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NCLEX Cardiac

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Should the tubing for a venous access port be included under the dressing site?


2. What are the four types of pulmonary emboli?






3. What does a swan ganz measure?






4. How is angina treated?


5. What are the nursing interventions for a patient in complete heart block?






6. Where should you place your stethescope to find the mitral (apex) valve?






7. What is the correct way to insert an oropharyngeal airway?






8. In What time period is the greatest risk of sudden death from an MI?






9. What is the treatment for someone with right sided HF? How do you know working?






10. What should you tell a patient who developed a hematoma in the hospital and is being discharged?






11. What should you do immediately for someone experiencing anticoagulant induced epistaxis?






12. Where is the apex/mitral valve landmark on the chest?






13. What is a transthoracic echocardiograph (TTE)?






14. What should you do if the PTT value is 80 for someone on heparin?






15. Where should you place your stethescope to find the pulmonic valve?






16. Where is the pulmonic valve landmark on the chest?






17. What are examples of calcium channel blockers?






18. What are the S&S of cardiac tamponade?






19. What should you teach someone with arterial insufficiency?


20. What are the nursing interventions for a patient in atrial fibrillation?






21. What should you explain to the patient about an impedance cardiography test?






22. What is impedance cardiography?






23. What are the proper steps to changing a central venous catheter dressing?






24. What disease can cause right sided heart failure?






25. What is INR?






26. What usually triggers angina pain?






27. What will the Transthoracic echocardiograph (TTE) show that will indicate cardiac tamponade?






28. What is characteristic of ventricular fibrillation?






29. During an Allen's test don't compress one artery _____ the other.






30. Which type of patient shouldn't take nitrates?






31. What is a assessment finding with DVT?


32. What is Raynauds disease? Tx?






33. What should a patient do if they feel chest pain or discomfort?






34. What is more harmful a lot of little emboli or one large emboli?






35. What will be the treatment for an acute episode of life threatening tamponade?






36. For which heart sounds should the bell be used?






37. What is characteristic of ventricular tachycardia?






38. What is Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)?






39. What is the antidote for heparin?






40. What is intermittent claudication?






41. What causes essential/primary hypertension?






42. What places someone at risk for an aortic dissection?






43. If you see a NA placing a patient with DVT in sitting position with legs dependent what should you do?






44. What is a therapeutic digoxin level?






45. Where should you place your stethescope to find the aortic valve?






46. What are the treatments/ S&S of peripheral venous disease?






47. What makes the symptoms of superior vena cava syndrome better? Worse?






48. What is a chemical stress test (persantine stress test)?






49. What body systems are affected by digoxin toxicity? S&S?






50. What should you watch for with PICC lines that have been in place for 6 months?