Effective management of CHF has elements that are common to most programs. These do not include:
- A. Involvement of a multidisciplinary team across the health care sectors
- B. The use of evidence based management guidelines, including both pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapy
- C. Regular hospitalisation for monitoring of cardiac function and change in haemodynamic status
- D. Inclusion of patients and their family in care planning and development of individualised selfmanagement plans
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: CHF management leans on teams, guidelines, patient-family plans smart, evidence-based wins. Routine hospital stays? Nope home care's goal, not ward loops. Nurses push this, a chronic stay-out strategy.
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The glycaemic profiles of people living with diabetes is affected by the following EXCEPT:
- A. Monitoring of blood glucose
- B. Dietary intake
- C. Exercise
- D. Stress
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Diabetes' sugar swings dance to diet, exercise, stress, and meds intake, burn, cortisol, and pills all tug levels. Monitoring tracks, not tweaks, the profile; it's a mirror, not a mover. Clinicians lean on this quintet's interplay, adjusting levers, not the gauge, a chronic puzzle where tools shape, not tally, the game.
Within the theory of planned behaviour, what is the term used to indicate the idea that a particular behaviour will either succeed or not?
- A. Attitude
- B. Implementation-intention
- C. Intention
- D. Perceived behavioural control
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Planned behaviour control belief sways success odds, not liking, plans, or will. Nurses tap this, a chronic confidence key.
What is the average life expectancy in Canada?
- A. 60 years
- B. 70 years
- C. 80 years
- D. 90 years
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Canada's life clock hits 80 78.5 for men, 82.7 for women in 2010 a longevity nurses bank on for chronic care spans. Lower guesses lag history; 90's a stretch. It shapes health goals, a timeline framing illness fights.
A nurse is caring for a client who was received in the emergency department with a heart rate of 220 beats per minute. The client's cardiac monitor displays supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). Which of the following interventions should the nurse anticipate?
- A. Apply compression stockings
- B. Perform Valsalva maneuver
- C. Draw labs
- D. Check blood glucose
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: SVT's 220 bpm blitz needs breaking Valsalva maneuver, bearing down, jolts the vagus nerve, slowing rate, a first-line trick. Stockings aid veins, not rhythm. Labs or glucose inform, don't fix. Nurses anticipate this, calming tachycardia, a quick, non-invasive hit in this racing heart emergency.
How many times more likely is a patient with diabetes to die from a cardiovascular condition compared with a patient without diabetes?
- A. 2-4x
- B. 8-10x
- C. 20-25x
- D. 40-50x
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Diabetes doubles, quadruples CV death vessels rot, not wild leaps. Nurses brace for this, a chronic heart toll.