The nurse understands that which of the following is true about tolerance and addiction?
a) Tolerance to opioids is uncommon.
b) The nurse must be primarily concerned about development of addiction by the patient in pain.
c) Addiction to opioids commonly develops.
d) Although patients may need increasing levels of opioids, they are not addicted.
Answer: d) Although patients may need increasing levels of opioids, they are not addicted.
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1. Avoiding prescribing any newer high-cost medications 2. Starting at a low dose and increasing the dose slowly 3. Keeping the total dose at a lower therapeutic range 4. All of the above
A new nurse is caring for five patients on a busy surgical floor. While hanging blood for a patient, the nurse receives notice that another assigned patient is being taken for surgery. The nurse has not obtained informed consent from the patient
What action should the new nurse take? a. Immediately leave the room he/she is in and obtain informed consent from the pa-tient. b. Allow the patient to go to surgery without obtaining informed consent. c. Delegate obtaining informed consent to another nurse while staying with the pa-tient who is receiving blood. d. Ask the transporter to obtain informed consent from the patient.
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