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NUR 445 EXAM 2 NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+/ARIZONA COLLEGE OF
NURSING
Question: What are the side/adverse effects of antidysrhythmic
drugs like amiodarone and dronedarone?
ANSWER: - Slows heart rate - Affects thyroid and liver, and
pulmonary function
Question: What changes do you expect with ST elevation?
ANSWER: Signs of a STEMI (ST-elevation myocardial
infarction)
Question: What is isosorbide dinitrate and what does it do?
ANSWER: This is another form of nitrate that reduces preload
and afterload
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Question: What is the treatment for symptomatic bradycardia?
ANSWER: Atropine
Question: Which patients are at high risk for digitalis toxicity?
ANSWER: People with poor renal function, CKD, and the
elderly
Question: What do we look for when we give digoxin?
ANSWER: Improved contractility (ejection fraction)
Question: What are the signs and symptoms of digoxin toxicity?
ANSWER: Visual disturbances, N/V, anorexia
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Question: What does a lipid profile measure?
ANSWER: - TG - LDL - HDL - Total cholesterol
Question: What are the risks for heart disease?
ANSWER: Various factors such as... - Smoking - High blood
pressure - High cholesterol - Obesity - Diabetes - Family history (genetics)
Question: What medications are indicated for patients with
angina?
ANSWER: ONAM (Oxygen, Nitroglycerin, Aspirin, Morphine)
Question: Which medications are contraindicated in angina?
ANSWER: -fil drugs (e.g., sildenafil, vardenafil) and Viagra
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Question: What are the atypical manifestations of myocardial
infarction?ANSWER: - Women: Neck, jaw, shoulder, abdominal pain - Elderly: Confused, dyspnea, syncope, weakness - Diabetics: SOB, fatigue
Question: When should discharge medications for total
obstruction prevention be given to patients with coronary artery disease?
ANSWER: When they are admitted for coronary artery disease
Question: Describe what causes prinzmetal angina
ANSWER: Prinzmetal angina is caused by coronary artery
spasm, not plaque formation, and usually occurs at rest and in clusters and at night