To prevent injury to a patient when taking his or her temperature using a rectal thermometer,
a. tell the resident not to move while you are out of the room.
b. place a pillow behind the resident.
c. stay with the resident and hold the thermometer in place.
d. place the resident on his or her stomach
c
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a. notify the physician. b. reconsider the interventions on the care plan. c. reassign the client to another nurse. d. write a new nursing diagnosis.
An individual is ordered 0.125 mg of digoxin. The tablets available are 62.5 mcg in strength. How many tablets should be administered?
a. 2 b. 0.5 c. 20 d. 5
A nurse is attempting to use an external pacemaker on a patient and finds that there is failure to capture. What is the most common cause of this problem?
A) The pacemaker does not fire. B) The pacemaker fires too often. C) The current is not increased sufficiently. D) A cable may have come loose.
A nurse using a clinical information system is required to document the same data in more than one area because the data do not “flow over” to the other areas and the data fields are not universally designed. Which of the following is lacking?
A) Interoperability
B) Intangibles
C) Return on investment
D) Biometrics