The home care nurse plans to teach a 73-year-old female client about her medication, including how to give herself injections of insulin. Knowing that there are often barriers to medication adherence for the elderly,
the nurse should plan to do which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
A) Use standardized teaching plans for insulin administration
B) Complete a mental status assessment
C) Supervise the medication regime intermittently
D) Document for communication with providers
E) Discuss whether she takes the medications as ordered
B, D, E
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1. Was exposed to someone else with a sore throat. 2. Yelled at his brother. 3. Did not eat the right foods. 4. Did not take his vitamins.
A patient, age 28, is treated at the clinic with an injection of long-acting penicillin for a streptococcal throat infection. Her history reveals that she has received penicillin before with no allergic responses
When the penicillin injection is administered, which information should be given to the patient by the nurse? a. Because she has taken penicillin before without problems, she can safely take it now. b. She must wait in the clinic area for 20 minutes before she is discharged. c. She would have immediate symptoms if she had developed an allergy to penicillin. d. She should monitor for fever and skin rash typical of serum sickness after taking penicillin.
The health care provider is starting a client with RA on chrysotherapy. The nurse will need to provide teaching concerning:
a. application of cold for its anti-inflammatory effects. b. administration of gold salts. c. use of a holistic approach to anti-inflammatory therapy. d. administration of high aspirin doses over a long period.
The historical incidence of deep vein thrombosis in medical patients at a university hospital was 2.5%. This figure dropped to 2% among an experimental group during the implementation of a new prophylaxis regimen
What is the nurse's most accurate interpretation of this finding? A) The relative risk of DVT among medical patients is 2/100. B) The regimen results in a 20% relative risk reduction. C) The absolute risk of DVT among the control group is 2.5%. D) The results of the intervention are valid and reliable.