The nurse is developing an educational program for older clients who are being discharged with new antihypertensive medications.
The nurse should ensure that the educational materials include which characteristics? (Select all that apply.).

A child who weighs 55 pounds receives a prescription for cefotaxime 150 mg/kg/day intravenously in divided doses every 6 hours.
How many mg should the nurse administer each day?

Which computer documentation indicates that activities to prevent postoperative venous stasis were performed correctly?

An older male client is admitted with the medical diagnosis of a possible cerebral vascular accident (CVA). He has facial paralysis and cannot move his left side.

When entering the room, the nurse finds the client's wife tearful and trying unsuccessfully to give him a drink of water.

Which action should the nurse take?

A newly hired unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) is assigned to a home healthcare team along with two experienced UAPs.

Which intervention should the home health nurse implement to ensure adequate care for all clients?

Patient Data.

What are the signs and symptoms of DKA? Select all that apply.

A client with diabetic peripheral neuropathy has been taking pregabalin for 4 days.
Which finding indicates to the nurse that the medication is effective?

An unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) reports that a client's right hand and fingers spasm when taking the blood pressure using the same arm.

After confirming the presence of the spasms, which action should the nurse take?

A nurse is caring for a client who has meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.

The provider orders penicillin G IV for this client.

Before administering the medication, which of the following actions should the nurse take?

The nurse is caring for a client who reports sudden right-sided numbness and weakness of the arm and leg.

The nurse also observes a distinct right-sided facial droop.

After reporting the findings to the healthcare provider, the nurse receives several prescriptions for the client, including a STAT Computerized tomography scan of the head.

Which action should the nurse take first?

The nurse is caring for four clients: Client A, who has emphysema and whose oxygen saturation is 94%; Client B, with a postoperative hemoglobin of 8.2 mg/dL (82 g/L); Client C, newly admitted with a potassium level of 3.8 mEq/L (3.8 mmol/L); and Client D, scheduled for an appendectomy who has a white blood cell (WBC) count of 14,000 mm (14 x 10^9/L). Which intervention should the nurse implement? Reference Range:. Hemoglobin [14 to 18 g/dL (140 to 180 g/L)]. Potassium [3.5 to 5.0 mEq/L (3.5 to 5.0 mmol/L)]. White Blood Cell [5000 to 10,000/mm² (5 to 10 x 10^9/L)].