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Yоu аre the nurse wоrking in the emergency rоom, it is the beginning of your shift 0712 аnd EMS аrrives with a 63-year-old female patient with right sided arm weakness, rt facial droop and difficulty speaking. Per EMS, the patient’s husband is parking the car and will be in shortly. History and Physical The patient is a 63 year old, African-American woman with a history of Diabetes Mellitus type II, hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis. She works as an attorney in a busy office and lives at home with her husband. Due to aphasia, her husband is answering questions for her at the bedside. According to the patient’s husband, the patient has been having some increased stress recently related to work and to his knowledge she has not been monitoring her blood pressure. He is able to describe the happenings of the morning and the night prior. He states that the patient was in her usual health the night prior and went to bed around 2200. As per their routine, they woke around 0500, the patient walked her dog and came back inside. As she was walking past the coffee pot, she poured 2 cups of coffee and carried one in each hand to the table and sat with her husband to watch the 6:00 news. She was able to converse normally with her husband and he did not notice any slurred speech or facial drooping. At approximately 0630 she went to her vanity, as she normally does, to apply makeup and get ready for work when she called out to her husband. While attempting to apply makeup she noticed that she wasn’t able to hold her makeup brush with her right hand. Her husband came to her side and notice that her face was drooping. Noticing that this was a sign of stroke, her husband call 911 and she was transported to the Emergency Department. Nurses Note: 07/05/2025 0712: Patient assessed quickly at the ambulance bay doors and stroke alert initiated. Husband is at the bedside Patient is alert and oriented x 3 with slurred speech and some word finding difficulty. Patient is unable to lift or maintain gravity in right arm or right leg, she has drooping to the right side of the face and is tearful. Vitals BP 172/108 P 101 R 22 O2 sat 98 Temp 98.5. NIHSS=10 Emergency Dept provider at the patient’s bedside. According the information obtain from the husband the EMS provider which orders do you expect to be ordered stat and used for decision making regarding stroke treatment and patient safety?
Yоu аre the nurse wоrking in the emergency rоom, it is the beginning of your shift 0712 аnd EMS аrrives with a 63-year-old female patient with right sided arm weakness, rt facial droop and difficulty speaking. Per EMS, the patient’s husband is parking the car and will be in shortly. History and Physical The patient is a 63 year old, African-American woman with a history of Diabetes Mellitus type II, hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis. She works as an attorney in a busy office and lives at home with her husband. Due to aphasia, her husband is answering questions for you at the bedside. According to the patient’s husband, the patient has been having some increased stress recently related to work and to his knowledge has not been monitoring her blood pressure. He is able to describe the happenings of the morning and the night prior. He states that the patient was in her usual health the night prior and went to bed around 2200. As per their routine, they woke around 0500, the patient walked her dog and came back inside. As she was walking past the coffee pot, she poured 2 cups of coffee and carried one in each hand to the table and sat with her husband to watch the 6:00 news. She was able to converse normally with her husband and he did not notice any slurred speech or facial drooping. At approximately 0630 she went to her vanity as she normally does to apply makeup and get ready for work when she called out to her husband. While attempting to apply makeup she noticed that she wasn’t able to hold her makeup brush with her right hand. Her husband came to her side and notice that her face was drooping. Noticing that this was a sign of stroke, her husband call 911 and she was transported to the Emergency Department. Nurses Notes: 07/05/2025 0810 – Patient taken back to radiology for repeated CT without contrast to rule out hemorrhage due to reported sudden onset of headache. CT results shows no evidence of hemorrhage. Patient returns from Radiology and placed back on bedside monitoring, patient remains in Atrial fibrillation Vitals : BP 180/118 P 99 R 22 Oxygen saturation 98%. NIHSS = 10 Patient has 20 gauge IV Heplock in Left forearm and 18 gauge in left antecubital, NSS running at KVO in 18 gauge left antecubital. Emergency Physician is at the bedside and states that he would like to lower the blood pressure before administering thrombolytic to reduce the risk of hemorrhage. What medication would you expect the physician to order to lower the blood pressure?