The cardiac nurse is caring for a patient who has been diagnosed with heart failure. Which diagnostic test will help determine the ejection fraction??

You are conducting a home visit for a patient with chronic congestive heart failure. The patient asks what he can do to try and catch worsening CHF before a hospital stay is necessary. You explain what signs and symptoms to monitor for and instruct the patient to do what every day?

A nurse is teaching a client with heart disease and a new prescription for atenolol. Which of the following findings should the nurse include as adverse effects of this medication?

The nurse is doing a discharge teaching with a patient who has coronary artery disease. The patient asks why he has to take an aspirin every day if he doesn’t have any pain. What would be the nurse’s best response?  

A nurse places electrodes on a collapsed individual who was visiting a hospitalized family member, the monitor exhibits the tracing notes below. Which interventions would the nurse do first?

A nurse is caring for a pregnant client who is hypertensive. What additional symptom differentiates gestational hypertension from early preeclampsia?

Which order will the nurse implement first for the client who has just vomited 1200 mL of blood?

A family member of a 28-year-old patient who has suffered massive abdominal trauma in an automobile accident asks the nurse why the patient is receiving famotidine. The nurse will explain that the medication will:

Which of the following is TRUE concerning cartilage?

Describe why a sailor who has been in the water for three days after his boat sank, is said to be dehydrated?