Exam 35: Cardiac Disorders

A 29-year-old patient is to receive cardioversion for his dysrhythmia.The nurse will instruct the patient to expect:

When the patient with angina pectoris complains of chest pain at rest that takes three nitroglycerin (NTG)pills to relieve the pain,the nurse assesses this as a major symptom of:

A 68-year-old patient is scheduled for open heart surgery in the morning and is crying.The appropriate response from the nurse would be:

The nurse performs an apical-radial pulse evaluation,with the result of 100/88.This pulse deficit assessment is:

The patient with AF is prescribed amiodarone for the dysrhythmia.The nurse should report the adverse reaction of:

The heart sound the nurse would record as normal would be:

An important teaching point for a patient with mitral stenosis is to:

The nurse should include in the patient's discharge instruction after an acute MI:

A patient with an irregular sinoatrial (SA)node conduction has a permanent pacemaker with the code AAIOO and is now going home.The patient asks,"What happens when my real SA node fires on its own?" The nurse responds that the pacemaker will:

A patient is scheduled for a heart catheterization.In preparation for this examination,the nurse would:

A patient with acute congestive heart failure has jugular vein distention,crackles bilaterally,and dyspnea.The nursing diagnosis with the highest priority would be:

The nurse records a "1" for the pulse quality of the pedal pulse.This means that the pulse is:

The nurse explains that hypertension increases the work of the heart because of increasing:

Laboratory tests are performed to identify damage to the heart muscle.The test that is elevated the earliest with heart damage is:

The nurse records the finding of a normal sinus rhythm (NSR)when the P,Q,R,S,and T are all present in the electrocardiographic complex,as well as a(n):

When a patient returns from a cardiac catheterization,the nurse would expect to:

A patient is receiving digoxin,0.25 mg daily.Before giving the medication,the nurse would:

When the patient asks what a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE)is and what it is expected to do,the nurse explains that the TEE: