The patient is prescribed potassium (K-Dur) tablets 30 mg orally each morning. You have potassium (K-Dur) in 10 mg tablets. How many tablets will you give for each dose?
What is the answer?
3
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When preparing the patient for a bone scan, the nurse should:
a. sedate the patient. b. restrict food intake. c. restrict fluid intake. d. encourage water intake.
The LPN/LVN returning to school might do all of the following to aid in the transition except:
a. assess his or her personal support system, listing each person and group and the specific types of support they are able to give. b. be clear in communicating his or her needs and try not to worry about the needs of his or her family right now. c. create a schedule so that his or her supporters can adjust their routines to accom-modate their extra responsibilities. This also helps clarify the limitations of the supporters. d. plan ahead to allow his or her supporters to plan ahead. If the nurse's schedule changes such that his or her supporters' schedules must also change, the suppor-ters should be given as much advance notice as possible.
As a nurse manager, you have hired two new staff members who have recently come to the United States from other countries. Which of the following strategies might indicate your efforts to assist these staff members with acculturation to your unit?
a. Analyze a recent situation with them in which an order with a physician was not clarified and explore their beliefs about nurse-physician relationships. b. Expect them to behave in ways that are expected of staff who have grown up and been educated in the United States. c. Stress to these new staff that your unit is a "family" and that staff members take pride in saying that they are from Unit 4. d. Recognize that culture develops over time and leave them alone to figure out differ-ences between their culture and that of the unit.
The nurse is caring for a patient under droplet precautions. What should the nurse wear when providing care to this patient?
1. head covering and gown 2. shoe covering and gown 3. gloves only 4. mask and eye protection or face shield