PrepU Chapter 13

A client is being seen at the clinic for a routine physical when the nurse notes the client's blood pressure is 150/97. The client is considered to be a healthy, well-nourished young adult. What type of hypertension does this client have?

ESSENTIAL (primary), malignant, pathologic, secondary

A patient with long-standing hypertension is admitted to the hospital with hypertensive urgency. The physician orders a chest x-ray, which reveals an enlarged heart. What diagnostic test does the nurse anticipate preparing the patient for to determine left ventricular enlargement?

Echocardiography

A client experiences orthostatic hypotension while receiving furosemide to treat hypertension. How will the nurse intervene?

Instruct the client to sit for several minutes before standing.

What risk factors would cause the nurse to become concerned that the client may have atherosclerotic heart disease? Select all that apply.

Obesity, hypertension, family history of early cardiovascular events, diabetes

A client is taking amiloride and lisinopril for the treatment of hypertension. What laboratory studies should the nurse monitor while the client is taking these two medications together?

Potassium level

A patient comes to the walk-in clinic. While assessing the patient's vital signs, the nurse assesses the patient's blood pressure at 128/89 mm Hg. According to JNC7, how would this patient's blood pressure be classified?

Prehypertensive

When measuring the blood pressure in each arm of a healthy adult client, the nurse recognizes that which statement is true?

Pressures should not differ more than 5 mm Hg between arms.

A client is brought to the emergency department with reports of a bad headache and an increase in blood pressure. The blood pressure reading obtained by the nurse is 260/180 mm Hg. What is the therapeutic goal for reduction of the mean blood pressure?

Reduce the blood pressure by 20% to 25% within the first hour of treatment.

A nurse is providing education about hypertension to a community group. What are possible consequences of untreated hypertension? Select all that apply.

Stroke, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease

A client in a clinic setting has just been diagnosed with hypertension. When the client asks what the end goal is for treatment, what is the nurse's best response?

To prevent complications/death by achieving and maintaining a blood pressure of 140/90 or less

The nurse is completing a cardiac assessment on a client. The patient has a blood pressure (BP) reading of 126/78. What would the nurse would identify this blood pressure reading as?

elevated

Hypertension that can be attributed to an underlying cause is termed

secondary hypertension

The nurse is seeing a client for the first time and has just checked the client's blood pressure. The nurse would consider the client prehypertensive if:

systolic BP is between 120 and 139 mm Hg.