Answer the following questions
1. What nursing interventions would the RN be responsible for after a patient has had a left heart catheterization, using the right groin?
2. When a 12-lead EKG shows ST elevation, what are the priority interventions by the nurse?
3. What are contraindications to a nitroglycerin drip?
4. A client has decreased cardiac output. What are the likely symptoms? What would be priority assessments that the nurse would be watching for?
5. What pain medication is typically given when someone has an MI? Why? would that intervention change if someone had a substance use disorder for opioids?
6. What is a patient at risk for when administering t-PA?
7. What anticoagulants would be administered to a pregnant patient with class II cardiac disease? Why?
8. What symptoms would need to reported immediately to a health care provider with a pregnant patient who has class II cardiac disease?
9. If you have a patient has just undergone a fem-pop, what are your priority assessments? What if underneath the client is saturated with blood, what is your priority action?
10. What is the preferred position for a child having a Tet spell?
