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NCLEX Cardiac

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1. What are examples of calcium channel blockers?






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






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






4. What type of EKG change indicates MI?






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






6. What should be done for someone on bleeding precautions?






7. What is the antidote for coumadin?






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. What are the steps to perform the heimlich maneuver?






15. What are the S&S of cardiac tamponade?






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






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






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






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






20. What does an Allen's test determine?






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






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






23. What are the five areas for listening to the heart?

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24. What should be immediately done for a patient experiencing digoxin toxicity?






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






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






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






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






29. What is characteristic of complete heart block?






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. What disease can cause right sided heart failure?






37. What type of surgery is done for an aortic dissection?






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






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






40. How should you palpate the apical pulse?






41. What is epistaxis?






42. What is Raynauds disease? Tx?






43. What should you do if the PTT value is 80 for someone on heparin?






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






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






46. What should you teach someone with arterial insufficiency?

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47. What is a therapeutic digoxin level?






48. What is an aortic dissection?

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49. What is Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)?






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







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