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storky111

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The nurse must administer eardrops to an infant. How should she proceed?
 
  1) Pull the pinna down and back before instilling the drops.
  2) Pull the pinna upward and outward before instilling the drops.
  3) Instill the drops directly; no special positioning is necessary.
  4) Position the patient supine with the head of the bed elevated 30.

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When the nurse enters a patient's room to administer a medication, he calls out from the bathroom telling her to leave his medication on the bedside table.
 
  He reassures her that he will take the medication as soon as he is finished. How should the nurse proceed?
  1) Inform the patient that she will return when he is finished in the bathroom.
  2) Wait outside the bathroom door until the patient is ready for the dose.
  3) Withhold the dose until the next administration time later in the day.
  4) Document that the dose was omitted in the medication administration record.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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Reply #2 on: Jul 22, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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Reply #3 on: Jul 22, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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