An HIV-positive client with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is confused and keeps removing the intravenous piggyback (IVPB) needle during the administration of his trimetho-prim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim)
Select the instructions by the charge RN to the LPN adminis-tering medications that would best rectify this situation.
a. Give the client his as-needed (PRN) seda-tive a half hour before the IVPB medica-tion.
b. Assign one of the certified nursing assis-tants (CNAs) to stay with the client during the medication administration.
c. During the 30 minutes the medication in-fuses, place the client in bilateral wrist restraints.
d. Call the physician and request the medica-tion by mouth.
B
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