Mealtime insulin should be administer within
A. 45 minutes of the meal.
B. 1 hour of the meal.
C. 45 minutes after the meal
D. 15 minutes of the meal
D
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1. Free foods 2. Meat 3. Milk 4. Vegetable
The nurse is caring for an elderly woman with dementia who is frightened in the hospital room. Which is the best action by the nurse to communicate empathy and compassion?
a. Use the bedside intercom to inform her that you will be entering her room. b. Use brief, light touch on the patient's arm or shoulder when greeting her. c. Shut the patient's door in the hallway if there is noise or loud talking. d. Firmly but kindly insist the patient accepts reality as you have presented it.
The parent of a 25-year-old man who has just been found to have a left frontal brain tumor says to the nurse, "At the local hospital, our doctor thought that his headaches were nothing and prescribed an analgesic. If I hadn't insisted on a CT scan, no one would have found the tumor." Which statement by the nurse would be therapeutic?
A. "What's being planned for your son now?" B. "You and your son are having a very trying time. What's happened since your son's diagnosis?" C. "These days only the squeaky wheel gets the grease in medicine. Your squeaking was excellent advocacy." D. "Sounds like you have to be your own health care provider these days — good for you! — but I'm sure your health care provider was following medical protocol."
When performing a fingerstick, the puncture should be made across the fingerprints to prevent:
a.) channeling of the blood away from the puncture site b.) tissue fluid contamination of the specimen c.) clotting of the sample during collection d.) all of the above