Nursing Interventions
This documentation is essential to evaluate the patient's fluid status.
What is strict I/O's?
3+ pitting lower extremity edema and distended abdomen.
What is right sided HF?
This medication class is widely used for symptomatic relief, but has no mortality benefit in heart failure patients.
What are diuretics?
Performed at the same time every morning using the same equipment and similar clothing/bedding, this is the most sensitive indicator of a patient’s current fluid status.
What are daily weights?
What is right sided HF?
This heart failure classification system uses functional ability to differentiate severity of heart failure.
What is the New York Heart Association classification?
This dietary intervention is meant to reduce fluid retention and decrease cardiac workload.
What is sodium restriction or low sodium diet?
The nurse notes crackles bilaterally on auscultation.
What is left sided HF?
This cause of heart failure could be treated with revascularization such as PCI or CABG.
What is ischemia?
When admitting a HF patient on inotropes, the nurse must notify at least these 2 people.
What is the CNS/CPL and pharmacist?
During ambulation, the nurse notes the patient is dyspneic and coughing up blood tinged sputum.
What is left sided HF?
This idea refers to the force against which the heart has to pump.
What is afterload?
This proactive nursing action helps prevent hypotension or bradycardia when giving cardiac medications without defined thresholds.
What is contacting the provider for hold parameters?
What is right sided HF?
This idea refers to the amount of blood in the ventricles at the end of diastole.
What is preload?