A nurse is educating a group of clients with heart disease. Treatment of heart disease includes lifestyle changes.

Which one of the following is NOT considered part of a healthy lifestyle?

A patient has a new diagnosis of hypertension with a new prescription for a Beta Blocker.

Which medication would you expect to be prescribed?

A provider prescribes 2 g of a medication to give to a client in eight divided doses over the next 24h.

How many mg should the nurse administer for each dose?

A nurse withdraws morphine 2 mg from a vial that contains 4 mg/mL to inject IM for a client.

Which of the following actions should the nurse take for wasting the excess medication?

A nurse is educating a group of clients with heart disease. Treatment of heart disease includes lifestyle changes.

Which one of the following is NOT considered part of a healthy lifestyle?

A nurse is caring for a client immediately following a cardiac catheterization with a femoral artery approach. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

A patient is in the ER for a suspected myocardial infarction.

The nurse sends a blood sample to the lab.

The patient asked the nurse what laboratory levels would be elevated to indicate an MI. The nurse replies:

The nurse is providing information about high cholesterol levels.

What is the rationale for avoiding saturated fats?

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.

A nurse is assisting with teaching a class about pulmonary circulation. The nurse should include that blood flow from the right ventricle leaves the heart to go to the lungs through which of the following locations?

A nurse is preparing to administer lactated Ringer's solution IV to infuse at 120 mL/hr for a client who has a respiratory disorder.

The drop factor on the manual IV tubing is 60 gtt/mL. The nurse should set the IV flow rate to deliver how many gtt/min? (Round to the nearest whole number.). PREVIOUS.

gtt/min.