A Patient Is Unable to Maintain a Clear Airway Effectively

question 21

Multiple Choice

A patient is unable to maintain a clear airway effectively with coughing and has a respiratory rate of 22/min with coarse crackles bilaterally.Which intervention should the nurse provide first?

• A) Encourage fluids.
• B) Encourage bedrest.
• C) Perform tracheal suctioning.
• D) Assess the patient's coughing technique.

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Definitions:

Sociolinguistic Competence

Knowledge of the implicit rules for generating socially appropriate sentences that make sense because they fit the listeners’ social knowledge.

Speech Act Theory

The theory that verbal utterances both state something and do something.

Intentionalist Model

A theory that views communication as the exchange of communicative intentions and views messages transmitted as merely the means to this end.

Encoder-Decoder

A model in communications and information processing that describes the process of transferring information from a sender (encoder) to a receiver (decoder).