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You assess a patient with COPD and find the patient to have a respiratory rate of 24 breaths per minute.  This respiratory rate is characterized as:

When obtaining a respiratory rate, the nurse should:

Patients with emphysema have__________________expiration cycles

When a patient is experiencing severe shortness of breath, what is the preferential recovery position?

Rales can also be described as:

Pediatric patients less than 12 months old have respiratory rates that are ________________ than adult patients.

Solution list
Question 1

You assess a patient with COPD and find the patient to have a respiratory rate of 24 breaths per minute.  This respiratory rate is characterized as:

Tachypnea

Question 2

When obtaining a respiratory rate, the nurse should:

Obtain the respiratory rate over a full minute

Question 3

Patients with emphysema have__________________expiration cycles

Prolonged

Question 4

When a patient is experiencing severe shortness of breath, what is the preferential recovery position?

Tripod

Question 5

Rales can also be described as:

fine crackles

Question 6

Pediatric patients less than 12 months old have respiratory rates that are ________________ than adult patients.

faster