Reference no: EM133561586
Questions
1. Identify diagnostic tests and methods of hemodynamic monitoring of the cardiovascular system and related nursing implications.
2. What are the causes and the standard for treating the following: Sinus tachycardia, atrial fib, and flutter, premature beats, VT with a pulse (stable and unstable)? Pulseless V-Tach, Asystole, PEA. Bundle branch block (BBB)
3. Recognize the cause and the potential risks of a first, second, and third-degree block (you will NOT have to differentiate by ECG strip.)
4. Reconceive the action of cardiac medications from this new understanding of conduction and mechanical response. (Calcium channel and beta-blockers, anti-arrhythmic, atropine, epinephrine, adenosine).
5. Understand how cardioversion works and when it is indicated.
6. Identify when to call a rapid response or code, and the priorities of care in a cardiac arrest. Recognizing drugs used, indications for defibrillation, new standards for CPR, and some ACLS basics.
7. What are the different presentations and the differences in treatment between UA, NSTEMI, and STEMI (including the enzymes and the ECG changes)?
8. What are the causes of chest pain and what chest pain looks like and doesn't look like?
9. What are the Risk factors for ischemic injuries and understand normal heart function?
10. Explain the safe administration of medications. (Nitroglycerin, beta-blockers, lower dosing of heparin, when to give platelet inhibitors, and why. What NOT to give when the patient is getting reperfusion therapy).
11. What are the Priority nursing concerns in the first hours of care following interventions post-MI? What are the risks?
12. What other assessments are critical in discharge planning a patient post-MI? What drugs should the patient go home on?
13. What are the classic presentation, history, and nursing concerns for patients with ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke?
14. Identify those at risk of primary and (in the immediate hours post-stroke) secondary brain injury.
15. What is the nurse's role in managing a patient's pre and post-anticoagulant therapy, angioplasty, clipping, coiling, and endarterectomy?
16. How to Manage the complications of nutrition, elimination, neglect, language, sensory and motor deficits, and coping in the sub-acute period (post-stroke).
17. How to Recognize and rescue patients from increased intracranial pressure.
18. What Effective report on subtle changes in neurologic assessment findings.