When performing an initial admission assessment on a patient with diabetes, a nurse checks the patient's blood glucose level. The nurse notes that the patient's blood glucose level is 280 mg/dL. The nurse recognizes this reading is consistent with
1. Hypoglycemia.
2. Diabetic coma.
3. Hyperglycemia.
4. A normal value.
ANS: 3
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