If a client can perform this gesture, he or she has the physical ability to perform voicing

A) Waving his or her hand
B) Licking her or his lips
C) Closing his or her velum
D) Coughing
E) b & c

D

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You have arrived on the scene at a high school football field where a 17-year-old male is lying on the ground. He is unresponsive and cyanotic, and he is making obvious respiratory effort without moving adequate amounts of air. Which of the following should be done first?

A) Assist ventilations with a bag-valve-mask device and supplemental oxygen. B) Open the patient's airway using a manual maneuver. C) Insert a nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal airway. D) Apply high-concentration oxygen by nonrebreather mask.

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After assessing a 40-year-old woman with severe abdominal pain and administering oxygen to her, you give a report to the incoming ambulance crew. The EMT approaches the patient and asks the same questions you had asked and reported. You should:

A) assume that you left out some important questions and apologize for not getting a better history. B) answer the questions again, as the EMT asks them of the patient. C) say nothing and report the unprofessional behavior to your supervisor. D) recognize that patients may add or change information when asked the same question a second time.

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