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Clinical Nursing Skills

Check Your Understanding Questions

Clinical Nursing SkillsCheck Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

1 .
Explain how the structures of the heart engage in blood flow through the cardiac cycle.
2 .
Describe how you will determine if a patient has either venous or arterial insufficiency.
3 .
Describe lymphedema and a risk factor associated with it.
4 .
The nurse suspects a patient experiencing symptoms of dizziness, chest pain, and shortness of breath and who reports “feeling like my heart is skipping a beat” could have a partial heart block. Explain what testing the nurse may anticipate to confirm or rule out this dysfunction?
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