The best location for performing venipuncture on a hospitalized 7-year-old is:
A) in a hospital playroom especially designed for children
B) at the child's bedside or in a chair in the child's hospital room
C) in a treatment room
D) in his or her bed
Answer: C
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A) Excessive and uncharacteristic irritability B) Request to be scheduled for night shifts C) Interest in going back to school to study accounting D) Statement that he intends to drop to part-time status
It has been some time since you were involved in the care of a pediatric patient. You decide to review the assessment and treatment basics that your medical director requires. To review this information, which resource should you consult first?
A) Emergency Medical Responders B) Reputable websites C) Emergency department nurses D) Service protocols
A manual hemoglobin is determined on a patient, and the dilution still appears turbid after letting it sit for 15 minutes. The stained blood film is examined, and sickle cells are observed on the blood film
Equal volumes of the diluted hemoglobin sample and water are mixed together, and the absorbance of this read on a spectrophotometer. How should the hemoglobin result be determined from the standard calibrated graph? a. Add the results from the turbid and second dilution together and divide by 2. b. Multiply the result obtained from the graph on the diluted specimen by 2. c. Divide the result obtained from the graph on the diluted specimen by 2. d. There was no reason to perform this second dilution.
According to Chapter 3, understanding the different roles in your life is important because a. having too many roles can cause stress
b. your roles may change over time. c. your roles are different from those of your classmates. d. there are appropriate and inappropriate behaviors for each role.