Med Admin

A nurse prepares to adminsiter an injection of morphine to a client who reports pain. Prior to administering the medication the nurse assists another client onto the bedpan she asks a second nurse to administer the medication which of the following should the other nurse do?

• offer to assist the client who needs the bedpan

• adminsiter the medication

• prepare another syrine and administer the injection

• tell the client requesting the bedpan to wait a minute

A nurse is preparing to administer a client 0900 medications; which of the following are accpetable times to adminsiter the medications?

• 0905

• 0825

• 0840

• 1200

• 1230

a nurse is working with a newly licensed nurse who is administering medications to a client. which of the following actions should the nurse identify as an indication that newly hired nurse understands medication error prevention

• Taking all medicationsout of the unit dose wrappers before entering the clients room

• verifying with another professional when a single dose requires multiple tablets (More than 2)

• administering a med then looking up the usual dosage range

• asking a senior nurse to verify the order

Which of the followin statements should the nurse identify as an indication that a person understands medication therapy and the role of the RN

• I will observe for side effects

• i will monitor for therepeutic effect.

• i will change the dose if a reaction occurs

• i will refuse to give a medication if i beleive it is unsafe

• i will prescribe the right dose.

Your patient is being administered digoxin; he has refused the morning dose. He states "Get that the h*ll out of here"

• Your physician prescribed this for you so you should really take it.

• Reply "Well, lets just get this done real quick."

• Administer IV dosing while the patient is asleep

• Reply with "Tell me your concerns about this medication"

1lb equates to=_kg

Answer explanation

2.2kg

A nurse is preparing to administer 1L of fluid over 1 hour; You would set the rate at __ml/hr