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NCLEX-PN® evaluation Made quite effortless! 3rd version is an easy-to-read, outline-format NCLEX® training booklet with on-line questions and solutions. The ebook makes use of the well known light-hearted really effortless! method of make NCLEX® evaluate extra attention-grabbing, relaxing, and concise and to inspire wisdom retention through lowering learn anxiousness. The e-book covers each zone of nursing and each try out, sickness, and approach that LPNs/LVNs want to know for the NCLEX®, together with grownup care, psychiatric care, maternal-neonatal care, care of the kid, coordinating care, drug management, sufferer positioning, and care and tracking of nasogastric, chest, and different physique tubes. serious pondering questions accompany every one bankruptcy. This variation has been up-to-date to mirror the most recent NCLEX-PN® try out plan, together with new alternate-format forms of questions, and comprises up to date nursing diagnoses that replicate the most recent NANDA taxonomy. The better half web site deals greater than 1,000 extra NCLEX®-style perform questions, together with trade layout questions, with rationales for proper and wrong solutions. different on-line assets contain a examine tip sheet; an instructional on NCLEX® query varieties and test-taking; and printable cheat sheets.
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Monitor vital signs, pulse rate, urine output, and pain. • Check respiratory function. Carefully observe and record the type and amount of chest tube drainage, and frequently assess heart and breath sounds. V. therapy to prevent fluid excess, which may occur with rapid fluid replacement. • Give medications as appropriate. THROMBOPHLEBITIS Key signs and symptoms Deep vein thrombophlebitis • Cramping calves • Edema • Tenderness to touch Superficial vein thrombophlebitis • Redness along vein • Warmth and tenderness along vein Key test results • Photoplethysmography shows venous-filling defects.
Qxd 28 8/7/08 3:51 PM Page 28 Cardiovascular system Cardiovascular refresher (continued) PERICARDITIS (continued) • Provide analgesics and oxygen, and reassure the patient with acute pericarditis that his condition is temporary and treatable. PULMONARY EDEMA Key signs and symptoms • Dyspnea, orthopnea, tachypnea Key test results • Chest X-ray shows pulmonary congestion. Key treatments • Diuretics: furosemide (Lasix), bumetanide (Bumex), metolazone (Zaroxolyn) • Cardiac glycoside: digoxin (Lanoxin) • Inotropic agents: dobutamine (Dobutrex), inamrinone (Inocor), milrinone (Primacor), nesiritide (Natrecor) • Nitrates: isosorbide dinitrate (Isordil), nitroglycerin (Nitro-Bid) • Vasodilator: nitroprusside (Nitropress) Key interventions • Administer oxygen.
Key treatments • Bed rest • Surgery: pericardiocentesis (for cardiac tamponade), partial pericardectomy (for recurrent pericarditis), and total pericardectomy (for constrictive pericarditis) • Antibiotics according to sensitivity of causative organism Key interventions • Provide complete bed rest. • Monitor pain related to respiration and body position. • Place the patient in an upright position. qxd 28 8/7/08 3:51 PM Page 28 Cardiovascular system Cardiovascular refresher (continued) PERICARDITIS (continued) • Provide analgesics and oxygen, and reassure the patient with acute pericarditis that his condition is temporary and treatable.