Diabetes
What is the pathophysiology associated with type 1 diabetes?
Inability to produce insulin
What is an important teaching for a patient on antibiotics for a UTI?
Finish the antibiotics
What disease process needs levothyroxine to help treat it?
Hypothyroidism
Explain how insulin lowers blood sugar.
It helps move glucose from your blood into the cells for energy.
What is the normal sodium level?
135-145
What assessment finding is most consistent with diabetes insipidus?
Polyuria with very dilute urine and intense thirst
A client with BPH is started on medication. What outcome indicates the therapy is effective?
Describe the action of the hypothalamus.
It produces releasing and inhibiting hormones that control the pituitary
The nurse is preparing to administer NPH and regular insulin in one syringe. What is the correct action?
Draw up regular insulin first, then NPH insulin. Clear over cloudy.
What is normal blood glucose levels?
60-100
A client asks how their sulfonylurea medication helps control blood sugar. Which response is most accurate?
"It stimulates your pancreas to release more insulin.”
A client on a thiazide diuretic reports dysuria and urinary frequency. Which is the nurse’s best action?
Assess further and notify the provider of possible UTI
A client newly started on levothyroxine asks when they will feel better. What is the correct response?
Improvement will be noticed gradually over several weeks.
A client is prescribed NPH insulin in the morning. What teaching is most important about the peak?
This insulin peaks hours after injection watch for low blood sugar around the afternoon.
What is the normal potassium levels?
3.5-5
A pregnant client is diagnosed with gestational diabetes. What treatment is most appropriate?
Insulin therapy
What is contraindicated when giving Furosemide?
Patients who have shown a hypersensitivity to sulfondamides
What is the most important teaching for a patient on levothyroxine?
Take the medication on a empty stomach at the same time each day.
A client receiving Humulin R develops signs of hypoglycemia 2 hrs after injection. Which is the nurse’s priority action?
Give a complex carbohydrate and protein snack
What is the normal calcium level?
8.5-10.5
A client with diabetes asks why the A1c test is needed if they check blood sugar daily. Which explanation is best?
“It shows your average blood sugar control over the last 2–3 months.”
When is Mannitol used?
In the early phases of acute renal failure
It blocks the synthesis of thyroid hormone.
30 minutes before meals
What is the normal A1C level and the prediabetes A1C?
below 5.7% and prediabetes is 5.7-6.4%