T or F According to the Basis for Final Grade, “Exams” account for 45% of the final grade. (The answer to this question can be found under the “Basis for Final Grade” section in the syllabus.)  

An 81-year-old female with a history of HFrEF is admitted to the CCU for hemodynamic monitoring with a swan-ganz catheter. She is on a dobutamine infusion at 5 mcg/kg/min but continues to have poor cardiac output. In order to know if she would benefit from afterload reduction the SVR needs to be calculated. Calculation of the systemic vascular resistance (SVR) requires all of the following except?

A patient presents with acute on chronic HFrEF. The most likely signs and symptoms are:

A patient presents with radiating leg pain due to a lumbar disc herniation. Which of the following is a potential benefit of spinal traction in this case?

The AG-ACNP is caring for a 58-year-old male patient who was recently diagnosed with CAD after having an ST-segment myocardial infarction. Based on the 2018 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol, which option for statin therapy would be most appropriate for this client when planning for hospital discharge?

Which of the following is a primary goal of cognitive-behavioral therapy, CBT?

A nurse admitting a 76-year-old patient to the unit carefully documents the appearance of a Stage III pressure ulcer and informs the charge nurse because:

An NP is called to assess a 76-year-old female patient who has a known history of systolic heart failure. The patient is being admitted to the hospital with complaints of couch orthopnea and declining activity tolerance. Oxygen saturations are lower than her usual baseline and a chest x-ray demonstrates pulmonary venous hypertension.  Which is the initial intervention in the treatment of this patient?

A 65-year-old female is scheduled for spinal surgery. She has a past medical history of CAD and HTN, atrial fibrillation. Her pre-op CXR is shown below. CXR4.jpg Which of the following is most helpful in predicting her risk of postoperative of respiratory failure?

Which of the following is true regarding symptomatic bradycardia?