Final Exam Review Ch. 13

Your patient is in cardiac arrest. You are focused on initiating CPR, managing the airway, and, if necessary, defibrillating as soon as possible. Your step-by-step approach of data processing in this situation is best called:

• divergent

• reactive

• convergent

• reflective

Your patient is emotionally distraught with a long, complicated medical history and presents with multiple problems. You consider the physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of her condition. This type of data processing is called:

• reactive

• reflective

• convergent

• divergent

After a call, you discuss the patient with the emergency department physician, comparing diagnoses and care plans. This is an example of:

• applying principles

• evaluating

• reflecting

• putting it all together

In critical decision making, addressing life threats as they are found is an example of:

• reviewing

• re-evaluating

• reacting

• reading

You arrive at a location and begin to read the scene by:

• addressing life threats.

• approaching the patient.

• conducting a focused exam.

• observing the immediate surroundings.

You are evaluating a patient who was in a motor vehicle collision. You determine that the patient is responsive to pain only. He has a partially amputated arm at the elbow, a possible pelvic fracture, and a flail chest. You classify this patient's condition as:

• non-life-threatening.

• expectant.

• potentially life-threatening.

• critically life-threatening.

During the ongoing assessment of a stable patient, you should recheck vital signs every 15 minutes. This is an example of:

• applying principles

• reviewing

• evaluating

• reflecting

The first step in critical thinking is to:

• determine statistically significant conditions.

• form a concept.

• conduct a focused exam.

• ascertain the chief complaint.

Changing or stopping interventions that are NOT working is an example of:

• reviewing your performance.

• revising the management plan.

• reading the patient.

• re-evaluating.

As you survey the scene, you are gathering information about your patient and the scene. This step in the critical decision-making process is called:

• evaluating results.

• interpreting the data.

• reflecting on the incident.

• forming a concept.