Free BCEN BCEN-TCRN Exam Questions

A patient comes into the emergency department after gunshot wounds to the lower left lateral chest. A chest tube has been placed and the patient is transferred to the intensive care unit. While a handoff report is being conducted, the patient’s heart rate increases to 134 beats per minute and the patient begins breathing at 43 breaths per minute. The nurse notes that the chest tube drainage system is beginning to rapidly fill with blood. The team begins to prepare for autotransfusion. Which of the following would be a contraindication to autotranfusion?

Proper medical management of a traumatic brain injury patient includes all except:

Which of the following involves enhancing the quality of life in any stage and integrating physical, social, spiritual, and psychological aspects of care of patient/family who has been involved in a traumatic situation?

Which of the following is the 1986 federal law that requires anyone coming into an emergency department to be stabilized and treated, regardless of his or her insurance status or ability to pay?

Common organs injured in blunt mechanism abdominal trauma include all of the following except: