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NCLEX Cardiac

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






2. 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?






3. What will a leg with arterial insufficiency look like?






4. What should be done during the insertion of both a CVP catheter and a swan ganz catheter?






5. What are signs and symptoms of an MI?






6. What is characteristic of ventricular tachycardia?






7. What should the plan of care include for a diagnosis of activity intolerance r/t right sided HF?






8. What needs to be held during the placement of a femoral artery compression device?






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






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






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






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






13. For which heart sounds should the diaphragm be used?






14. What is the treatments for hypertension?






15. What is angina? Stable vs. unstable?

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






17. What SE should you look for with calcium channel blocker use?






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






19. What is superior vena cava syndrome?






20. What are coumadin and heparin used for?






21. What is epistaxis?






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






23. What does an Allen's test determine?






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






25. Where is the right ventricle landmark on the chest?






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






27. What is the treatment for myocardial infarction?






28. What is the antidote for heparin?






29. What should you teach someone with arterial insufficiency?

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






31. What are the 2 types of pacemakers?






32. How should you palpate the apical pulse?






33. What usually triggers angina pain?






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






35. What type of EKG change indicates MI?






36. What should you teach your patient about angiography (arteriography)?






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






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






39. What are examples of calcium channel blockers?






40. What should you observe for in someone on bleeding precautions?






41. What is an acute peripheral arterial occlusion?






42. How is the Allen's test done?






43. When should bleeding precautions be implemented?






44. What is the treatment for a patient in complete heart block?






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






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






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






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

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






50. What causes essential/primary hypertension?







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