The client is to receive for Vitamin B12 1000 mcg IM three times a week. What does this prescription mean?
A) Administer Vitamin B12 1000 micrograms intramuscularly three times a week.
B) Administer Vitamin B12 1000 milligrams intravenously three times a week.
C) Administer Vitamin B12 1000 milliliters intramuscularly every other day.
D) Administer Vitamin B12 1000 milliequivalents intravenously every other day.
A
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The nurse recognizes that the pediatric client is from a cultural background different from that of the hospital staff. The nurse identifies this as a potential problem, and sets a nursing goal to:
1. Overlook or minimize the cultural differences that exist. 2. Facilitate the family's ability to comply with the care needed through education. 3. Impose the nurse's cultural perspective on this family. 4. Encourage complementary beneficial cultural practices as primary therapies.
The nurse teaches a client's wife how to administer eardrops to the client. Which statement by the client's wife indicates that additional teaching is needed?
a. "I will make sure that the eardrops are at room temperature before using them." b. "I will wash my hands before and after giving my husband the eardrops." c. "After I put the drops in, I will gently tug on the outer ear to make sure that they go into the ear canal." d. "I will have my husband lay on his back with his chin up when I give him the ear-drops."
A female client is being discharged after a lengthy hospitalization. The family is from a male-dominated culture. Before discharge instructions are given, the nurse should:
A) Arrange for teaching when the spouse is available. B) Make sure instructions are understood by the client. C) Make sure that the physician gives the instructions. D) Ask the client when the best time for teaching would be.
The nurse discovers on talking with the parents of a child that the child is waking at night to drink. Once when denied water, the child drank out of the toilet and another time the child drank from a puddle
The nurse most suspects and further assesses this child for: a. type 1 diabetes mellitus c. diabetes insipidus b. type 2 diabetes mellitus d. diabetic ketoacidosis