HONDROS questions well answered
What is ventilation? - correct answer ✔✔movement of air in and out of the lungs
What is transport? - correct answer ✔✔O2 and CO2 in blood
What is perfusion? - correct answer ✔✔blood flow.
What are the signs and symptoms for COPD? - correct answer ✔✔1. Barrel chest
2. Shortness of breath
3. Lungs Crackles
4. Clubbed fingers
What is Emphysema (COPD) Destruction and enlargement of air spaces Symptoms? - correct answer
✔✔1. Shortness of Breath
2.Wheezing
3.Chronic Cough
What are the treatments for Emphysema (COPD)? - correct answer ✔✔1. Self care
2. Bronchodilator
3.Albuterol inhaler
4. Prednisone- steroid
What are the signs and symptoms for Pneumonia (COPD)? - correct answer ✔✔1.Cough with phlegm or
sputum (Rusty colored)
2. Fever
3. Chills
,4. Difficulty breathing
What is the Treatment for Pneumonia (COPD)? - correct answer ✔✔1. Antibiotics
2. Vaccines
How long does a Nebulizer treatment last? - correct answer ✔✔8-10 min
What should we do after a patient before and after administering Albuterol/ Nebulizer breathing
treatments? And why. - correct answer ✔✔1. Auscultate the lungs (Listen) to ensure the treatment
worked.
2. Oral care
Nasal cannula flow rate (24 to 44%)? - correct answer ✔✔1-6 Per Minute L/min
Reservoir Nasal Cannula Flow Rate (24 to 60%)? - correct answer ✔✔1-15 per minute L/ min
Venturi Mask flow rate (24 to 60%)? - correct answer ✔✔4-12 Per minute L/min
normal range for potassium? - correct answer ✔✔3.5-5.0 mEq/L
Normal range for sodium? - correct answer ✔✔135-145 mEq/L
Normal range for Magnesium? - correct answer ✔✔1.5-2.5 mEq/L
normal range for calcium? - correct answer ✔✔8.5-10.5 mg/dL
Chvostek causes what? - correct answer ✔✔Facial muscle twitching
Trousseau sign causes what? - correct answer ✔✔Spasm at the wrist
, Which patient is at risk for Hyperkalemia? - correct answer ✔✔A patient with Addison's disease
Tall, peaked T waves, flat p waves, prolonged PR intervals and widened QRS complexes can present in
which of the following conditions? - correct answer ✔✔Hyperkalemia
A patient with NG TUBE suctioning is experiencing diarrhea. The patient is ordered a morning dose of
Lasix 20mg IV. patients' potassium level is 3.0 what is your next nursing intervention? - correct answer
✔✔Hold the dose of Lasix and notify the doctor for further orders.
A patients potassium level is 3.0 which foods would you encourage the patient to consume? - correct
answer ✔✔1. Avocados
2. Strawberries
3.Potatoes
What is one output we do not measure? - correct answer ✔✔Insensible water loss (breathing)
Too much fluid in and not enough fluid out often caused by HIV and kidney problems? - correct answer
✔✔Hypovolemia
How do we properly weigh a patient? - correct answer ✔✔1. weigh the same time of day
2. same clothing
3. same scale
A patient who has cool skin, loss of skin turgor and flattened neck veins is considered what? - correct
answer ✔✔Hypovolemia
Being hypervolemia (Dehydration) can be treated with what? - correct answer ✔✔1. fluids
2. IV
What is the breathing for help COPD patient? - correct answer ✔✔Pursed lip breathing