Assignment task:
For all disorders:
- Causes and risk factors
- Pathophysiology
- Diagnostic procedures
- Clinical manifestations
- Medical management
- Nursing management of and priorities of care
- Client teaching/education
Assignment Part 1:
1. Discuss normal and abnormal cardiovascular assessment findings.
2. Identify diagnostic tests of the cardiovascular system and related nursing implications.
3. Describe pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment of coronary vascular disorders.
4. Use the nursing process as a framework for care of the client with hypertension, with angina pectoris, with acute coronary syndrome, or who has undergone cardiac revascularization procedures or cardiac surgery.
Cardiovascular Conditions:
- Coronary artery disease
- Angina
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Myocardial infarction
- ECG interpretation
- Electrical conduction system of the heart
- PQRST
- Depolarization, repolarization
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Bradycardia
- Tachycardia
- Atrial fibrillation
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Synchronized cardioversion
- Defibrillation
- Pacemaker
- AICD
- Coronary revascularization procedures
- Hypertension
- Cardiac tamponade
Assignment Part 2:
1. Define the pathophysiology and etiology of cardiac valve disorders, infectious cardiac disorders, and cardiomyopathy.
2. Describe the nursing care of the adult client with a cardiac valvular disorder, with cardiomyopathy, and with an infectious cardiac disorder.
3. Use the nursing process as a framework for care of the adult client with heart failure.
Cardiovascular Conditions:
- Cellulitis
- Mitral valveprolapse
- Pulmonary HTN
- Heart failure
- Cardiomyopathy
- Myocarditis
- Pericarditis
- Endocarditis
- Peripheral vascular disorders
- Peripheral arterial disease
- Peripheralvenousdisease
- Deep veinthrombosis
- Aortic aneurysm
Dosage calculation and/or math problems will be included on each exam