A nurse is caring for a patient with diabetes who requires blood ...

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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.

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: 1

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 3

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