A client comes to the emergency department with reports of three days of watery stools and emesis x 6 in the past hour. Upon assessment, the nurse notes vital signs are B/P 130/92 mmHg, heart rate 130 bpm, respiratory rate 18 bpm, and oxygen saturation of 98% in room air. The nurse puts the client on the cardiac monitor. What does the nurse anticipate will be the prescription by the medical provider?

Which action by the nurse will determine if therapies ordered for a patient with chronic constrictive pericarditis are effective?

A client on the cardiac telemetry unit goes into Ventricular fibrillation and is unresponsive. Following initiation of the emergency call system (code blue), what is the next priority for the nurse in caring for the client?

A client is experiencing atrial fibrillation for 2 weeks and did not respond to medication therapy. The client is scheduled for an elective (outpatient) cardioversion. Which other procedure or test does the nurse anticipate this client will need?

Which of the following medications does the nurse anticipate being ordered for a client admitted with the following tachycardic rhythm and complaints of palpitations and dizziness?

A nurse in an urgent care center is assessing a client who reports a sudden onset of irregular palpitations, fatigue, and dizziness. The nurse finds a rapid and irregular heart rate on the cardiac monitor. Which dysrhythmias should the nurse expect to find on the EKG?

A nurse is educating a patient with a newly placed pacemaker about a variety of complementary and alternative therapies. What type of therapy is contraindicated in patients with pacemakers?.

A client has with Angina has been ordered to take sublingual NTG tablets. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include?

Read orders by the prescriber and answer the question.

Prescriber's orders

Labs: PT, PTT, INR

Unsupervised ambulation every 1 hr

Give protamine sulfate STAT

Give Aspirin orally daily

Continue unrestricted regular diet

Give vitamin K STAT

Initiate bleeding precautions

A nurse is admitting a client who has been in Atrial Fibrillation for 24 hours.

Which of the following interventions does the nurse plan to complete?

(Select All that Apply.)

The charge nurse is making assignments for clients on a cardiac unit. Which client should the charge nurse assign to a new graduate nurse?

A nurse is caring for a client who has a serum potassium level of 5.9 mEq/L. The provider prescribes polystyrene sulfonate. If this medication is effective, the nurse should expect which of the following changes on the client's ECG?