Author Question: A nurse is caring for a patient with diabetes who requires blood glucose monitoring before meals and ... (Read 87 times)

mydiamond · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A nurse is caring for a patient with diabetes who requires blood glucose monitoring before meals and at bedtime. When checking the patient's blood glucose before lunch, the nurse documents the reading as 130 mg/dL. What should the nurse do next?

1. Continue to monitor.
2. Notify the patient's physician.
3. Give the patient an injection of insulin.
4. Administer a syringe of 50 dextrose.

Question 2

When performing an initial admission assessment on a patient with diabetes, a nurse checks the patient's blood glucose level. The nurse notes that the patient's blood glucose level is 280 mg/dL. The nurse recognizes this reading is consistent with

1. Hypoglycemia.
2. Diabetic coma.
3. Hyperglycemia.
4. A normal value.