Identify the safeguards critical to the safe administration of pediatric medications.
What will be an ideal response?
Check the drug.
Check the dose, remembering that some medications must be double-checked.
Correctly identify the patient by checking the identification band and obtaining essential information from the parents.
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To accurately access blood pressure on a child, the nurse would select a cuff:
1. By the cuff label—infant, child, adult. 2. That covers 2/3 of the upper arm with a bladder that wraps around at least 80% of the circumference of the arm. 3. Based on availability as the size of the cuff will not influence the blood pressure. 4. That extends up to 50 % of the upper arm and the bladder covers 1/4 of the circumference of the arm.
When using symbolic interactionism, which question should a nurse use to best gain an understanding of the experiences of the family of a patient with schizophrenia?
a. "What situations create stress in your family at this time?" b. "What are the transportation costs of traveling to and from therapy sessions?" c. "Is there always enough money to pay the family bills and pay for therapy?" d. "Have things become better at home since your family member was discharged last time?"
The nurse supervisor notices that the nurse administering medications in a long-term care facility routinely crushes enteric-coated medications so that they can be administered through feeding tubes
How should the nurse supervisor respond to this situation? 1. Tell the nurse that it is okay to crush these medications as long as they can be easily dissolved in water prior to administration. 2. Tell the nurse that enteric-coated or sustained-release medications should never be crushed or altered in any manner. 3. Tell the nurse to continue crushing enteric-coated medications so they can be administered via feeding tube. 4. Tell the nurse that there is no real reason for the enteric coating to be on many medications.
The nurse recognizes that medications can be excreted by which routes? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Standard Text: Select all that apply
1. Fecal 2. Gastric 3. Glandular 4. Pulmonary 5. Renal