The patient has been diagnosed with mitral valve insufficiency and left ventricular hypertrophy. What effect would the nurse expect from the left ventricular hypertrophy?
A) Improved cardiac output from increased left ventricular contractility
B) No appreciable signs or symptoms or effects until late in the disease process
C) A more obvious and easier-to-auscultate mitral valve regurgitant murmur
D) Early onset of pulmonary edema and right-sided congestive heart failure
C
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A) Hyperkalemia B) Hypercalcemia C) Hyperlipidemia D) Hyperbilirubinemia
A client has experienced a cerebrovascular accident (stroke) with residual one-sided paralysis. The client also has problems with bowel elimination and needs routine laxatives (glycerin suppositories [Colace] and milk of magnesia) in order to pass stool
Which nursing diagnosis is indicated by this care plan? 1. Colonic constipation related to the need for a suppository to induce bowel movement 2. Perceived constipation related to beliefs about normal bowel function 3. Constipation related to immobility 4. Constipation related to excessive medication use
Health care facilities are incorporating the use of electronic health records (EHRs), and nurses are responsible for entering data on their patients. Nurses understand that there are many advantages to this new form of charting
Which of these is an advantage to the nurse when using the EHR? Select all that apply. a. Not all documentation is accessible to the nurse. b. Documentation occurs at the patient's bedside. c. Corrections are easily made when errors are inadvertently made. d. Coordination of vital signs to prescribed medications is easy and quick. e. Nurses must identify the assessment parameters to be included.
A major problem when dealing with elderly cancer patients in pain is:
1. undertreatment of pain. 2. overdose. 3. that the elderly are relatively insensitive to pain. 4. that elderly patients have a higher tolerance to pain.