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Labs/Procedures
Client Education/Teaching
Nursing Considerations
Cardiovascular Diseases
Miscellaneous
100
For any test that is using dye, it is important to ask the client what?
If they have allergies to shellfish or iodine?
100
When teaching about nitroglycerin, how should you tell the client that it should be stored?
What is in its original container?
100
When a client has undergone an angiocardiogram (cardiac catheterization) via the femoral site, what are some things the nurse needs to monitor?
What are vitals signs as well as peripheral pulses, color, and warmth of the extremity?
100
This substance can worsen angina and intake should be reduced or avoided.
What is nicotine?
100
A heart beat with a normal rate but less than 60 beats per minute.
What is sinus bradycardia?
200
These labs help indicate if there has been damage to the heart as a result of a myocardial infarction.
What is CK-MB, Troponin, and AST?
200
A client asks what arteriosclerosis is, how do you explain?
What is when the walls of the arteries thicken, harden, and lose elasticity?
200
A client admitted with a stroke, should be positioned in this way.
What is with the head of the bed elevated?
200
Numbness and weakness of the right arm and leg due to a CVA is known as this.
What is right-sided hemiparesis?
200
These tests help can help to diagnose cardiovascular disease.
What is a stress test, ECG/EKG, echocardiogram?
300
An ultrasound of the heart that can help determine heart chamber size as well as how well the blood is pumping with each heart beat.
What is echocardiogram?
300
When a client is taking digoxin (Lanoxin) these symptoms should be reported to the provider immediately.
What is blurry vision and yellow haloes around objects?
300
The nurse knows that an increase or decrease in potassium, sodium, and magnesium has the potential to result in these...
What are cardiac arrhythmias/dysrhytmias?
300
A client with this type of heart rhythm is a good candidate for a pacemaker.
What is heart block?
300
During this stage following a CVA, the affected side exhibits numbness or weakness.
What is the flaccid stage of hemiplegia?
400
It takes 3-4 hours for this lab to increase following the onset of chest pain.
What is the troponin?
400
True or false: A client with a permanent pacemaker should be educated to avoid electrical interference?
What is True?
400
The nurse should know that a client is a good candidate for thrombolytic therapy if....
They continue to have ischemia even after administration of nitroglycerin?
400
This disease interferes with the hearts ability to pump adequately; three types: dilated, hypertropic, and restrictive.
What is cardiomyopathy?
400
Describe percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
What is where a balloon-tipped catheter is inserted into a narrowed artery to help widen it, thereby restoring blood flow?
500
Following a angiocardiogram, the client must avoid doing this for up to 8 hours.
What is bending or flexing the hip?
500
GI symptoms, headache, and blurred vision are all side effects that should be monitored for when a patient is taking this medication.
What is digoxin?
500
These types of foods should be avoided to help prevent coronary artery disease.
What are sugary foods?
500
A disease that can be found in smokers; characterized by hardened, painful areas along the course of blood vessels.
What is Buerger disease?
500
This lifestyle modification has the potential to help prevent cardiovascular disease.
What is stopping smoking?