NURSING 3165 Final Exam

When a patient with meningitis was admitted, the nurse charted that he could not extend his legs without complaining of extreme pain. This sign of meningitis could have been charted as a positive: a. Kernig's sign b. Trousseau's sign c. Babinski's sign d. Brudzinski's sign ____ 2. The nurse is assessing a patient with left-sided heart failure. Which symptom would the nurse expect to find? a. Dependent edema b. Distended neck veins c. Dyspnea and crackles d. Nausea and vomiting ____ 3. A patient presents to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain that he has had for the past 2 hours. The patient is nauseated and diaphoretic, with dusky skin color. The electrocardiogram shows ST elevation. Which therapeutic intervention would the nurse question? a. Emergent pacemaker insertion b. Emergent percutaneous coronary intervention c. Emergent thrombolytic therapy d. Immediate coronary artery bypass graft surgery