The nurse is admitting a patient, weighing 200 lbs that hit a telephone pole with a car traveling at approximately 25 miles per hour. The nurse would calculate this patient's pounds per square inch of impact to be
1. 5000.
2. 2500.
3. 2272.
4. 1250.
1
Rationale: To calculate pounds per square inch of impact, the nurse would multiply the patient's weight by the speed the car was traveling. For this situation, the calculation would be 200 lbs x 25 miles per hour which means the patient sustained 5000 lbs per square inch of impact. The other responses are incorrect calculations.
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