A nurse assesses the following electrocardiography (ECG) strip from a client's telemetry monitor. What does the nurse chart as the client's ventricular heart rate?
a. 40 beats/min
b. 80 beats/min
c. 120 beats/min
d. 160 beats/min
B
Precisely 6 seconds is represented by 150 small blocks on ECG paper. The number of R-R inter-vals, representing ventricular depolarization episodes present in 6 seconds, can be multiplied by 10 to calculate the ventricular heart rate.
You might also like to view...
Which of the following is characterized by increasing abdominal girth, decreasing fat mass in the extremities and face, the advent of a "buffalo hump," and breast enlargement?
1. Thrush 2. Lipodystrophy 3. Wasting 4. Opportunistic infection
The "therapeutic use of self" can be defined in psychiatric nursing as:
a. using your personality to effect change in a patient b. providing psychotherapy to the patient during care c. meeting with the patient when you're off-duty to listen to their problems d. accompanying the patient to counseling for moral support
The nurse is identifying the difference between primary headaches to secondary headaches. Secondary headaches can occur:
1. Because of stress. 2. In relation to low blood pressure. 3. Because of concussions. 4. Because of migraines.
The nurse is assisting the health care provider insert a chest tube into a client with a hemothorax following a motor vehicle crash. Which should the nurse don in order to assist with this procedure?
1. Sterile gown 2. Sterile gloves 3. Mask with eye shield 4. Mask 5. Clean gown