A client is admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema. The health care provider prescribes furosemide 40 mg intravenous (IV) stat to be repeated in 1 hour. Which nursing action will best evaluate the effectiveness of the furosemide in managing the client’s condition?

B- Articulate breath sounds

Explanation:

Pulmonary oedema is a condition that is often caused by a heart condition such as been expose to certain toxins and drugs.

Therefore Articulate breath sounds can be defined as a way in which the lung sounds occur in every parts of human chest area which help to easily assess airflow through what we called trachea-bronchial tree.

It also helps to detect if their are any form of abnormality in the lungs thereby examining the circulatory system and respiratory system which is the heart sound and the breath sound.

Articulate breath sounds are often used to physically examine a patient which help to provide clinical prove concerning the condition that manifested in the patient

Therefore nursing action which will best evaluate the effectiveness of the furosemide in managing the client’s condition is to ARTICULATE THE BREATH SOUND of the patient.