Exam 38: Nursing Management: Vascular Disorders

A patient has a 5-cm thoracic aortic aneurysm that was discovered during a routine chest x-ray. When obtaining a nursing history from the patient, it will be most important to ask about

Immediately after repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, a patient has absent popliteal, posterior tibial, and dorsalis pedis pulses. The legs are cool and mottled. Which action should the nurse take first?

After teaching a patient with newly diagnosed Raynaud's phenomenon about how to manage the condition, which behavior by the patient indicates that the teaching has been effective?

When discussing risk factor modification for a 60-year-old patient who has a 4-cm abdominal aortic aneurysm, the nurse will focus patient teaching on which of these patient risk factors?

A 42-year-old service-counter worker undergoes sclerotherapy for treatment of superficial varicose veins at an outpatient center. Before discharging the patient, the nurse teaches the patient that

A patient who has had a femoral-popliteal bypass graft to the right leg is being cared for on the surgical unit. Which action by an LPN/LVN caring for the patient requires the RN to intervene?

When the nurse is caring for a patient on the first postoperative day after an abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, which assessment finding is most important to communicate to the health care provider?

While working in the outpatient clinic, the nurse notes that the medical record states that a patient has intermittent claudication. Which of these statements by the patient would be consistent with this information?

Which of these patients admitted to the emergency department should the nurse assess first?

A patient with chronic atrial fibrillation develops sudden severe pain, pulselessness, pallor, and coolness in the left leg. The nurse should notify the health care provider and

The nurse performing an assessment with a patient who has chronic peripheral artery disease ( PAD ) of the legs and an ulcer on the left great toe would expect to find