CCRN Nursing Exam Prep - Adult Critical Care - Question List

36. You are encouraging your postoperative patient to cough and take deep breaths. The patient questions why it is so important to do this. Your response would include the understanding that retaining pulmonary secretions can lead to:

37.

You have delegated care of a patient in restraints to a nursing assistant. How often should the nursing assistant inspect skin integrity for this patient?

38. Mr. Sanchez visited a clinic for his timely medical check-up and brought with him his hematology result. He informed the nurse that his physician is trying to assess him for polycythemia vera. The laboratory findings for a client with polycythemia vera include major and minor criteria. What is the major or defining hematological finding?

39. The nurse is encouraging a client who has undergone an amputation to immediately fit a prosthesis. The advantage for this immediate action is:

40.

Which assessment finding by the nurse has the most serious implication for a 70-year-old client with emphysema?