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CCRN Critical Care Nursing

Category - Adult

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What is the optimal nursing intervention that can help the patient with a pulmonary embolism improve their oxygenation?

Give them morphine to decrease pain
Administer diazepam to decrease anxiety
Turn the patient to their unaffected side
Increase the oxygen level until patient breathes easier

Explanation

Answer: C - The optimal nursing intervention that can help the patient in their oxygenation is to turn the patient to their unaffected side. This will help improve the patient’s ventilation and perfusion. Morphine and diazepam don’t address the oxygenation of the patient. Whether the oxygen should be increased is based on the patient.

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