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NUR 2243 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) EXAM 3 | GRADED A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (SOLVED)
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NUR 2243 Exam 31. During a mass casualty event, what is the responsibility of management to provide to staff?
Answer
Food, water, support
2. When a hospital expects to receive a large number of casualties they will often
Answer
Discharge or transfer more stable pts (rehab, wound care)
Less stable pts (chest pain, resp issues, or infection) will stay at hospital
3. When disaster is over and "stand down" order is given, what is man- agement's
responsibility?
Answer
Checking supplies and personnel to ensure there is enough for normal hospital functioning
4. After mass casualty or trauma incidents, staff are constantly calling out of work and there is
tension between staff. What should management do?
Answer
- Arrange for stress debriefing; these are signs of staff PTSD
5. After a mass casualty event, staff should be
Answer
,debriefed in confidential environ- ment where they can speak freely
6. DMAT team is made up of and their purpose is to
Answer
Civilian medical, paraprofessional, and support personnel deployed to disaster area with enough
supplies and medical equipment to sustain operations for 72 hours; employed by government
7. Red/emergent/class I
Answer
- Immediate threat to life
- Ex
gunshot wound, resp distress, SOB, chest pain with diaphoresis
8. Yellow/urgent/class II
Answer
- Can wait 20 mins-2 hrs
- Need quick tx, but not life-threatening
- Ex
, elderly with cough and temp (new resp infection), fracture w/ good distal pulse, partial thickness
burns, single spinal injury, abd pain
9. Green/non-urgent/class III
Answer
- Could wait several hours if needed without fear of deterioration
- Ex
homeless man with rash, sprain, colds, simple fractures, head laceration
10. Black/class IV
Answer
- Expected to die/already dead
- Ex
full thickness full body burn, massive head trauma, high cervical cord injury
**extensive resources not used for black tag pt
11. A pt comes to the ED with cough and bloody sputum. Where should this pt be placed while
awaiting test results?
Answer
Negative pressure room; suspect TB
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