MC Diagnosis and treatment in a correctional setting can pose a challenge to the nurse because treatment considerations such as medication distribution must be balanced with the institution's security safeguards
Strategies to ensure success of medication administration include: (Select all that apply.)
A.* Combine or simplify medication regimens for fewer doses.
B. Give the inmate a day's worth of medication to self-administer.
C. Directly-observed therapy.
D. Partner an inmate with another inmate receiving medication to ensure monitoring and compliance of medication administration.
E. Place the inmate who will receive medication in the hospital wing of the facility.
C. Directly-observed therapy.
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a. Asbestos b. Formaldehyde c. Methane d. Radon
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a. problems in the order of their chronologic development. b. the patient's concern about a particular problem. c. the patient's social and economic cir-cumstances. d. the most urgent problem.
A client having flight of ideas was discussing with the nurse how a visit with the client's father had gone. Which of the following is a therapeutic technique to use with this client?
A) "You need to finish one topic before you start on another.". B) Use silence and allow the client to process thoughts the best way the client can. C) "Why do you want to change the subject?" D) "Let's continue talking about how you feel your visit with your father went.".