A group of nurses is reviewing several electrocardiograms (ECGs). The students demonstrate an understanding of the waveforms when they identify which component as indicating ventricular repolarization (relaxation).

A positive Murphy's sign is indicative of?

While auscultating heart sounds, asking the client to turn onto a left lying position would help the nurse assess the presence of which of the following?

A nurse provides prevention strategies to a group of clients who are identified as at risk for hypertension. Which strategies should the nurse include? Select all that apply.

During the cardiac cycle heart sounds correlate with events of the cycle. Which is being associated with systole?

A 42-year-old woman reveals an intake of medications. Which medication if reported by the client would alert the nurse to the need to assess the client for thrombophlebitis?

What is responsible to move the blood supply from the feet toward the inferior vena cava?

After teaching a group of students about blood flow through the heart, the instructor determines that the teaching was successful when the students state that after being received by the atria, the blood goes to which of the following?

The traditional areas of auscultation of heart sounds include Erb's point, which is located at?

When assessing for appendicitis, what signs might the nurse look for? (Select all that apply.)

When auscultating a client's heart sounds, the nurse hears a louder S2 when listening at the 2nd intercostal space right sternal border. The nurse determines that this finding is consistent with the closure of which heart valves?