While assessing a patient who is receiving intravenous digitalis, the nurse recognizes that the drug has a negative chronotropic effect. How would this drug effect be evident in the patient?
a. Decreased blood pressure
b. Decreased heart rate
c. Decreased conduction
d. Decreased ectopic beats
ANS: B
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a. True b. False
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