The nurse assesses that the home health patient has no signs or ...

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The nurse assesses that the home health patient has no signs or symptoms of heart failure, but does have a history of rheumatic fever and has been recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus.
 
  The nurse is aware that using the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) staging, this patient would be a:
  a.
  stage A.
  b.
  stage B.
  c.
  stage C.
  d.
  stage D.

Question 2

The nurse assessing an 11-year-old who is having an asthma attack expects to hear adventitious sounds of:
 
  a. friction rub.
  b. sibilant wheezes.
  c. crackles.
  d. sonorous wheezes.

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
The ACC/AHA staging describes stage A as a person without symptoms of heart failure, but with primary conditions associated with the development of the disease.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
The narrowed bronchioles characteristic of an asthma attack would produce sibilant wheezes, which are high-pitched whistling sounds.