A nurse is caring for a patient in the emergency department following a motor vehicle accident. The patient quickly decompensates with worsening dyspnea, hypoxemia, and cough with bloody sputum. Which is the priority nursing action?
Prepare for chest tube insertion.
Obtain a CT scan.
Insert a large-bore IV.
Draw and send type and screen blood tests.
Be sure to consider describing words like first, next, before, and after in questions. (In this case, it is the word priority.) They indicate that there is one particular correct answer, even if the other answer choices may be related to the question.
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