Prior to providing a preschool-age child with a prescribed dose of medication, the nurse is concerned that the child is underweight. Which should the nurse do at this time?
A) Give the child the prescribed dose.
B) Give the child one half the ordered dose.
C) Call the child's physician and alert to the dosage error.
D) Measure the child's height and weight and check whether the dose is correct.
Question 2
The nurse is caring for a 5-year-old girl posttonsillectomy. The girl looks out the window and tells the nurse that it is raining and says, The sky is crying because it is sad that my throat hurts.
The nurse understands that the girl is demonstrating which mental process?
A) Magical thinking
B) Centration
C) Transduction
D) Animism
The nurse conducts the health history as the first step in the nursing assessment
A toddler's developing motor skills allow the child to exert more independence and control over
The nurse uses a noninvasive bladder ultrasound to measure the client’s bladder volume.
A child with a hearing impairment wears a hearing aid (as noted in his left ear).
NCC MERP Index for Categorizing Medication Errors