A nurse is caring for a patient with diabetes who requires blood glucose monitoring before meals and at bedtime. When checking the patient's blood glucose before lunch, the nurse documents the reading as 130 mg/dL. What should the nurse do next?
1. Continue to monitor.
2. Notify the patient's physician.
3. Give the patient an injection of insulin.
4. Administer a syringe of 50% dextrose.
ANS: 1
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