Nursing 440 Exam 1 Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) A client's cardiac index is figured to be 3.2L/min/m2. How should the nurse interpret this data? - Correct Answers ✅The client's CI is within the normal range.A nurse is concerned because the client's cardiac output is low. The nurse would implement interventions affecting which parameters? - Correct Answers ✅Contractility Heart rate Preload Afterload The staff of a critical care unit would like to move to the use of a less invasive hemodynamic technology. What should the staff consider when making this move? - Correct Answers ✅Does the equipment provide continuous monitoring?Is the equipment reliable?Is the new equipment easy to use?Are the results of monitoring valid?A newly hired nurse is preparing to administer vasoactive IV medication to a client with a PA catheter. The nurse's preceptor would allow the medication administration to proceed in which situation? - Correct Answers ✅The nurse is preparing to give the medication through the proximal injectate lumen. 1 / 3
Nursing 440 Exam 1 Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Unless this port is being used for bolus CO injectate, it can be used for infusion of IV fluids.The nurse caring for a client being hemodynamically monitored sets recognition of a right ventricular waveform as a priority assessment. What is the rationale for this planning?
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is in the right ventricle.A nurse is receiving training on the use of hemodynamic monitoring. The nurse is somewhat overwhelmed by the technology. This nurse should focus on mastery of which steps? - Correct Answers ✅How to correctly analyze waveforms How to obtain accurate data How to apply the data to client assessment A PA catheter has just been inserted. What is the nurse's primary intervention? - Correct Answers ✅call for a chest x-ray The nurse is learning to interpret data from a PA catheter.Which interventions should the nurse employ? - Correct Answers ✅Recheck abnormal readings. 2 / 3
Nursing 440 Exam 1 Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) What is the primary nursing intervention indicated for a symptomatic client with a PAWP of 3 mm Hg? - Correct Answers ✅Begin volume replacement.A PAWP of 3 mm Hg reflects low left ventricular (LV) end- diastolic pressure and low preload to the left ventricle. The treatment for low preload is volume replacement.What should the nurse do in order to assess the afterload status of a client's left ventricle? - Correct Answers ✅Calculate the systemic vascular resistance.Determine the client's cardiac index.Determine the client's mean arterial pressure.pH high pCO2 low - Correct Answers ✅respiratory alkalosis pH low pCO2 high - Correct Answers ✅respiratory acidosis pH high HCO3 high - Correct Answers ✅metabolic alkalosis
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