A patient's peripheral parenteral nutrition (PN) bag is nearly empty and a new PN bag has not arrived yet from the pharmacy. Which intervention is the priority?
a. Monitor the patient's capillary blood glucose until a new PN bag is hung.
b. Flush the peripheral line with saline and wait until the new PN bag is available.
c. Infuse 5% dextrose in water until the new PN bag is delivered from the pharmacy.
d. Decrease the rate of the current PN infusion to 10 mL/hr until the new bag arrives.
c. Infuse 5% dextrose in water until the new PN bag is delivered from the pharmacy.
To prevent hypoglycemia, the nurse should infuse a 5% dextrose solution until the next PN bag can be started.
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