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During a focused cardiac assessment the patient states he doesn’t have any cardiovascular disease nor does he have a family history, yet the nurse notices he is prescribed some antihypertensive medications. The nurse’s initial reaction to this would be:

During a convention on heart health, the nurse plans to discuss decreasing risk factors for women. All of the following content topics are appropriate for decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease except?

The nurse caring for a child with aplastic anemia is reviewing the laboratory results and notes a white blood cell count of 8000 cells/mm3, platelet count of 200,000 cells/mm3 and a red blood cell count of 2.4 m/mL. Which nursing intervention should be incorporated into the plan of care?

While receiving report, the nurse states the patient has a history of chronic anemia. Which data found during am assessment would correlate with the report given? (Select all that apply)

The home health nurse is alarmed that the hypertensive patient’s blood pressure has risen to 200/160, he does not appear to be in any discomfort but reports “just not feeling” like himself. The nurse should perform which focused assessment next?

Non-cardio selective beta-blockers may have which effect:

A patient arrives at the emergency department with reports of fatigue, dizziness, and feeling like they are going to faint. The patient takes metoprolol and carvedilol to control hypertension and heart failure. The heart rhythm in the ambulance showed the following (see figure below). Current vital signs include a blood pressure of 104/45 with a respiratory rate of 23, HR of 40 and SaO2 of 93% on RA. The patient stated he has never felt like this before. At this time the nurse suspects which of the following may be causing the patient’s symptoms?

There are several patients on a busy cardiac rehabilitation unit who need assistance. Which task would be appropriate to assign to the nursing assistant?

Worth 0.5 points Proper nutritional teaching on ways to lower cholesterol in the diet would include these: Select all that apply

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