What are the basic parts of a medication order?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. The basic parts of a medication order include the patient's name, date, drug name, dosage, route of administration, time and frequency, physician's signature, quantity and number of refills, and, when the prescription is for a controlled substance, the physician's DEA number.
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The nurse charts that the patient had periods of tachypnea during the night. This means that the respiration rate was:
1. below 12 breaths/minute. 2. uneven, with periods of apnea. 3. gradually deepening, then shallow, and then periods of apnea. 4. above 20 breaths/minute.
A nurse received funding to start a mobile health unit to serve the needs of the homeless population. In addition to a general nurse staffing the unit, what other type of nurse should be hired to assist?
A. Cardiac B. Surgical C. Psychiatric D. Nutrition
A nurse educator uses Madeleine Leininger's model and describes a formal area of study and practice focused on comparative human-care differences and similarities of the beliefs, values,
and patterned lifeways of cultures to provide culturally congruent, meaningful, and beneficial health care to people. This is a definition of ___________. Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Which research topics would likely be included in the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Intramural program? Select all that apply
1. Use of a specific intervention to reduce shortness of breath in patients with congestive heart failure 2. How referred pain is associated with pathology 3. What is the best way to disseminate research training 4. Use of knowledge management theory in a free-standing dialysis unit 5. Cost of an education program on prevention of sudden infant death syndrome