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NCLEX Cardiac

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Where should you place your stethescope to find the mitral (apex) valve?






2. What is the proper way to access and implanted venous access port (IVAP) (Mediport)?


3. What would make someone more at risk for digoxin toxicity?






4. What should you remember while taking care of someone with a peripheral arterial occlusion?






5. What are all the S&S of pericarditis?






6. What causes essential/primary hypertension?






7. What could happen without immediate intervention for a hematoma?






8. What should happen if someone converts to asystole/flatline?






9. Without prompt surgery for an aortic dissection What is someone at risk for developing?






10. What should you do prior to placing cardiac monitor electrodes on the skin (4 things)?






11. What causes secondary hypertension?






12. What condition can cause left sided heart failure?






13. What should you teach your patient about MRI?






14. What should you teach your patient about a cardiac catheterization?






15. What should be done is a patient on anticoagulants suffers from epistaxis for more than 15 mins?






16. What is a assessment finding with DVT?


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






18. What is an air embolism?






19. What signals an elevated venous pressure based on the internal jugular veins?






20. What is the nursing care associated with chemical stress tests (persantine stress test)?






21. What should you teach your patient about an electrocardiogram (ECG)?






22. Where do the internal jugular veins lie?






23. What are the signs and symptoms of left sided HF?






24. What is the purpose of compression devices?






25. What lab value is used to evaluate a patient on coumadin? What is the normal value?






26. Where is the aortic valve landmark on the chest?






27. What should you tell someone about taking nitroglycerin tablets (SE)?






28. What is characteristic of complete heart block?






29. What are the steps for adult/child 1 rescuer CPR?






30. What are the S&S of aortic dissection?






31. How should you palpate the apical pulse?






32. What disease can cause right sided heart failure?






33. When would a nurse use an external femoral artery compression device?






34. What is the antidote for coumadin?






35. A femoral artery compression device ______be assigned to an NA?






36. Which jugular veins give a more accurate estimate of the jugular vein pressure and pressure in the right atrium?






37. What is the necessary lab value to evaluate while a patient is on heparin? What is the normal value?






38. What should you do if the PT value is 45 sec?






39. What are the S&S of air embolism?






40. What are general guidelines to be followed by a patient who has an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)?






41. Who would most likely have peripheral venous disease?






42. What should you do to treat pulmonary edema?






43. What is defibrillation?






44. What should you know about your recovery period after having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)?






45. What should you suspect for someone who post cardiac cath and percutaneous coronary intervention reporting feeling a pop in her left groin followed by a saturated dressing - swelling around site - palpable 2 inch fullness - and a bruit is present?






46. What is the goal of treatment for an MI? Treatment?






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






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






49. How is angina treated?


50. For what disease should you do the Allen's test?