The nurse is taking care of a patient who is newly diagnosed with heart disease. The patient is asking questions about how blood flows through the heart.

The nurse responds, when the left ventricle contracts, it pushes blood through a valve to the:

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?

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.

The nurse is caring for a patient recovering from a hip replacement and is providing education regarding exercises in physical therapy. What type of therapy should the nurse call these exercises?

What part of the ECG would you look for atrial depolarization?

A nurse collecting data on a client who has iron deficiency.

Which of the following findings should the nurse expect?

The nurse is educating a patient on a vegan diet.

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

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.).

The nurse is taking care of a patient who is newly diagnosed with heart disease. The patient is asking questions about how blood flows through the heart.

The nurse responds, when the left ventricle contracts, it pushes blood through a valve to the:

A nurse discovers a medication error in which the client received twice the prescribed amount of medication. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?

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: