The nurse instructor is teaching a group of nursing students about adventitious heart sounds. The instructor explains that auscultation of the heart requires familiarization with normal and abnormal heart sounds. What would the instructor tell these students a ventricular gallop indicates in an adult?
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The nurse is caring for a client with a damaged tricuspid valve. The nurse knows that the tricuspid valve is held in place by which of the following?
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The nurse is discharging a client after a cardiac catheterization. What would the nurse include in the discharge teaching?
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The nurse is caring for a client with right-sided heart failure. When assessing the respiratory rate of this client, what is an indication that the client is having difficulty breathing?
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One of the students asks what the consequences of uncorrected, left-sided heart failure would be. What would be the nursing instructor's best response?
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