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NCLEX Cardiac

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where is the aortic valve landmark on the chest?






2. What is the maintenance for venous access port that isn't being regularly used?






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






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






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






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






7. What is an air embolism?






8. In what locations should you not place electrodes?






9. What is Raynauds disease? Tx?






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






11. What are the two common complications of pericarditis?






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






13. If a victim is choking but can cough - speak - or breath what should you do?

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






15. If 2 liters of fluid is left in the pericardial sac (cardiac tamponade) and goes untreated what could it cause?






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






17. What does a swan ganz measure?






18. What is intermittent claudication?






19. What type of EKG change indicates MI?






20. How should you palpate the apical pulse?






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






22. What is cardiac tamponade? Common causes?






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






24. How does the blood flow through the heart? (valves?)






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






26. What usually triggers angina pain?






27. What causes essential/primary hypertension?






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






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






30. What does plan of care include?






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






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






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






34. What causes secondary hypertension?






35. Who would most likely have peripheral venous disease?






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






37. What is the treatment for someone in ventricular fibrillation?






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

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39. Test ending in Gram=?






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






41. What are the four types of pulmonary emboli?






42. What is the treatment for myocardial infarction?






43. How is angina treated?

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






45. What is the most common cause of arterial insufficiency?






46. What is an acute peripheral arterial occlusion?






47. What is characteristic of complete heart block?






48. What is CVP? Normal?






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






50. What factors place you at risk for HTN?







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