Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) for Certified Emergency Nursing (CEN)

The nurse assesses a patient at risk for respiratory failure. All of the following are early signs of respiratory failure except:

Which nursing diagnostic category would be appropriate for a patient with COPD?

The patient wonders aloud whether it is too late to quit smoking. The nurse correctly explains that if the patient stops smoking now:

Chronic cough is common in COPD. When planning the discharge instructions for a patient with COPD, the nurse should remember to advise the patient to avoid:

The nurse would suspect dyspnea in a patient with a stab wound in the left upper abdominal quadrant to result from:

Acute respiratory failure in a patient with essentially normal lung tissue usually is indicated by:

When assessing a patient with acute respiratory failure resulting from impaired ventilation, the nurse would initially expect to note:

The nurse knows that cor pulmonale is a complication of COPD secondary to:

Which term best describes the condition of a patient with the above medical history and evidence of alveolar destruction?

The nurse would anticipate initial emergency treatment for a patient with mild to moderate respiratory distress secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to include: