While helping a student nurse apply a nitroglycerine patch to the patient's skin, the nursing instructor would appropriately intervene if
1. The student nurse removed a patch that was applied yesterday before applying the new patch.
2. The student nurse removed her gloves before placing the patch.
3. The student nurse wrote the date, time, and her initials on the patch before applying it to the patient's skin.
4. The student nurse placed the new patch on the patient's right shoulder because the last patch was on the left shoulder.
Question 2
The nurse is providing meperidine (Demerol) to a patient who reports postsurgical pain 8/10. The order is for 50 mg to be orally administered to the patient in tablet form every 4 hours, but each tablet contains 100 mg. The best action by the nurse is to
1. Call the doctor to request that the order be changed to 100 mg every 8 hours.
2. Administer half of the tablet to the patient and then discard the other half by flushing it down the toilet.
3. Administer half the tablet to the patient and dispose of the other half in a chemical waste container with another licensed nurse as a witness, recording the narcotic drug wastage on the narcotic record and having the witness cosign.
4. Administer half the tablet to the patient and save the other half for the next dose.
Skin
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