Dosage Calculations
A physician orders 500 mg of a medication to be administered orally to a patient. The medication is available in tablets of 250 mg each. How many tablets should be given to the patient?
What is 2 tablets?
The prejudice term for an older adult.
What is agism?
Patient is receiving packed red blood cells (PRBC) and states "I don't feel right." The nurse assesses the patient and auscultates the lungs, Wheezing is noted throughout the lung fields. The nurse's first action is to....
What is stopping the blood due to transfusion reaction?
The diabetic patient is being admitted for a left great toe amputation and asks the nurse what kind surgery this is considered to be.
What is ablative surgery?
A male patient asks a nurse "How can I keep from my children having Hemophilia A?"
Who is your daughter?
A physician orders 300 mg of a medication to be given to a patient. The medication is available as an oral suspension with a concentration of 150 mg/5 mL. How many milliliters of the oral suspension should the nurse administer to the patient?
What is 10 mL of the oral suspension?
The theory of aging when the body becomes less able to tolerate "self".
What is autoimmunity theory?
The WBC is elevated with this type of pneumonia.
What is bacterial pneumonia?
The first action that the nurse will take when a patient in the PACU has a fever of 94 degrees Fahrenheit?
What is a warm blanket?
The determination test in staging metastasis in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma?
What is a positron emission tomography (PET) scan?
A physician orders 1,500 mL of Lactated Ringer's solution to be infused over 12 hours. What is the hourly infusion rate in mL/hour?
What is 125 mL per hour?
According to Piaget, this is the stage of the cognitive development level of the adolescent.
What is formal operational stage?
This acid-base imbalance is a result of continuing hyperventilation from an anxiety attack.
What is respiratory alkalosis?
The phase of when the main airway tube is removed, and the nurse is focused on the respiratory and gastrointestinal system.
What is the postoperative phase?
The older adult patient has an occult stool test that is positive. What should the nurse assess for symptoms of knowing that the patient has a history of colonic diverticula?
What is iron-deficiency anemia?
A physician orders amoxicillin to be administered at a dosage of 5 mg/kg to a child who weighs 18 kg. The medication is available in 10 mg/mL vials. How many milliliters of the medication should be administered?
What is 9 mL of amoxicillin?
According to Erickson, when an infant is abandoned by their primary caregiver, then he/she will experience which stage?
What is trust verses mistrust?
Interpret the following ABG so you can tell the physician:
pH 7.60, PaCo2 45, PaO2 91, HCO3 35
What is metabolic alkalosis?
A patient is being assessed postoperatively of a splenectomy and is very restless and fighting staff. This patient is showing signs of what post operative complication.
What is hemorrhaging?
This significant nursing practice prevents the spread of infection for a patient with agranulocytosis.
What is hand washing?
A physician orders amoxicillin for a child weighing 25 kg at a dosage of 30 mg/kg/day, to be given in two divided doses. The safe therapeutic range for amoxicillin is 20–40 mg/kg/day. Is this dosage safe based on the therapeutic range? How many milliliters of the suspension should be administered if the suspension is 250 mg/5 mL?
Since the ordered dose of 750 mg/day falls within the safe range of 500 mg/day to 1,000 mg/day, the dosage is safe.
The nurse should administer 7.5 mL of the amoxicillin suspension twice daily.
The nurse recognizes the older patient with COPD will more than likely develop this skeletal change due to the alter ability to exchange air effectively.
What is kyphosis?
A patient has severe pain from a coughing episode and becomes dyspneic. The nurse assesses the patient's lung sounds and auscultates no lung sounds on the right side.
What is a spontaneous pneumothorax?
The anesthesia medication can depress vital system function during surgery. This system usually wakes up after 6-8 hours.
What is the renal system?
The 14-year-old client comes in the emergency room with a sickle cell crisis. The primary care of focus should be.
What is pain relief measures?