Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations B Quiz 3

A client is admitted with respiratory failure. The nurse is making an assessment and found out that this client does not have a history of respiratory disease. On further assessment, the nurse checks the arterial blood gas report. Which of the following results that are consistent with this disorder?

The client is admitted with chronic respiratory failure. The physician advised the client to use a metered dose inhaler. The client does not know how to use it correctly and asks the nurse to teach him. The nurse instructed the client to:

A nurse is assessing a client with multiple traumas who is at risk for developing acute respiratory distress syndrome. The nurse is familiar with the disease of the client assigned to him. The nurse would note on the assessment for which of the earliest sign of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

The nurse is assigned to take the pulmonary artery catheter measurement of a client with acute respiratory distress syndrome. The pulmonary capillary wedge pressure reading is 12 mmHg. The nurse concludes that this reading is:

A nurse is completing an assessment with a client with chronic airflow limitations and notes that the client has a “barrel chest”. The nurse expects that this client has which of the following forms of chronic airflow limitation?

The physician gave an order to the nurse to administer albuterol (Proventil) to a client. Before the administration of the drug, the nurse assesses which of the following parameter?

The home care nurse visits a client with respiratory disorder. The nurse has observed that the client is taking a dose of metaproterenol sulfate (Alupent) via metered dose inhaler. The client tells the nurse that it is a self administered dose. Within a short time, the client begins to wheeze loudly. The nurse tells the client that the wheezing is due to:

The physician ordered to the nurse to give a client metaproterenol (Alupent), 2 puffs, and beclomethasone (Vanceril), 2 puffs, by metered dose inhaler. The nurse administer the medication prescribed by the physician by giving the:

The physician gave an order to the nurse that the client must have a blood test. The client is receiving theophylline due to have a theophylline level drawn. The nurse question the client to ensure that the client has not ingested which of the following substances before the blood sample is drawn.

A client is starting a therapy with oxtriphylline (Choledyl). A nurse plans to teach the client to limit the intake of which of the following while taking the medication?