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Fundementals of Cardiac Nursing Acadamy 101

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  • Your patient presents with right sided heart failure which is no a typical sign of right sided failure?
    JVD
    Rales
    Peripheral edema
    Ascites
  • What are the is not a specific component of cardiac tissue?
    Viability
    Conductivity
    Automaticity
    Contractatility
  • your patient is bradycardiac and requries atropine. What response are your evaluating for?
    Dromotrophic
    Inotrophic
    Mesotrophic
    Chronotrophic
  • What lab and frequency must be drawn when patient is recieving Heparin Therapy?
    aptt every 4 hours
    INR every 6 hours
    aptt every six hours
    INR every 4 hours
  • Who was your favorite educator so far?
    Seth
    Me
    We were all pretty amazing
    Danielle
  • Which step is not a component of EKG Interpration
    Assess Regularity
    Assess Height of P Wave Vs hight of QRS
    P Wave for every QRS
    Assess Rate
  • What percentage of cardiac output is provided by the Atrial Kick?
    20%
    15%
    25%
    10%
  • Why is diastole important when measuring cardiac health?
    It's not that important
    The coronary vessels fill on ventricular diastole
    It shows overall heart health
    What is diastole
  • What happens to the blood pressure value with an incorrectly sized cuff (too large) placed on the patient
    value will be fasely low
    how do you measure a cuff?
    value will be fasely high
    no change in value
  • Your post op. cardiac patient starts complaining of chest pain what is your first course of action
    Assess the patient
    Call Rapid Response
    Call a code
    Administer MONA (Morphine, Oxygen, Nitro, ASA
  • Whera would I find cardiac EPI and a bag valve mask in the crash cart
    Top Drawer EPI: 5th Drawer BVM
    2nd Drawer EPI: 3rd Drawer BVM
    4th Draer EPI: 4th Drawer BVM
    3rd Drawer EPI: 4th Drawer BVM
  • What does the T Wave represent on the EKG
    Ventricular Repolarization
    Junctional Repolarization
    Atrial Repolarization
    Ventricular Depolarization
  • What rhythm would you expect with an absent P wave and Narrow QRS
    Atrial Rhythm
    Ventricular Rhythm
    Junctional Rhythm
    Idoventricular Rhythm
  • Your patient is showing Peaked T Waves what condition would not cause that presentation on the monitor
    Diabetic Ketoacidosis
    Acute Myocardial Infarction
    use of meds that affect QT Interval
    Hyperkalemic
  • What is the proper electical pathway of the heart
    SA node--> AV node--> Bundle of HIS--> Purkinje fibers
    Purkinje Fibers--> Bundle of HIS--> AV node--> SA node
    AV node--> SA node--> Bundle of HIS--> Purkinje Fi
    Bundle of HIS--> Purkinje Fibers--> AV node--> SA node
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