Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations A Quiz 3

Following a traumatic accident, a client is admitted to the emergency room with a blood pressure of 100/60 and the physician suspects of ruptured spleen. The nurse should assess the client for an early sign of decreased arterial pressure such as:

The client is receiving oxygen by nasal cannula. The nurse plans to use safety precautions in the room because oxygen:

A client is complaining of chest ache, the physician ordered electrocardiogram for the client. An early finding in the lead over an infarcted area would be:

Bed rest is advised to a post operative client who has pulmonary embolus. The client asks why all activities are restricted. The nurse’s best response is based on the principle of bed rest:

A nurse is developing a plan of care for a client who has had a cardiac catheterization, which of the following would the nurse include?

For the first several hour following a cardiac catheterization, it would be important for the nurse to:

A 58 year old housewife has a history of angina. She is scheduled for a cardiac catheterization. The catheter entry will be through the femoral area. The nurse should instruct the client that she will:

The nurse is completing an assessment to a 60 year old client with angina. The nurse understand that the most common characteristic of angina pain is that it is:

A male client who is hospitalized after a myocardial infarction asks the nurse the reason why he needs to take morphine. The appropriate response of the nurse would be that morphine:

The client had an emergency coronary artery bypass surgery. The wife of the client ask the nurse about the purpose of the dressing on the left leg of her husband, the nurse best explain to the client’s wife that: