breaths/min. His spontaneous respirations are 12 breaths/min. He receives a dose of morphine sulfate, and his spontaneous respirations decrease to 4 breaths/min. What adjustments may need to be made to the patient’s ventilator settings?

Which ABG results is interpreted as a fully compensated metabolic acidosis?

Before weaning a client from a ventilator, which assessment parameter is the most important for the nurse to obtain?

Treatment and/or prevention of rhabdomyolysis in at-risk patients includes aggressive fluid resuscitation to achieve urine output of :