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Five-year-old Tess must receive an IV infusion of antibiotics. She is anxious, resistant, and wiggly. To keep her safe during the time the IV is in place, the nurse would choose which of the following methods to restrain her?
 
  A) Restrain her with a mummy restraint, and loosen and rewrap it every 3 hours.
  B) Restrain her on a papoose board and release her as soon as the IV is in place.
  C) Use a clove-hitch restraint to keep her arm still and loosen it every 2 hours.
  D) Allow her caregiver to hold her during the time the IV is in place.

Question 2

The nurse is caring for a 5-year-old hospitalized child who needs to have blood drawn for the third time. When the lab technician arrives, the child says to the nurse, You can't take my blood, my mama isn't here.
 
   The child's caregiver is not in the hospital and is not expected to return for several hours. Of the following actions by the nurse, which action would be best for the nurse to do in this situation?
  A) Check with the floor administrator to see if the blood draw can wait until the caregiver returns.
  B) Recognize the statement is a stalling technique, reassure the child, and continue with the procedure.
  C) Tell the child that if he will let the phlebotomist take his blood without putting up a fuss he will get a lollipop.
  D) Remind him that he has said that before and that he knows that the blood must be taken.



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canderson530

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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

B




EY67

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Reply 2 on: Jun 28, 2018
Excellent


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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