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 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.

A nurse is conducting a nutritional education seminar.

The nurse knows the client understands the teaching when they state:

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 calls in to the emergency room and tells the nurse they are having chest pain. They are instructed to sit down and rest.

Their chest pain starts to go away with rest.

The nurse suspects which disorder?

A nurse is preparing to administer a pre-packaged oral medication to a client and complete the final medication check. At which of the following times or places should the nurse perform this final check?

The nurse is educating a patient regarding reflexology. Information includes that reflexology is a therapy based on the theory that the entire body can be reached by applying pressure to specific areas. Where is pressure mainly applied?

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 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 assisting with teaching a class about massage therapy. The nurse should include that which of the following is a possible adverse effect of massage therapy.

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?