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Your patient is a 60-year-old female restrained driver involved in a moderate-speed frontal impact collision. When you arrive at the scene, she is sitting up in the driver’s seat with a chief complaint of a burning sensation in her face. You note abrasions from deployment of the airbag. After immobilizing the patient on a long backboard, you begin transport. As you perform a detailed examination, the patient complains of developing right shoulder pain. Which of the following should you suspect?

All of the following are used in the sedation of patients for rapid sequence intubation, EXCEPT:

Which of the following best describes the function of cancellous bone of the medullary canal?

Which of the following is the primary concern in the patient with a hemothorax?

Which of the following is MOST likely to occur as a result of rapid deceleration without actual contact between the patient’s body and the interior of the vehicle?

A nurse caring for a patient with sickle cell disease (SCD) reviews the patient’s laboratory work. Which finding should the nurse report to the provider?

A patient is on a dopamine infusion via a peripheral line. What action by the nurse takes priority for safety?

A patient has been diagnosed with a deep-vein thrombosis and is to be discharged on warfarin (Coumadin). The patient is adamant about refusing the drug because “it’s dangerous.” What action by the nurse is best?

The nurse is caring for a patient with a chest tube after a coronary artery bypass graft. The drainage slows significantly. What action by the nurse is most important?

An older patient with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) is explaining the daily foot care regimen to the family practice clinic nurse. What statement by the patient may indicate a barrier to proper foot care?