Sublingual administration means placing a drug under the ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
tongue
With sublingual administration, a drug is placed under the tongue.
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You are the nurse caring for an elderly patient who is Asian-American who speaks little English. How would you assess this patient's pain?
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The nurse has two newly admitted patients with dehydration. One patient is dehydrated from heat exhaustion and the other from an overdose of Lasix. The finding that will present in both patients is:
1. increased skin turgor. 2. decreased pulse and respirations. 3. copious saliva and nasal secretions. 4. increased laboratory values of hemoglobin and hematocrit.
Which laboratory data does the nurse correlate with advanced disease in a client with cirrhosis?
a. Elevated serum protein level b. Elevated serum ammonia level c. Decreased serum ammonia level d. Decreased lactate dehydrogenase level