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A patient assessment cardiac tamponade.
reveals distended neck
veins, pulsus paradoxus,
and decreased systolic
pressure. This assessment
is most consistent with:
The nurse is caring for a transcutaneous pacing.
patient with severe sepsis
and third-degree heart
block. The patient is
hypotensive. The
treatment for this life-
threatening rhythm
change includes:
A patient is admitted to immobilize his head.
the ICU with suspected
cervical spinal cord injury
following a motor vehicle
accident. The most
important nursing
intervention for this
patient is to:
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The nurse assesses a this is an excessive amount of drainage
patient's chest tube
drainage 2 hours
following thoracic
surgery. The total
drainage in the system is
200 mL. The nurse knows
that:
The patient being the synergy model for patient care.
admitted requires CRRT
therapy. The nurse
assigned to admit the
patient has not been
educated on this therapy.
The charge nurse adjusts
the assignment so that a
nurse with 3 years
experience in CRRT
therapy is assigned to the
patient. This type of
decision making is an
example of:
The patient diagnosed monitor electrolyte levels and signs of fluid
with acute tubular depletion.
necrosis (ATN) and
experiencing severe
dehydration, sepsis, and
pneumonia is now in the
polyureic stage of ATN.
The most important
nursing action is to:
A patient has an elevated right heart failure.
central venous pressure
(CVP) measurement. The
most likely reason is:
Diabetes insipidus is vasopressin.
usually treated with
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Which physiologic effect Vasoconstriction
is produced by alpha-1
receptors?
The patient experiencing discontinue the TPA.
an acute myocardial
infarction (AMI) arrived
on the unit an hour ago
with TPA infusing. Initially,
the patient's neurologic
exam was normal. The
nurse assesses the
patient and finds him now
disoriented. The next
nursing action should be
to:
A patient has dobutamine and nitroprusside infusions
cardiomyopathy and is
unstable. The nurse
understands that the
treatment goal is to
improve contractility,
reduce preload and
reduce afterload. The
nurse anticipates that
medication management
will include:
A continuous drip of a 60 mL/hr
medication is ordered at
a rate of 2 mg/min. The
standard mixture of this
medication to yield a final
concentration of 2
mg/mL is 1 g of the
medication in 500 mL of
IV fluid. At what rate in
milliliters per hour should
the IV pump be set?
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