Prior to providing a preschool-age child with a prescribed dose of medication, the nurse is concerned that the child is underweight. Which should the nurse do at this time?
A) Give the child the prescribed dose.
B) Give the child one half the ordered dose.
C) Call the child's physician and alert to the dosage error.
D) Measure the child's height and weight and check whether the dose is correct.
Question 2
The nurse is caring for a 5-year-old girl posttonsillectomy. The girl looks out the window and tells the nurse that it is raining and says, The sky is crying because it is sad that my throat hurts.
The nurse understands that the girl is demonstrating which mental process?
A) Magical thinking
B) Centration
C) Transduction
D) Animism
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