The nurse is admitting a 32-year-old woman to the pre-surgical unit. The nurse learns during the admission assessment that the patient takes oral contraceptives. Consequently, the nurse’s postoperative plan of care should include what intervention?

An older client receiving several antihypertensive medications to help control blood pressure. The client has had a recent fall at home. What should the nurse include in this client’s plan of care?  

A nurse is providing education to a patient newly diagnosed with hypertension. Which condition indicates target organ damage from untreated/undertreated hypertension?

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?