Author: Anonymous

Your Dialysis patient is on a potassium-sparing diet.  The following foods should be monitored carefully and taken sparingly Except for: ______________________. 

A BNP is done on a patient who is suspected of having _______________________________.

Bowel sounds greater than 6 in less than 30 seconds is a criteria for what type of bowel sounds? 

Cranial Nerve # 3 (Oculomotor) is assessed when checking ___________________________. 

Your patient 25 years-old female patient is going for a Laparoscopic Appendectomy.  What is the only Lab test that is absolutely necessary for her, (unless otherwise ordered)?   (*Note she has a normal menstrual cycle)

Your patient on a simple mask at 6L / min has an O2 sat of 98%; he seems comfortable and in no distress, so it would be OK to turn the flow down to 4 L / min.

There are _______ Cranial Nerves. 

Use this new Information regarding the patient from prior Scenario for the next Few Questions. Put your Critical Thinking Hat on – not everything may be as it appears! It is now 2 days after the Right Hip Repair for the same 68 year-old female patient you admitted after her fall; you are back to work, not having seen the patient since prior to her surgery.  She seems to be recovering fairly well, but her mobility is not what the surgeon or P.T. are expecting at this time.  On your initial assessment during report she seemed a little tachypneic. These are this AM’s V/S from the CNA at 8 am:  T 101.3;  B/P 128/82;  P = 94;  R  26;  SaO2  92% on room air You call the PC physician with your concerns and he orders an ABG and chest x-ray, which showed infiltrates in the RLL, consistent with pneumonia. What ABG results would fit the scenario best if the CXR is correct? 

Your patient is on Coumadin (warfarin) because of a DVT. The physician would like to see the Therapeutic Range of the PT INR for this patient at _______________. 

The Treatment Modality that is considered an “Excreter” for Hyperkalemia is _______________________________. The others are known as “Shifters” or “Stabilizers”.