The nurse is preparing to administer an aminoglycoside antibiotic to a client admitted with a diagnosis of acute diverticulitis.
What is the priority nursing action?

A nurse gives a client 10 units of insulin lispro at 0630. When should the client have breakfast?

The physician has just informed a patient that they have breast cancer and will require a mastectomy. The nurse finds that the patient is crying.
Which response by the nurse is most appropriate?

The nurse is caring for a client who is being evaluated for possible deep vein thrombosis of the right extremity. Which laboratory result is of most concern to the nurse?

A client has been taking glipizide for 6 months and reports to the nurse that their urine has become darker since starting the medication.
What should be the nurse’s initial action?

A patient has returned to the unit following a peripheral artery angiogram with a stent insertion.
Four hours post-procedure, the nurse can no longer palpate the dorsalis pedis pulse and the foot is cold and dusky. What should be the nurse’s immediate action?

The client newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes is to be discharged in the morning and has received no instruction on diabetes.
What should be the nurse’s teaching priority?

The nurse identifies the problem of Fluid Volume Excess for a patient. Which assessment finding validates this problem?

A client with diabetes has returned from the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) after a below-the-knee amputation (BKA) of the left leg.
Which physician’s order should the nurse implement?

The nurse is aware that the diagnostic level of a fasting blood glucose for a client with diabetes is: