A nurse is caring for a client who is 2 hours post-op, receiving a clear liquid diet. Which of the following food choices by the nurse is appropriate?

A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client about risk factors for heart disease.

Which of the following risk factors is modifiable?

The nurse is taking care of a patient who is newly diagnosed with heart disease. The patient is asking questions about ejection fraction of the heart. The nurse responds.

The nurse understands that the volume of blood ejected from the ventricles during each beat is called.

During a follow-up visit with a patient recently started on Coumadin, the home health nurse is concerned after seeing an herbal remedy that enhances the effect of anticoagulants by the patient's bedside.

What is this herbal remedy?

A nurse is caring for a client who is 2 hours post-op, receiving a clear liquid diet. Which of the following food choices by the nurse is appropriate?

The nurse reminds the male patient with lactose intolerance that he can avoid the unpleasant symptoms of nausea, bloating, flatulence, and diarrhea if he will avoid certain foods. What product should the patient be instructed to avoid?

A nurse is caring for a client who reports chronic pain. Which of the following actions by the nurse uses holistic nursing?

A patient with heart disease is complaining of shortness of breath. The nurse knows that shortness of breath can be a sign and symptom of heart disease. Another name for shortness of breath is:

A patient has a new diagnosis of congestive heart failure. What type of education would be appropriate to give the patient regarding signs and symptoms to report to the provider?

The nurse is providing information about high cholesterol levels.

What is the rationale for avoiding saturated fats?

A nurse is assessing a patient with congestive heart failure that has shortness of breath.

Patients with heart disease can have fluid accumulate in the lungs.

This is called.