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 educating a patient on a vegan diet.

What supplement will the nurse encourage this patient to take to avoid a deficiency?

The nurse recognizes that when a patient is unable to consume adequate nutrition by mouth, an alternative route such as a feeding ostomy may be used.

What is the proper term for feeding a patient by this method?

A nurse is completing the 8-hr l&0 record for a client who consumed 4 oz of clear soda, 1 piece of toast, 12 oz of water, 1 cup of fruit-flavored gelatin, and 1/2 cup of chicken broth.

The client also received 300 mL of 0.9% sodium chloride IV. The nurse should record how many mL of intake on the client's record? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number.)

A nurse is planning to calculate a client's cardiac output. Which of the following data should the nurse obtain to calculate the cardiac output?

An older adult patient tells the home health nurse, "My health care provider hasn't helped my arthritis at all.

I am using the chiropractor now.”. What change has the patient made?

A nurse is planning to perform an electrocardiogram (ECG) for a client who has a history of coronary heart disease.

Which of the following actions should the nurse take? (Select all that apply.).

A patient is prescribed an ace inhibitor. The nurse knows the patient understands the adverse effects when he reports the following?

A nurse is explaining different types of complementary and alternative healing modalities to a client who has chronic pain.

Which of the following healing modalities should the nurse describe as the use of needles to stimulate specific points on the body to relieve discomfort, promote health, and cure disease?

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.

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?