Exam 12: Heart and Peripheral Vascular System

How is the first heart sound (S1) created?

A patient reports that he has coronary artery disease with ventricular hypertrophy. Based on these data, what finding should the nurse expect during assessment?

While assessing edema on a male patient's lower leg, the nurse notices that there is a slight imprint of his fingers where he palpated the patient's leg. How does the nurse document this finding?

A nurse learns from a report that a patient has aortic stenosis. Where does the nurse place the stethoscope to hear this stenotic valve?

A nurse is completing a symptom analysis with a patient complaining of chest pain. When asked what makes the chest pain worse, the patient reports that coughing and sneezing increase the chest pain. Based on these data, what does the nurse suspect as the cause of this patient's chest pain?

A nurse expects which finding during a cardiovascular assessment of a healthy adult?

A patient's blood pressure using the posterior tibial pulse is 104/72 while blood pressure using the brachial pulse is 112/84. This patient's ankle-brachial index is ____.

To document the palpation of a pulse, the nurse is correct in making which notation about the rhythm?

A nurse is assessing a patient's peripheral circulation. Which finding indicates venous insufficiency of this patient's legs?

A nurse who is auscultating a patient's heart hears a harsh sound, a raspy machine-like blowing sound, after S1 and before S2. How does this nurse document this finding?

When auscultating the heart of a patient with pericarditis, the nurse expects to hear which sound?

A nurse determines that a patient's jugular venous pressure is 3.5 inches. What additional data does the nurse expect to find?

While taking a history, a nurse learns that this patient experiences shortness of breath (dyspnea). If the cause of the dyspnea is a cardiovascular problem, the nurse expects which abnormal finding on examination?

While taking a history, a nurse learns that a patient had rheumatic heart disease as a child. Based on this information, what abnormal data might this nurse expect to find during an examination?

Which valve does a nurse auscultate when the stethoscope is placed on the fourth intercostal space at the left of the sternal border?

When assessing a patient with aortic valve stenosis, the nurse should palpate for which abnormality to detect a thrill?

Where does a nurse place a stethoscope to auscultate the mitral valve area? Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct stethoscope placement.

Which patient's statement helps a nurse distinguish between chest pain originating from pericarditis rather than from angina?

A nurse is having difficulty auscultating a patient's heart sounds because the lung sounds are too loud. What does the nurse ask the patient to do to improve hearing the heart sounds?

After two separate office visits, the nurse suspects that a patient is developing Stage 1 hypertension based on which consecutive blood pressure readings?