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When the 80-year-old female patient refuses to take a medication because it burns her stomach, the medication nurse should:
 
  a. crush the pill and mix it with the dessert on her meal tray.
  b. insist that she take it for her own good.
  c. circle and initial the dose time to show nonadministration.
  d. document the reason for refusal and report the refusal to the charge nurse.

Question 2

When the medication nurse offers a pill to the older adult patient, the patient asks, What is this and what is it for? The nurse's best response would be:
 
  a. I am not at liberty to discuss your medication. You need to talk to your doctor.
  b. That is a feel good' pill that will make you feel better.
  c. It is a cephalosporin that has been ordered to treat your URI.
  d. It is an antibiotic for the infection in your urine.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: D

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D


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