What action must the nurse be prepared to take for a diabetic patient who is prescribed niacin (Niacor)?
a. Give insulin only in the presence of food.
b. Check the blood glucose level more often.
c. Decrease the morning insulin dosage.
d. Encourage increased caloric intake.
B
Niacin may increase blood glucose levels. The nurse would check the patient's blood glucose level more often. Doses of drugs used to control blood glucose may need to be increased.
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1. "Are you thinking about killing yourself right now?" 2. "Why would you think that killing yourself is the answer?" 3. "Are you thinking that killing yourself would solve your problems?" 4. "Why would you think your family wouldn't care if you killed yourself?"
A client who asked for and was refused a pass to leave the unit left the nurse's station and went to
his room, where he slammed his closet door several times while looking for a sweater. A nurse came into the room and remarked "You seem pretty angry.". The client replied that he was not the least bit angry. In this instance the client is probably demonstrating a. reaction formation. b. rationalization. c. compensation. d. denial.
Your patient's baby was stillborn. You enter the patient's room and she asks you, "Why did God let this happen?" You recognize that your client is most likely in which stage of Kubler Ross's stage of grieving?
a. Denial c. Bargaining b. Anger d. Acceptance
The pediatric nurse planning nursing care for patients across care settings knows that __________ requires complex multidisciplinary management and is used as a treatment for severe, life-threatening cardiac conditions
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