Blood and blood products are examples of crystalloid solutions
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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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.) 1. Directly observed therapy. 2. Give the inmate a day's worth of medication to self-administer. 3. Place the inmate who will receive medication in the hospital wing of the facility. 4. Combine or simplify medication regimens for fewer doses. 5. Partner an inmate with another inmate receiving medication to ensure monitoring and compliance of medication administration.
An acutely ill patient is in a supine position. What approach should the nurse take to assess the patient's lung fields for a patient in this position?
A) Inform the health care provider that the patient is in a supine position and anticipate an order for a portable chest X-ray. B) Turn the patient on his or her side to assess all lung fields, so that dependent areas can be assessed for breath sounds. C) Avoid turning the patient, and assess the accessible breath sounds from the anterior chest wall. D) Obtain a pulse oximetry reading and, if the reading is low, reposition the patient and auscultate breath sounds.
While teaching a preconception class, the nurse includes which of the following recommendations to decrease the risk of neural tube defects?
1. 500 mg vitamin C every day 2. 0.4 mg folate every day 3. 1500 mg calcium every day 4. 600 mg vitamin A every day
Compare acetylsalicylic acid and acetaminophen as to action and nutritional complications