Interruption or damage to the blood supply to the heart muscle is known as a myocardial infarction or heart attack
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Under the National Prevention Strategy there are seven priority areas. Under the area of injury- and violence-free living what is one of the targeted areas?
a. mandated car seat laws c. reporting laws for abuse b. School-based physical education d. preventing drug abuse
A client is given a postoperative opioid drug for pain relief. The nurse observes that the drug has slowed the client's breathing pattern. Which of the following reasons would the nurse most likely identify as the cause of the lowered breathing pattern?
A) Anxiety B) Somnolence C) Nausea D) Anorexia
The patient is asymptomatic but is diagnosed with second-degree heart block Mobitz I. The patient is on digitalis medication at home. The nurse should expect that:
a. the patient has had an anterior wall myocardial infarction. b. the physician will order the digitalis to be continued in the hospital. c. a digitalis level would be ordered upon admission. d. the patient will require a transcutaneous pacemaker.
Which remarks by a 72-year-old patient should prompt the nurse to assess for depression? Select all that apply
a. "Lately I have had a lot of aches and pains and just haven't felt very well." b. "My appetite is better than usual, and I am sleeping about 9 hours a night." c. "People are in and out of my room all day and all night taking my things." d. "Don't ask me to eat. I can't because my stomach is upset all the time." e. "Life is more organized now that I don't live in my own home."