[Answered]: Just after starting your 12-hour shift at 7:00 pm…

Just after starting your 12-hour shift at 7:00 pm (1900), you get a phone call in the Respiratory Care Department to help in the Emergency Department (ED). You and a nurse go to see a new patient, Jane Stocking. She is an unconscious 30-year-old female who was driven to the ED by her wife, Paula Wilson. Paula reports that Jane has been very upset recently about losing her job. She has been unable to pay her share of the rent or for her asthma medications. Jane drank more wine than usual with dinner and took a double dose of her antianxiety medicine, Xanax. When Jane passed out and vomited, Paula drove her to the hospital. Dr. John Richards wants you and the nurse to do a quick assessment of the patient’s condition.