Provider's Order: Lactated Ringer's 2500 ml over 1 day

What is the hourly rate?

NOTE:

• DO NOT write the unit/s of measurement
• Enter your answer in whole number, example 133

A 17-year-old unconscious client has been admitted to the critical care unit in critical condition after a motor vehicle crash with proxy for health care decision-making assigned to the client's parents, who are divorced. When the client's hemoglobin drops to a critical level, the medical team approaches the parents regarding permission to initiate a blood transfusion, the client's mother, a practicing Jehovah's Witness, states that her child is also against such a medical intervention. The client's father does not share his ex-wife's belief that their child would refuse the lifesaving treatment and asks that the transfusion be given. What actions can be taken by the critical care nurse to assist in addressing this ethical dilemma that clearly involves the principles autonomy and beneficence? Select all that apply.

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A patient is mechanically ventilated and is receiving enteral nutrition via a nasogastric tube. To help ensure feeding tolerance, the nurse checks residual volumes every 4 hours. During a residual check later in the shift, the nurse aspirates a total residual volume of 200 mL. What action should the nurse take next?

A nurse is paying particular attention to the spiritual needs of a client today. The nurse identifies that spiritual beliefs can have a positive effect on general health of a client in which ways? Select all that apply.

You are explaining the importance of strict intake and output for patients with pulmonary alterations. What is the rationale for careful intake and output for patients with pulmonary alterations?

A tracheostomy patient is experiencing regurgitation of tube feeding formula. What should be the nurse's first priority?

Why is restraining a competent patient against his or her wishes considered an intentional tort?

A 45-year-old recovering heroin abuser is status post lumbar fusion and is admitted to the intensive care unit for pain management isses related to a diagnosis of degenerative disk disease and associated peripheral neuropathy. The client who is currently prescribed oxycodone/paracetamol 5 mg/325 mg two tablets every 4 hours around the clock, gabapentin 300 mg four times per day methadone 10 mg twice daily. The client is awake alert, and oriented X4 with stable vitals is able to move lower extremities bilaterally, but reports decreased sensations in feet bilaterally and reporting incisional pain as a 10 of 10 on the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS)

Select the medication that can be appropriately prescribed and administered to help address the client's addiction maintenance, and postoperative pain.

Which action is the priority for the forensic nurse examiner (RN-FNE) when caring for a patient who was abducted and gang-raped and is now in serious condition in the emergency department?

The nurse in the ICU is caring for a client who was found unresponsive on a sidewalk. The client's blood alcohol level was three times the normal range. Which medications are commonly used for alcohol withdrawal symptoms?

What outcomes do psychosocial and spiritual interventions have the power to employ in a patient? (Select all that apply, one, some, or all.)