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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. What is important to remember when taking care of patients with compression devices?






2. Where should you place your stethescope to find the ERB's Point?






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






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






5. What are the five areas for listening to the heart?


6. What is epistaxis?






7. What activity should a patient with pericarditis - who is undergoing treatment - be allowed?






8. What factors place you at risk for HTN?






9. What is pulsus paradoxus?






10. What should you teach someone with arterial insufficiency?


11. What causes essential/primary hypertension?






12. What are the two common complications of pericarditis?






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






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






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






16. What should you teach your patient about an abdominal ultrasonography?






17. What is characteristic of atrial fibrillation?






18. How do you prepare a patient for Impedance cardiography monitoring?






19. How is angina treated?


20. What should you teach someone after they have had a pacemaker placed?


21. What is characteristic of complete heart block?






22. What is you see an NA placing cardiac monitor electrodes on a patient. She is placing (-) on the left and (+) on the right what should you do?






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






24. What is an air embolism?






25. What are the S&S associated with right sided heart failure?






26. What is INR?






27. What can result from left sided heart failure if left untreated?






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






29. What should you always assume with a patient who has a central line placed and is experiencing SOB?






30. When should a patient call their doctor after having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) placed?






31. Where do the internal jugular veins lie?






32. What should you teach your patient about MRI?






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


34. What are examples of calcium channel blockers?






35. What should you teach your patient about an exercise ECG (stress test)?






36. What is cardiac tamponade? Common causes?






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






38. What is important to remember when removing a CVC from a patient?






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






40. What are signs and symptoms of an MI?






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






42. What should be done immediately if a pulmonary embolism is suspected?






43. What should you teach someone about iodine?






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






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






46. What does the device for impedance cardiography consist of?






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






48. What is CVP? Normal?






49. What should you do if you are going to ventilate someone with an ambu bag?






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