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NURSING 3165 - Final Exam Exit

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Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. When a patient with meningitis was admitted, the nurse charted that he could not extend his leg... s without complaining of extreme pain. This sign of meningitis could have been charted as a positive: a. Kernig's sign b. Trousseau's sign c. Babinski's sign d. Brudzinski's sign ____ 2. The nurse is assessing a patient with left-sided heart failure. Which symptom would the nurse expect to find? a. Dependent edema b. Distended neck veins c. Dyspnea and crackles d. Nausea and vomiting ____ 3. A patient presents to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain that he has had for the past 2 hours. The patient is nauseated and diaphoretic, with dusky skin color. The electrocardiogram shows ST elevation. Which therapeutic intervention would the nurse question? a. Emergent pacemaker insertion b. Emergent percutaneous coronary intervention c. Emergent thrombolytic therapy d. Immediate coronary artery bypass graft surgery ____ 4. A patient is admitted with the diagnosis of unstable angina. The nurse knows that the physiological mechanism present is most likely which of the following? a. Complete occlusion of a coronary artery b. Fatty streak within the intima of a coronary artery c. Partial occlusion of a coronary artery with a thrombus d. Vasospasm of a coronary artery ____ 5. A patient is admitted with angina. The nurse anticipates which drug regimen to be initiated? a. ACE inhibitors and diuretics b. Morphine sulfate and oxygen c. Nitroglycerin, oxygen, and beta blockers d. Statins, bile acid, and nicotinic acid ____ 6. While instructing a patient on what occurs with a myocardial infa [Show More]

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