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NCLEX Cardiac

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. If a victim is choking but can cough - speak - or breath what should you do?

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






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






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






5. What causes secondary hypertension?






6. What is Raynauds disease? Tx?






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






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






9. How is the Allen's test done?






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






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






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






13. What should you teach someone with arterial insufficiency?

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14. What is a assessment finding with DVT?

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






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






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






18. What factors place you at risk for HTN?






19. What is a nursing diagnosis for arterial occlusion? Tx






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

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






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






23. What is the normal value for arterial pulse? Pulse amplitude? Edema? Reflex?






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






25. Where is the tricuspid valve landmark on the chest?






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






27. Where should you place your stethescope to find the aortic valve?






28. What should a patient do if they feel chest pain or discomfort?






29. What are common risk factors for an MI?






30. What is impedance cardiography?






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






32. What are the four types of pulmonary emboli?






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

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34. Where is the pulmonic valve landmark on the chest?






35. What do calcium channel blockers do?






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






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






38. What should be taught upon discharge for someone going home on coumadin as a result of a PE?






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






40. What is the treatment for atrial fibrillation?






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






42. What is defibrillation?






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






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






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






46. What is an acute peripheral arterial occlusion?






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






48. What disease can cause right sided heart failure?






49. What does an Allen's test determine?






50. What should you do to treat pulmonary edema?