Mark Raddison is a nurse in a federal prison. In his practice, Mark will perform all of the following interventions except
1. Administer antipsychotic medications to a man with schizophrenia.
2. Assess a young man who has expressed suicidal thoughts.
3. Conduct a rectal examination to locate contraband on an inmate suspected of dealing drugs.
4. Draw blood to monitor the immune function of an inmate with HIV.
5. Perform first aid on an inmate who slipped and cut his head in the exercise yard.
ANS: 3
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