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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 are common risk factors for an MI?






2. What is the necessary lab value to evaluate while a patient is on heparin? What is the normal value?






3. What is labile hypertension?






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






5. What are the two common complications of pericarditis?






6. What is the antidote for coumadin?






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






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






9. How should you palpate the apical pulse?






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






11. What are coumadin and heparin used for?






12. What is a transthoracic echocardiograph (TTE)?






13. What is characteristic of atrial fibrillation?






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






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






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






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






18. What are the S&S of superior vena cava syndrome?






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






20. What does an Allen's test determine?






21. What would make someone more at risk for digoxin toxicity?






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


23. What should you teach a patient regarding discharge after a DVT?


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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Where do the internal jugular veins lie?






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






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






33. What landmarks should you be looking for on someone's chest?






34. What are examples of calcium channel blockers?






35. What is the treatment for atrial fibrillation?






36. What will be the treatment for an acute episode of life threatening tamponade?






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






38. What is intermittent claudication?






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. What are the nursing interventions for a patient in complete heart block?






46. What is impedance cardiography?






47. What should you teach someone about iodine?






48. What is an aortic dissection?


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






50. What is characteristic of ventricular fibrillation?