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Pop Quiz Number 115. The nurse observes a cardiac rhythm for a client who's being admitted with a myocarddfarction. What should the nurse do first? One, prepare for immediate cardio version. Two, begin CPR. Three, check for a pulse. Four. Prepare for immediate defibrillation and guys. The correct answer is three. Check for a pulse. When you look at this strip? What are we looking at? We're looking at VTA right. So we're checking for a pulse because the presence or absence of a pulse is going to tell us what we're going to do next, we're go to do. Cardio version. We're going to defibrillulate. You need to see if that patient has a pulse. That's number one. Number two, remember the basics in nursing. Right, the nursing process. What is the first thing you're supposed to do? Assess? Get information. Check to see if there's a PSE.

Pop Quiz Number 115. The nurse observes a cardiac rhythm for a client who's being admitted with a myocarddfarction. What should the nurse do first? One, prepar…