Reassessment includes:
A) repeating the primary assessment.
B) rechecking vital signs and the patient's complaints.
C) checking on the effects of interventions.
D) all of the above.
Question 2
Assuming each patient is unresponsive, not breathing, and shows no signs of circulation, in which one of the following situations should attempts at resuscitation be withheld?
A) A self-inflicted gunshot wound has destroyed the face and head above the lower jaw.
B) The patient's family says that they don't want him hooked up to a machine.
C) It is not known how long he has been this way (not breathing, no pulse), but his skin is warm.
D) The nursing home staff states the patient has a do not resuscitate order, but they are not able to find it.
B, The tubing of the medication is piggybacked to the primary tubing at the Y-port.
Critical thinking model for safety assessment
Historian James Merrell notes several errors in Benjamin West’s famous 1771 painting, William Penn’s
Select of Primary and Secondary Procedures
Assessment by Domain
Comparing Signs and Symptoms of Cold, Allergy, and the Flu