You’re providing care to four patients.

Select all the patients who are at risk for developing sepsis:

Which patient statement would help the nurse confirm a previous diagnosis of chronic stable angina?

Which patient statement indicates that the nurse’s teaching about sublingual nitroglycerin (Nitrostat) has been effective?

A nurse is caring for a client on a cardiac monitor. The patient’s heart monitor shows a pattern of undulations of varying contours and amplitude with no measurable ECG pattern.

What is the first action the nurse should take?

A client exhibits tachycardia, severe dyspnea, diaphoresis, crackles, and profuse, frothy pink sputum. What position should the nurse place the client in?

The nurse is caring for a client with weak pedal pulses, absent hair on bilateral legs, and a full-thickness wound on the right lateral malleolus with defined margins, including a minimal amount of serous exudate.

Which of the following interventions is contraindicated?

What is included in the first-line therapeutic approach to lowering blood pressure in a patient diagnosed with essential hypertension? (Select all that apply)

A patient is being admitted to the emergency department with intermittent chest pain. They provide a list of daily medications.

Which medication from the list has the most immediate implications for the patient’s care?

A patient with dilated cardiomyopathy has recently developed atrial fibrillation that has been unresponsive to drug therapy for several days.

What topic should the nurse plan to include in patient teaching?

Coarctation of the aorta refers to the local narrowing of the aorta near which location?

A 56-year-old individual visits his primary care provider for a routine checkup.The physical examination reveals edema, an enlarged liver (hepatomegaly), and muffled heart sounds.

Which of the following findings should the nurse be most concerned about?