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What does ABCDE stand for? Airway Breathing Circulation Disability Exposure What are the different priorities in client care? 1. Life threatening illness 2. Safety 3. Client priorities 4. nurse priorities What are the two types of airway obstruction? Total: inability to make any sound. No coughin...

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NURS 370 Midterm Exam Questions and
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What does ABCDE stand for? ✅Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability
Exposure

What are the different priorities in client care? ✅1. Life threatening illness
2. Safety
3. Client priorities
4. nurse priorities

What are the two types of airway obstruction? ✅Total: inability to make any sound. No
coughing, talking, no breath sounds

Partial: increased WOB, changed voice, coughing, stridor

What can affect the patency of the airway? ✅LOC
Vomit
Blood
Teeth
Food
Small objects
C-spine

What are airway interventions? ✅Head tilt, chin lift
Semi-prone position
Suctioning
Endotracheal tube
Oropharyngeal

How would you assess breathing? ✅Respiratory rate
WOB
Chest wall movements
Chest percussion
Auscultation
O2 saturations

What are breathing interventions? ✅Fowler's
Supplemental

,Inhaled medications
Bag valve mask
Chest tubes

How do you assess circulation ✅skin colour
skin temperature
diaphoresis
cap refill
heart rate and rhythm
Heart sounds
Blood pressure
Bleeding

What are circulation interventions ✅IV fluids
Apply pressure to breathing
Repositioning
Medications

How do you assess Disability? ✅The neurological function of the patient. Can be
divided into

AVPU

Alert
Verbal
Pain
Unresponsive

Also includes GCS, blood glucose, and limb movements

How do you assess Exposure? ✅anything that has not been covered by ABCD

Observe the skin for signs of injury

Includes Edema and Core temperature

What are interventions for Exposure? ✅Medications (including antipyretics)
Stitches
Splints
Scopes
Skin tests

What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs? ✅human needs whereby the lower down the
hierarchy must be satisfied before attending to the higher up needs

From most important to least:

, Physiological
Safety
Love / Belonging
Esteem
Self-actualization

The first 4 are Needs or "Deficiency" "D" that need to be met

What are physiological needs? ✅Breathing
Circulation
Temperature
Elimination of wastes
Movement
Intake of food and fluids

What are safety needs? ✅Housing
Community
Climate
Family

What are love / belonging needs? ✅Relationships with others
Support system
Feeling loved by others
Communication with others

What are esteem needs? ✅Hope
Joy
Curiosity
Happiness
Accepting self

What are self actualization needs? ✅Thinking
Learning
Decision making
Values
Beliefs
Fulfillment
Helping others

What is health literacy? ✅the ability to access, comprehend, evaluate, and
communicate information to promote, maintain, and improve health in a variety of
settings across the life-span.

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