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Your patient is an active 80-year-old woman with heart failure and chronic atrial fibrillation. You are taking an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, a beta-blocker, a diuretic, and digoxin. During her evaluation, she tells him that she felt very dizzy this morning.
How would you approach your evaluation and why?
Identify some of the key evaluation factors.
What nursing interventions are necessary?
How would you change your evaluation and interventions if your patient also had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and kidney failure?