RCIS Wes Todd Practice Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
A recommended position for a patient in acute pulmonary edema
is: -
correct answer ✅Sitting up position to facilitate breathing and
decrease venous return
when charting in the medical record you should -
correct answer ✅Avoid generalizations like "appears,
inadvertently, seems to..."
Prior to any cardiac invasive procedure the ultimate responsibility
for
obtaining informed consent lies with the: -
correct answer ✅Operating cardiologist
To be legally valid, what is the LATEST that the patient should sign
the
informed consent form? -
correct answer ✅Before administration of preoperative
medications
,RCIS Wes Todd Practice Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
A patient's informed consent: -
correct answer ✅Protects the operating physician and the hospital
from claims of an unauthorized operation
You have just completed an echocardiogram. Your patient asks you
to interpret
the results of his diagnostic examination. Your response as a
healthcare professional
should be to: -
correct answer ✅Explain that the physician will interpret it and
report the results
Your patient with hypertension has been noncompliant in taking his
antihypertensive medications. He should be taught that one
relatively common
complication of uncontrolled hypertension is: -
correct answer ✅Hemorrhaging of blood vessels in the brain
Your patient is told that he has a poor prognosis, but says he
believes there is
some mistake. According to Dr. Elisabeth Kubler- Ross, this patient
is most probably
,RCIS Wes Todd Practice Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
in what grief stage? -
correct answer ✅Denial
Your patient is to receive vein stripping surgery for varicose veins.
She asks
you how her circulation will be provided in her leg after surgery
with the veins
gone? You should base your response on knowledge that: -
correct answer ✅Veins deep in the leg take over the work of the
removed veins
Which of the following is NOT a predisposing factor for acute MI? -
correct answer ✅High estrogen levels
If you suspect that your patient has an organic heart murmur, the
cause of such
a murmur would probably be a defect in the: -
correct answer ✅action of the heart valves
Your patient reports having had an illnesses which predisposed her
to having
, RCIS Wes Todd Practice Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
a heart murmur. What childhood disease was this: -
correct answer ✅rheumatic fever
Retrosternal chest pain that is associated with sweating, nausea or
vomiting,
and not relieved by rest and nitroglycerine is most likely due to: -
correct answer ✅myocardial infarction
one indicator of cariogenic shock is -
correct answer ✅decreased urine output
Amaurosis Fugax is a symptom that involves the patient's: -
correct answer ✅sight
A patient's blood pressure is 80/45 and heart rate of 56. This
pressure and HR
is: -
correct answer ✅Hypotensive, bradycardia
Which body fluid is LEAST likely to transmit HIV to a health care
worker?: -
correct answer ✅saliva
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
A recommended position for a patient in acute pulmonary edema
is: -
correct answer ✅Sitting up position to facilitate breathing and
decrease venous return
when charting in the medical record you should -
correct answer ✅Avoid generalizations like "appears,
inadvertently, seems to..."
Prior to any cardiac invasive procedure the ultimate responsibility
for
obtaining informed consent lies with the: -
correct answer ✅Operating cardiologist
To be legally valid, what is the LATEST that the patient should sign
the
informed consent form? -
correct answer ✅Before administration of preoperative
medications
,RCIS Wes Todd Practice Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
A patient's informed consent: -
correct answer ✅Protects the operating physician and the hospital
from claims of an unauthorized operation
You have just completed an echocardiogram. Your patient asks you
to interpret
the results of his diagnostic examination. Your response as a
healthcare professional
should be to: -
correct answer ✅Explain that the physician will interpret it and
report the results
Your patient with hypertension has been noncompliant in taking his
antihypertensive medications. He should be taught that one
relatively common
complication of uncontrolled hypertension is: -
correct answer ✅Hemorrhaging of blood vessels in the brain
Your patient is told that he has a poor prognosis, but says he
believes there is
some mistake. According to Dr. Elisabeth Kubler- Ross, this patient
is most probably
,RCIS Wes Todd Practice Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
in what grief stage? -
correct answer ✅Denial
Your patient is to receive vein stripping surgery for varicose veins.
She asks
you how her circulation will be provided in her leg after surgery
with the veins
gone? You should base your response on knowledge that: -
correct answer ✅Veins deep in the leg take over the work of the
removed veins
Which of the following is NOT a predisposing factor for acute MI? -
correct answer ✅High estrogen levels
If you suspect that your patient has an organic heart murmur, the
cause of such
a murmur would probably be a defect in the: -
correct answer ✅action of the heart valves
Your patient reports having had an illnesses which predisposed her
to having
, RCIS Wes Todd Practice Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
a heart murmur. What childhood disease was this: -
correct answer ✅rheumatic fever
Retrosternal chest pain that is associated with sweating, nausea or
vomiting,
and not relieved by rest and nitroglycerine is most likely due to: -
correct answer ✅myocardial infarction
one indicator of cariogenic shock is -
correct answer ✅decreased urine output
Amaurosis Fugax is a symptom that involves the patient's: -
correct answer ✅sight
A patient's blood pressure is 80/45 and heart rate of 56. This
pressure and HR
is: -
correct answer ✅Hypotensive, bradycardia
Which body fluid is LEAST likely to transmit HIV to a health care
worker?: -
correct answer ✅saliva
