I recently completed my 2nd semester of nursing school and aced this semester:woot:
The one thing about finals that really sucks is the fact that you can not reveiw the questions that you got wrong along with the rationales. There was one question on my medsurg final that has stuck with me and I just can't quite figure out what the right answer would have been! I emailed my professor but she hasn't gotten back to me so I'm curious as to wehat you all would think.
The question was along the lines of:
There is a lung cancer patient who is waiting to be taken into surgery. While he waits he starts complaining that he is SOB and his O2 sats begin to drop. What should the nurse do NEXT?
A.) Turn up the oxygen flow rate
B.) Calm the patient using guided imagery
C.) Go and get the physician
D.) Call a code
I'm pretty sure the answer I picked was to calm the patient since you need an order to adjust oxygen flow rate. I didn't think C was right either since that would be leaving the patient alone and they could deteriorate while gone, and D is just obviously wrong.
