Exam 20: Care of Patients With Cardiac Disorders

The nurse caring for a patient with a temporary transvenous pacemaker will include which intervention?

The independent interventions the nurse may employ when the 80-year-old patient in the long-term health care facility develops acute pulmonary edema are to: (Select all that apply.)

Of all the assessments the nurse has made on the new patient,those that may indicate heart failure are: (Select all that apply.)

The patient with atrial fibrillation asks why she needs to take warfarin.The most informative response by the nurse is that warfarin will:

The nurse evaluates the need for further instruction on reduction of caffeine when the patient who has an arrhythmia says:

The patient with tachycardia who has a heart rate of 115 complains of shortness of breath.The nurse interprets this complaint as being related to which problem?

The nurse caring for a patient with congestive heart failure (CHF)will include which intervention in the plan of care?

The nurse caring for a patient who is taking amiodarone (Cordarone)will plan to assess the vital signs carefully for which common side effect?

The nurse explains to the patient that the implanted cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)will:

The nurse points out the characteristics of normal sinus rhythm (NSR),which are: (Select all that apply.)

Which teaching point will the nurse include when providing discharge instructions to the patient with a new permanent pacemaker?

The nurse would anticipate that the patient with right-sided heart failure would exhibit:

The patient who is taking digitalis for his heart condition becomes extremely dehydrated and has scant urine output.The nurse will assess regularly for the complaint of:

The nurse is aware that some arrhythmias may be the result of: (Select all that apply.)

The nurse explains that the calcium channel blocker verapamil assists to correct an arrhythmia by:

The patient with severe congestive heart failure (CHF)does not want to take the morphine ordered,stating that he is not in pain and he is fearful of becoming addicted.The nurse can allay anxiety by explaining that the morphine:

The patient suffering from ventricular tachydysrhythmia may benefit from _________________ when medications are not effectively treating the disorder.

If there are several tiny spikes in place of P waves on the ECG,the nurse recognizes the arrhythmia as:

The nurse is caring for several patients on a cardiac care unit.The nurse is aware that the patient who is most likely to have the disorder of aortic stenosis is which patient?

The nurse reminds the 60-year-old moderately obese African American hypertensive diabetic male who smokes that he can modify his risk for heart disease by: (Select all that apply.)