I took a quiz yesterday in which our instructor was just assessing our overall 'critical thinking'. She said she wasn't concerned with us knowing specifically which interventions to use for these patients, just how we would go about it. So I really felt like I knew they were bad situations, but didn't know what I was supposed to do, and was just looking for a little bit of help :)
1) You receive a patient who had a recent bowel resection and is complaining of pain at 8/10 even though just having received pain meds. The patient's systolic pressure rose from 70 to 130. What would you do?
2) You receive a patient who is post surgery, and has a chest tube. 800 mL of dark red discharge have gone into the chamber in the last hour, and the current vitals are 170/100, pulse 130. What do you do?
3) You receive a patient who is 2 hours post stent placement. They complain of a sharp chest pain at 5/10, and current vital signs are 160/84. What would you be doing for this patient?
Thank you! My inexperienced intuition was just assess and call the doctor. Lol.
