The physician orders oxycodone IR 10 mg oral every 4 hours as needed for pain. Oxycodone IR is available in 20-mg tablets. How many tablets would the nurse administer with each dose? ___________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
0.5 tablet
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The nurse is acting as the triage nurse in the emergency department when a 16-year-old boy is brought in by his friends. The patient is in respiratory distress, he is vomiting, and blood is noted in the vomitus
He is somnolent and his electrocardiogram shows an arrhythmia. The boy's friends tell you he was taking a "bunch of little green pills" he got from the cupboard at his grandparent's house. The nurse suspects what? A) Overdose of sleeping pills B) Poisoning C) Anaphylactic shock D) Allergic reaction to Dyazide
The nurse is preparing to document care provided to a client who received rescue breathing while being transported to radiology. Which items will the nurse include in the documentation for this client?
Select all that apply. 1. Date and time of event 2. Factors that precipitated the event 3. Length of time with no breathing 4. Response to rescue breathing 5. Tasks assigned to the unlicensed assistive personnel
A nurse is assisting in the transfer of a postoperative patient from the postanesthesia care unit to the surgical nursing unit. What action should the nurse implement to ensure the safety of the pa-tient?
a. Put the side rails up after moving the pa-tient from the stretcher to the bed. b. Ask the patient to move from the stretcher to the bed. c. Move the patient rapidly from the stretch-er to the bed. d. Uncover the patient before transferring from the stretcher to the bed.
A nurse is preparing to take a patient's blood pressure. The blood pressure cuff is 5 inches wide and the patient's upper arm circumference is 20 inches. How accurate will this patient's blood pressure be using this blood pressure cuff?
a. Accurate, the actual value b. Higher than the actual value c. Lower than the actual value d. Unable to determine accuracy with available data