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A cough elixir is to be now to a patient with COVID. What type of order is this?
What is a Stat order
First action upon realizing you gave the patient the wrong medication?
What is : Assess your patient, then call doctor
A doctored ordered a patient to have 40 mEq of Furosemide as a 1 time order. The bottle reads 45 mEq/15 mL. How much do you administer? Round to the nearest 10th.
What is 13.3mL
The first step to drawing up long and short term insulins is?
What is add air into the cloudy (long acting) first
Sub-cutaneous site of most reliable absorption?
What is the abdomen
WHen giving a subcutaneous injection, you would choose an 3 ml syringe with a ________ needle.
What is a 25g, 5/8 inch needle
Your patient just dropped their narcotic medication on the floor. What action do you take next?
What is have a second nurse cosign the narcotic inventory describing the situation to record the loss of the medication.
When giving meds through a feeding tube, the nurse knows she should dissolve each medication in at least ___ water?
What is 20-30 ml
Before administering medications to an elderly patient, the nurses first action is to? (after the med checks)
What is assess swallow reflex
When applying an eye drop, the nurse must first apply pressure/cover/block the __________ to reduce systemic absorption of the medication
What is the Lacrimal duct
A physician orders a patient to have sliding scale insulin AC and Hs. When do you administer this medication
What is before meals and at bedtime
The nurse on shift reports she has completed the narcotic count for you. Which action do you take?
What is recount the narcotics again
A nurse preparing to administer a TB skin test knows that __mL is needed for this injection?
WHat is 0/1mL
Before using a MDI with a spacer , the patient must first
What place mouth piece between the teeth and seal lips around it
To administer ear drops to an adult patient, the nurse must pull the ______up and back
What is the pinna
Medications that can be damaging/irritating to tissues should be given via the _______ method?
You report to your shift and find that the previous nurse has made a medication error, who will fill out the incident report?
Who is the nurse that found the mistake (you)
Order order Ibuprofen 5mg/kg PO Q4H
Available 100mg/10ml
Child 30 pounds
What is 68mg
You have just given an IM injection to the patient and you realize it does not have a safety cap on it, what do you do first?
What is leave the needle uncapped and place it in the sharps container
A nurse would administer a IM injection on a 4 y/o child in which location?
Where is vastus lateralis
The nurse giving blood products knows that the only tubing and iv solution compatible with blood are?
WHat is Y tubing and NS
A patient is receiving a continuous infusion of NS@ 125ml/hr. Upon assessing the patient the nurse notes crackles in the patient bilateral lung sounds. This indicates?
What is fluid overload
Give Cephalosporin 1gm PO. How much do you give?
What is nothing, this is an unclear order
WHat are the 3 checks of medication saftety?
What is 1: Check the meds against the MAR
2: When preparing the medication
3: At the bedside after you identify the pt, before you return the medication
This IM site uses the anterosuperior iliac spine as a land mark?
What is the Ventrogluteal