The nurse is doing some teaching with a toddler, explaining that the child is to take medicine to help him get well and that it is taken once a day until the total amount prescribed is finished (7 days).
The mother and the nurse agree that this medicine will be given in the early morning each day. Which of the following statements by the nurse will the toddler understand best? a. Your mommy will give you the medicine between 8:00 and 9:00 AM each morning until it is gone.
b. You will be taking your medicine every morning after breakfast until it is gone.
c. For a week you will be taking your medicine in the early morning.
d. Your mommy will give you your medicine every day by 9:00 AM until it is gone.
Question 2
When the nurse learns that the assigned clients include a child with aplastic anemia, the nurse knows that this is a condition involving:
a. production of an inadequate number of erythrocytes
b. lack of, or deficiency in, factor V
c. circulation of highly moldable platelets
d. production of inadequate amounts of hemoglobin
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