FREE TC-Registered Nurse Questions and Answers

Question 1

Which of the following patients is least likely to require monitoring of intracranial pressure?

Accepted Answer

Fifty-year old female with head injury, Glasgow coma score of 14, and BP of 95/60.

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Forty-five-year-old head injury patient with BP of 80/40 and unilateral posturing.

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Four-year old with extensive subarachnoid hemorrhage.

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Sixteen-year-old with acute head injury and unable to follow commands.

Question 2

Of the following, which is a strict no-no for nasotracheal intubation?

Accepted Answer

Apnea.

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Facial trauma.

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Skull fracture.

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Cervical spine injury

Question 3

The patient's temperature should typically be decreased and maintained at? with targeted temperature management (TTM), also known as therapeutic hypothermia.

Accepted Answer

32 to 36° C.

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30 to 32° C.

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24 to 28° C.

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28 to 30° C.

Question 4

Which of the following best describes the statement made by a coworker to a recently recruited trauma nurse: "The suggestions you made were a complete waste of time, and if you want to get along with the staff you need to stop trying to make changes."

Accepted Answer

Horizontal/Lateral violence.

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Advice.

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Vertical violence.

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Discrimination.

Question 5

What does the trauma nurse anticipate the patient to do if the paramedic reports that a patient is in transit with a Glasgow Coma Score of 7?

Accepted Answer

be intubated and comatose.

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exhibit focal neurological defects.

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have had brief periods of loss of consciousness but to be alert and responsive.

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remain slightly confused but able to follow verbal direction.

Question 6

Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is most commonly used to:

Accepted Answer

reduce the risk of gastric aspiration.

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speed intubation.

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reduce tracheal trauma.

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prevent esophageal trauma.

Question 7

How much mL of fluid should be given during the first eight hours if a burn patient's fluid resuscitation needs have been determined as 12,000 mL/24 hours using the burn/Baxter formula (4 mL of LR X kg body weight X TBSA burned)?

Accepted Answer

6000 mL.

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8000 mL.

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4000 mL.

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3000 mL.