A client is admitted for observation due to abnormal heart sounds, pulmonary congestion, nocturnal paroxysmal dyspnea, and orthopnea. Upon auscultation a low-pitched, rumbling murmur, best heard at the apex of the heart, is also heard. Which condition does the client likely have?

A teenager is seen in the emergency room with reports of a sore throat, headache, fever, abdominal pain, and swollen glands. His mother tells the nurse that he was seen 3 weeks before in the clinic and treated with antibiotics for strep throat. He was better for a few days but now he seems to have gotten worse in the last 2 days. What should the nurse suspect is wrong with this client?

A client has just returned from his surgical procedure. During initial vital sign measurements, the nurse notes that the client’s heart rate is 111 beats/minute and the BP is 100/78 (borderline low). In this early postoperative period, the nurse should be diligently monitoring the client for the development of:

At 4 AM, the hemodynamic monitor for a critically ill client in the intensive care unit indicates that the client’s mean arterial pressure is at the low end of the normal range; at 6 AM, the client’s MAP has fallen definitively below normal. The client is at risk for:

A nurse is observing the cardiac monitor of a client that suddenly displays a regular rhythm with absent P waves and a heart rate of 200 beats/min. The nurse interprets these findings as resulting from:

Sex hormones affect bone growth by causing ossification to be faster than cartilage replacement.

There are four stages in the healing of a bone fracture. Which of the following best illustrates the sequence of these stages? 1. bony callus formation      3. fibrocartilage callus formation 2. bone remodeling              4. hematoma formation

A condition in which bone becomes riddled with holes making them brittle and compromises normal function is called osteitis.

The nurse is caring for the client with advanced arthritis and is assisting with ambulation for am care. Which of the following would need to be a priority consideration?

While reviewing the medical record of a client, the nurse notes that the client’s potassium level is 3.0. Which one of the following conditions would the nurse suspect is the cause of this result?