What administration technique should you use when giving a 2-year-old child ear drops?

Prevention of conversion from prediabetes to diabetes in young children must take highest priority and should focus on:

1. Aggressive dietary manipulation to prevent obesity 2. Fostering LDL levels less than 100 mg/dl and total cholesterol less than 170 mg/dl to prevent cardiovascular disease 3. Maintaining a blood pressure that is less than 80% based on weight and height to prevent hypertension 4. All of the above

Anticoagulants are used to

1. increase the number of platelets. 2. prevent the formation of blood clots. 3. shorten the prothrombin time. 4. dissolve blood clots.

Which of the following situations is the best example of a nurse using intellectual standards as a critical thinking tool?

1. Performing a head-to-toe assessment on a new admission 2. Placing a client experiencing shortness of breath on oxygen 3. Arbitrating a complaint between roommates over the television 4. Notifying a provider of a client's allergy to an ordered medication

The nurse is caring for a patient who has just been given medication to reverse neuromuscular blocking agents. The nurse is aware that the patient is in which general anesthetic stage?

a. Induction b. Introduction c. Emergence d. Maintenance