To administer medications safely, the following actions are necessary: Accurately interpret the provider's order. Accurately calculate the amount of drug to give for the prescribed dose. Develop a systematic and safe procedure, using the six rights for drug administration, including accurate identificati...
causing inflammation, pressure, orinjury, which triggers the body’s natural response to perceive it as painful. This pain can be related to the cancer itself, surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or other treatments, and can
Nursing Interventions and Actions Therapeutic interventions and nursing actions for patients in surgery may include: 1. Providing Preoperative Instructions A lack of education, difficulty in understanding complex medical information, fear and anxiety about the surgery, and language barriers are some of the...
The concern with implicit bias is that this can impact our actions and decisions with our workplace leadership, colleagues, and even our patients. While it is our universal goal to treat everyone equally, our implicit biases can influence our interactions, assessments, communication, prioritization,...
Central venous access devices Dosage calculation Expected actions and outcomes Intravenous therapy and parenteral fluids Medication administration Pharmacological agents, actions, contraindications, interactions, side effects, and adverse effects Pharmacological pain management ...
1) A postpartum nurse is preparing to care for a woman who has just delivered a healthy newborn infant. In the immediate postpartum period the nurse plans to take the woman’s vital signs: Every 30 minutes during the first hour and then every hour
39. A nurse is preparing to obtain a sputum specimen from a client. Which of the following nursing actions will facilitate obtaining the specimen? Limiting fluids Having the client take 3 deep breaths. Asking the client to spit into the collection container. Asking the client to obtain the spe...
Estrogen, when bound to estrogen receptor alpha, upregulates prostacyclin through COX-2 activation.302 The opposing actions of prostacyclin and TXA2 on platelets and the vessel wall and their concentration levels at the site of injury are considered to be critical for thrombus formation183 and in ...
corticosteroid concentrations which are initially high in the adrenal gland and adrenal venous effluent (in micrograms per milliliter) and then are secreted at about a microgram per minute per kilogram (Assenmacher, 1973) are then rapidly diluted in the circulation and distributed to the extracellular...
40) Which of the following actions is the appropriate initial response to a client coughing up pink, frothy sputum? Call for help Call the physician Start an I.V. line Suction the client 41) Which of the following terms describes the force against which the ventricle must expel blood?