The nurse is admitting a patient who has chest pain. Which assessment data suggest that the pain may be from an acute myocardial infarction?.

After reviewing a patient's history, vital signs, physical assessment, and laboratory data, which information is most important for the nurse to communicate to the health care provider?.

Which action by the nurse will determine if therapies ordered for a patient with chronic constrictive pericarditis are effective?

A nurse is caring for an adolescent following a cardiac catheterization.

Which of the following assessment findings should the nurse report to the provider? Select the 4 findings that the nurse should report to the provider.

In preparation for discharge, the nurse teaches a patient with chronic stable angina how to use the prescribed short-acting and long-acting nitrates.

Which patient statement indicates that the teaching has been effective?.

A patient who has heart failure recently started taking digoxin in addition to furosemide and captopril. Which finding by the home health nurse is a priority to communicate to the health care provider?.

A nurse on a cardiac care unit is caring for a preschooler.

Nurses' Notes.

Hospital Day 1. 1738: Received 4-year-old child with an exacerbation of heart failure.

Family reports history of congenital mitral stenosis.

Breath sounds with wheezing noted in bilateral lower lobes.

Nonproductive cough noted.

Dyspnea with respiratory rate 30/min.

Oxygen at 2 L/min applied per nasal cannula.

Telemetry applied: Sinus rhythm at rate 116/min.

Abdomen soft, nontender.

Bowel sounds positive all 4 quadrants.

Lower extremities with 2+ edema noted.

Pedal pulses palpable bilaterally.

Peripheral saline lock intact to right forearm with no signs and symptoms of infection.

Weight 20 kg (44 lb). 2015: Increase in dyspnea noted with orthopnea.

Nasal flaring with respiratory rate of 36/min.

Lung sounds with wheezing noted throughout.

Lower extremity edema 3+ to bilateral lower extremities.

Extremities cool with decreased skin pigmentation noted.

Peripheral pulses weak bilateral.

Jugular vein distention noted.

Provider notified.

Received prescription for additional dose of IV furosemide.

Medication Administration Record.

Hospital Day 1: Furosemide 40 mg IV every 6 hr. Administered at 1755.

Give digoxin 250 mcg IV now.

Administered at 1800.

Hospital Day 2: Give digoxin 125 mcg 12 hr after initial dose.

Administered at 0608.

Give digoxin 125 mcg 12 hr after second dose.

Administered at 1804.

Furosemide 10 mg IV now.

Administered at 2020.

Vital Signs.

Hospital Day 1. 1738: Temperature: 36.7°C (98.0°F). Pulse rate: 114/min.

Respiratory rate: 30/min.

Blood pressure: 92/65 mm Hg. Oxygen saturation: 90%. 2015: Temperature: 36.9°C (98.4°F). Pulse rate: 120/min.

Respiratory rate: 36/min.

Blood pressure: 86/54 mmHg.

Oxygen saturation: 86% room air.
select words from the choices below to fill in each blank in the following sentence. The client is at risk for developing Target 1? and Target 2?.

A patient with a history of hypertension arrives in the emergency department with a blood pressure (BP) reading of 213/126 mm Hg. The patient has a history of drug abuse.

Which of the following initial questions posed by the nurse is MOST appropriate?.

The nurse is assessing a patient with myocarditis before giving a scheduled dose of digoxin (Lanoxin). Which finding is most important for the nurse to communicate to the health care provider?.

After receiving a change-of-shift report about the following four patients on the cardiac care unit, which patient would the nurse assess first?.

A patient has pain due to acute pericarditis. Which action would the nurse take?.