1. You are assisting a primary nurse with charcoal administration down an orogastric tube. The room measures eight feet by twelve feet. The patient starts to retch before the tube is pulled. Knowing that charcoal can spew out of a tube in a five foot radius (even with a thumb over the opening) and the stretcher is two feet wide, how many feet per second do you have to back up to get less charcoal on you than the primary nurse?
2. Doctor A picks up a chart out of the rack. S/he finds that it
is a repeat patient with abdominal pain. Doctor A puts the chart back. Doctor B picks up
the chart five minutes later and also returns it to the rack. Doctor A leaves the nurses'
station heading south at three miles per hour. Doctor B leaves the nurses station for the
doctors' lounge at five miles per hour. How long before the patient is at equal distance
from Doctor A and Doctor B?
3. You were assigned two large treatment rooms and the gynecologic room. By the end of the
day you have cared for ten patients. Four patients were female over the age of 80, all
complaining of weakness. Two patients were male, ages 72 and 50. The last four were
female, between the ages of 24 and 40, all complaining of abdominal pain. It is 3:00 p.m.
and time to restock the rooms. How many bedpans will you need?
4. You are the primary nurse for an elderly patient with congestive heart failure. The IV
stick was exceptionally difficult, but you are able to start an 18 gauge catheter on the
second attempt. You leave the room to check on another patient. A relative thinks that the
IV has stopped dripping and opens the clamp. How much IV fluid will infuse before you
return?
5. You are sent for your morning coffee break. You need to use the restroom but can't find
one unoccupied and have to walk down to the lobby. The coffee pot is dry and you have to
make more. When you get to the cafeteria, the line extends ten feet into the hallway. You
can't remember exactly when your break began. How much time do you have left?
6. You are the primary nurse taking care of a particularly shy female in the gynecology
room. Her private physician arrives to see her, but you can see that he is not in a
particularly good mood. After much coaxing, the patient agrees to a pelvic exam. How many
people will open the door during the exam?
7. An elderly man arrives in the Emergency Department by rescue squad. Twenty minutes
later his wife arrives and registers him. She is shown the entrance to the department and
slowly shuffles in. How many rooms will she walk into before she finds him?
8. You are assigned to the EENT room. You have a patient to be checked for a peritonsillar
abscess. The ENT physician has been paged and expects to arrive in 45 minutes. Three hours
later, he arrives and is at the patient's side, asking for a flashlight. Lightly jogging
at 22 miles per hour, how many rooms will you have to search before you find one?
9. You have been asked to cover a coworker's rooms during her break. One of her patients
is an elderly, confused male with an enlarged prostate. A catheter has been inserted and
his physician is coming to see him. Somehow he manages to get off the stretcher. The
drainage bag is firmly hooked to the side rail. Knowing that the catheter is 16 inches
long and the drainage tubing is three feet long, will he be able to reach the door before
pulling out the catheter?
10. A college student named Muffy is brought to the Emergency Department with a sore
throat. She has no relatives in the area. Will there be enough chairs in the waiting room
for deeply concerned significant others?