The nurse receives a new medication order for a patient to administer 240 mg of medication per day in equally divided doses every 6 hours. How many mg of the drug should the nurse administer for each dose?
What will be an ideal response?
60 mg
Feedback:
Because there are 24 hours in a day, giving a drug every 6 hours would mean giving the drug 4 times a day. Because the total daily dose is 240 mg, dividing that dose by 4 would mean each dose should be 60 mg.
You might also like to view...
A nurse is teaching parents about appropriate discipline for their toddler. Which information is appropriate for the nurse to include in the session? (Select all that apply.)
A. Be firm and specific but respectful. B. Deliver consequences immediately. C. Tie consequences to the action if possible. D. Time-outs are 5 minutes for each year of life. E. Try to anticipate and avoid tantrums.
Nurses routinely check the telemetry monitors while at the desk of the unit looking for abnormal arrythmias on the monitor. A nurse looks at the strip in Room 1030 and has a feeling that she should check the client
She does so, and the client is having difficulty breathing in addition to being cyanotic. What is the term that identifies the feeling that the nurse had in the above scenario or is described as "another way of knowing wherein facts or truths are known or felt directly rather than arrived at through a linear process of rational analysis"? A) Critical thinking B) Negative thinking C) Intuition D) Reflection
A nurse is counseling a female victim of sexual assault. Which of the following statements accurately describes the increased risks for this client?
A) The client is three times more likely to suffer from depression. B) The client is 10 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. C) The client is 20 times more likely to abuse alcohol and 26 times more likely to abuse drugs. D) The client is 20 times more likely to contemplate suicide.
Which of the following actions are in keeping with the principles of standard precautions?
A. Handwashing between client contacts B. Cleaning of blood spills with soap and warm water C. Discarding needles in puncture-resistant containers D. Handwashing before removal of a pair of soiled gloves E. Wearing a face shield as a part of the protective garb during a wound irrigation F. Wearing a gown and gloves when changing the linens on the bed of a client with a draining lesion of the leg