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The nurse receives a serum laboratory report for six different clients admitted with diagnoses of chest pain. Click on the top 3 most concerning lab values that the nurse should address.

The nurse learns in a report that the client with a closed chest tube drainage system has had clear but slightly diminished breath sounds in the lung bases. The reporting nurse stated that there was 280 mL of tan-colored drainage in the collection chamber in the previous 8-hour shift. The nurse assesses the client at the beginning of the shift and notes clear but slightly diminished breath sounds in the bases and 300 mL of bloody drainage in the collection chamber within the last hour. Which nursing action is most appropriate?

Management goals that apply to both aortic rupture and dissection include which considerations?

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A nurse is providing discharge instruction to a client whose abdominal aortic aneurysm will be treated medically. Which topics should the nurse include in this instruction?

The client diagnosed with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is having increased difficulty breathing. The arterial blood gas indicates a partial pressure oxygen level of 54 mmHg on O2 at 10 LPM. Which intervention should the intensive care unit nurse implement first?

A client has a slow, regular pulse. On the monitor, the nurse notes regular QRS complexes with no P waves and a ventricular rate of 50 beats per minute. The nurse suspects that there is a problem at which part of the cardiac conduction system?

The experienced LPN is caring for the client who has acute substernal chest pain. Which intervention should the RN delegate to the LPN? Select all that apply

A patient comes to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath and chest pain. What should be the nurse’s first intervention based on the following ABGs?  ABG1(1).png    

The amount of heat required to change the temperature of 10 lbs of aluminum from 20 deg F to 100 deg F is approximately