Author Question: When a patient is first diagnosed with a disease, education should start with which of the ... (Read 32 times)

asan beg · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

When a patient is first diagnosed with a disease, education should start with which of the following?

a. Describing what has gone wrong and what is likely to happen
b. Determining why the problem took so long to develop
c. Deciding who caused this problem
d. Discussing what the patient should have done differently

Question 2

An LVN/LPN works on a very busy 35-bed medical-surgical unit. The RN team leader gives her a syringe with pain medication in it and asks the LPN/LVN nurse to administer this medication to a patient. What should be the nurse's first action?

a. Assist the team leader by giving the medication as requested for this time only.
b. Administer the medication this time because it is an emergency.
c. Take time and prepare the medication herself and give as prescribed.
d. The LVN/LPN doesn't have to do anything; it is not her patient.

Jadwiga9 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
When a patient is first diagnosed with a problem, education must start with what has gone wrong and what is likely to happen.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
It must be stressed that the nurse never gives medication prepared by another nurse. Even when a nurse is very busy, when there is an emergency, or when the nurse is interrupted, the nurse cannot assume that all the rights are followed unless the person who prepared the medication is the one who gives the medication.