Although the physician prescribes medication dosages, if you are going to measure and administer the
medication, you must
A. give the medication without questioning the order.
B. hold the medication if it is a safe dose.
C. give the medication even if it is outside the standard recommended dose.
D. check that the dose is the standard recommended dose.
D
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Following an intravenous pyelogram (IVP), the nurse encourages fluid intake, recognizing that this is necessary to prevent which renal complication?
1. Polycystic kidney disease 2. Chronic renal failure 3. Glomerulonephritis 4. Acute renal failure
Your client asks you they are going to bring their pain medications at 2 PM. When you tell them "yes," and then bring those medications at 2 PM, you are demonstrating:
1. justice. 2. nonmaleficence. 3. fidelity 4. veracity.
Prepare a 30 mg dose from a label reading 25 mg/mL
What will be an ideal response?
The nurse recognizes that a postoperative nutritional objective specifically appropriate for a client who experienced a kidney transplant is to: Select all that apply
1. Correct any preexisting deficiencies. 2. Begin the introduction of previously restricted foods. 3. Provide necessary support to promote wound healing. 4. Meet the demands of any existing hypermetabolic process. 5. Minimize the affects of postsurgical nausea and vomiting.