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mpobi80

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A 5-year-old child needs to receive intravenous antibiotics but the child is anxious, resistant, and wiggly.
 
  Which restraint approach should the nurse use to keep the child safe during the time the infusion is occurring?
  A) Restrain her with a mummy restraint and loosen and rewrap it every three 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 two hours
  D) Allow her caregiver to hold her during the time the IV is in place

Question 2

A 5-year-old hospitalized child is refusing to have blood drawn because the mother is not in attendance. 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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Answer to Question 1

Ans: C

Answer to Question 2

Ans: B




mpobi80

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Reply 2 on: Jun 28, 2018
Gracias!


rleezy04

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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