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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 is the tricuspid valve landmark on the chest?






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






3. What are examples of calcium channel blockers?






4. What should you teach your patient about a holter monitor?

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5. What is characteristic of ventricular tachycardia?






6. What is the treatments for hypertension?






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






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






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






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






11. What are the 2 types of pacemakers?






12. How is the arterial brachial index (ABI) calculated? Who should perform this? What is normal?






13. What is an acute peripheral arterial occlusion?






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






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






16. What is characteristic of premature ventricular contractions?






17. What is a assessment finding with DVT?

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18. What should be checked in a patient on a beta blocker?






19. What is cardiac tamponade? Common causes?






20. What is the treatment for premature ventricular contractions?






21. What causes secondary hypertension?






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






23. What is an air embolism?






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






25. What is the hallmark clinical finding associated with pericarditis?






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






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






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






29. What should you do if the patient you are applying cardiac monitor electrodes to is hairy?






30. Test ending in Gram=?






31. What is a transthoracic echocardiograph (TTE)?






32. What does a swan ganz measure?






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






34. What should you do to treat pulmonary edema?






35. What should you teach your patient about MRI?






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






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






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






39. What things should you do to assess cardiovascular status?






40. What are the two common complications of pericarditis?






41. What should be done immediately for someone with PE?






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






43. What should you not allow if a patient has a negative Allen's test?






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






45. What is an aortic dissection?

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






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






48. What are the S&S of pulmonary embolism?






49. What does plan of care include?






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