The client is to receive Tagamet (cimetidine) 300 mg po every 6 hours. The medication is available as Tagamet (cimetidine) 300 mg/5 mL. How many teaspoons should the nurse instruct the client to take?
What will be an ideal response?
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Care for older adults cannot be effectively accomplished unless each person who has reached this stage of life is accorded due courtesy, consideration, and esteem. This is called
1. admire. 2. protect. 3. respect. 4. redirect.
The nurse is performing an admission assessment on an older patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Which assessment data is a risk factor for hypothyroidism? Select all that apply.
1. Taking oral furosemide (Lasix) for hypertension 2. Medical history of non-thyroid autoimmunity 3. Previous external radiation for neck cancer 4. Taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) routinely for arthritis pain 5. Compliance with 1800 calorie American Diabetes Association (ADA) diet
After noting meconium-stained amniotic fluid and fetal heart rate decelerations, the physician diagnoses a depressed fetus. The appropriate nursing action at this time would be to do what?
1. Increase the mother's oxygen rate. 2. Turn the mother to the left lateral position. 3. Prepare the mother for a higher-risk delivery. 4. Increase the intravenous infusion rate.
The instructions for ________ should be written "hold if the heart rate is less than 60 or greater than 100." 
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).