Heart 1
your patient has myocarditis. what orders would you expect for this patient regarding activities? (up with walker, bed rest, ambulation, etc)
bed rest
you patient is on anticoagulants. what would you expect to happen to their bleeding time?
to increase
which has less salt? hot dog or chicken
chicken
One of the students asks what the consequences of uncorrected, left-sided heart failure would be. What would be the nursing instructor's best response?
Right Sided heart failure
A client needs additional information about her heart condition. The client states to the nurse, “What is considered the pacemaker of the heart?”
The SA node
your client has aortic stenosis. She reports dizziness and fainting (common side effects). This would put your patient at risk for?
falls!
hypertension increases your risk for what?
heart disease/stroke
The nurse is administering captopril to a client with a diagnosis of heart failure. What type of medication does the nurse inform the client is taking?
ACE inhibitor
you patient is undergoing a stress test and reports chest pain. As a nurse, what do you do?
stop the test and monitor your patient!
The nurse is caring for a client with heart failure. What procedure should the nurse prepare the client for in order to determine the ejection fraction to measure the efficiency of the heart as a pump?
echocardiogram
your shopping and see a person slumped over with no pulse. what piece of equipment might you want?
AED
pulmonary edema
your patient is having a cardiac cath. In your discharge teaching, you include symptoms the patient should report. what symptoms should your patient report?
numbness, tingling, pain, bleeding,
A young mother brings her 4-year-old in to the pediatric clinic with a mild fever and a red, spotty rash that is beginning to fade. The child's heart rate is rapid, and the rhythm is abnormal. The mother states the child has been healthy until about 3 weeks ago when the child had a sore throat. The nurse suspects rheumatic carditis. What organism causes rheumatic carditis?
Group A Strep
A client has just been diagnosed with prehypertension. What would the nurse instruct this client to do to restore his blood pressure below hypertensive levels?
low salt intake
A nurse is collecting data on a client who has infective endocarditis. The nurse should recognize which of the following findings is the priority to report to the provider?
dyspnea
After 2-hour onset of acute chest pain, the client is brought to the emergency department for evaluation. Elevation of which diagnostic findings would the nurse identify as suggestive of an acute myocardial infarction (MI) at this time?
Myoglobin (the hours is the key here)
you patient eats a high fat diet. is this a modifiable risk factor or a non modifiable risk factor?
your patient is on an alpha blocker for hypertension and reports dizziness. what is some education you could provide to assist this patient?
rise slowly
The nurse is obtaining a history from a client brought to the emergency department following a motor vehicle accident. The client states having a history of rheumatic heart disease as a child. The nurse would evaluate this patient for which long standing changes of rheumatic heart disease?
valvular changes