The nurse is providing diet education to a patient with left-sided heart failure. Which meal, if ordered by the patient, indicates the teaching has been effective?
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The patient is brought to the emergency room after briefly losing consciousness. He states, “I feel like my heart has been racing for days now. I just assumed it was stress, but now it feels so much worse.” He is pale, diaphoretic, and tachypneic. His heart rate is 118 bpm and his blood pressure is 86/52 mmHg. An electrocardiogram shows an irregularly irregular RR interval without distinct P waves. The nurse prepares the patient for which intervention?
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The patient presents to the emergency department (ED) with nausea, vomiting, fever, severe knee and wrist pain, nosebleed, and lymphadenopathy. A new murmur is noted, as well. The nurse asks the patient about a recent history of which infection?
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