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Patient has a BP of 88/55 and you are about to administer furosemide.
What is hold the medication?
You would place a patient having a thoracentesis in this position.
What is the tripod position (leaning over the bedside table)?
Manifestations of left-sided heart failure.
What are dyspnea, pink/frothy sputum?
This is the main cause of sickle cell crisis and what is a complication of a sickle cell crisis.
What are dehydration and severe pain in the joints?
Elevated ST segment.
What is a STEMI?
This is a common side effect of nitroglycerin.
What is a headache?
This is the type of room you would put a Tb positive patient in and what would they wear when they go out of their room?
What is a negative pressure room and a surgical mask?
Manifestations of right-sided heart failure.
What are enlarged liver (hepatomegaly) and edema?
What is pain management, fluids, and blood transfusion?
You would advise a patient with this disorder to stop smoking, avoid cold weather, and to warm hands with warm water.
What is Raynaud's syndrome?
This medication is contraindicated for patients who are diagnosed with heart failure.
What is propranolol?
Patient stating they have severe chest pain, they are tachycardiac, hypoxic, and have dyspnea. The nurse asks when did the pain start and how long has it been happening and they state it came on suddenly.
What is a pulmonary embolism (PE)?
You would measure this before administering digoxin.
What is apical pulse?
DO NOT administer if apical pulse is under 60.
Patient has a DVT how would you treat the DVT and you would monitor this blood level.
What is you would administer anticoagulants, elevate the effected leg, compression stockings, and warm/moist heat and monitor their platelet count?
No P wave
What is atrial fibrillation?
When a patient that is on heparin and starts warfarin you will stop the heparin when this happens.
What is when the warfarin reaches its therapeutic level?
Patient is tachycardiac, agitated, restless, skin is cool/moist, and cyanotic.
What are the manifestations of hypoxia?
Patient with pacemaker comes in with hiccups and complaining of being really tired. Vitals: BP 130/62 P: 50 Temp: 97.2
What is pacemaker malfunction?
What is hemophilia?
The QRS complex on a ECG.
What is the ventricular depolarization?
Patient is Tb positive and has started their medications. The nurse notices on their chart that they like to drink alcohol 1-2 times a week.
What is advise the patient not to drink alcohol while on their medications as they can cause liver damage?
Patient is received in PACU after a hysterectomy and they have decreased lung sounds, decreased O2 rate, anxiety, and dyspnea.
What is atelectasis?
Nurse hears a turbulent blood flow when auscultating the heart sounds.
What is a heart murmur?
Manifestations and treatment of hypovolemic shock.
What are tachycardia and low BP and treat it with IV fluids and a blood transfusion?
The ST segment shows this.
What is the early ventricular repolarization?
Manifestations of digoxin toxicity.
What are anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and blurred vision?
Patient had a thoracentesis an hour ago. The nurse would look for these signs and symptoms that would show a complication of this procedure.
What are dyspnea, tachycardia, increased respirations, tightness of chest, and coughing up blood (pink/frothy sputum)?
Client comes complaining of having listlessness, barely eating anything for about a week, decreased energy, they have a temp of 102 and their skin is pallor.
What is thalassemia?
Manifestations: listlessness, anorexia. decreased exercise, fever, pallor.
What is the P wave?