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Question 36 (1.5 points) A patient has four medications due at 0800. The nurse removes the medications from the automated dispensing cabinet, prepares them, and performs two medication checks in the medication room. When the nurse enters the room, the patient is on the phone. The patient is very trustworthy and gestures for the nurse to leave the medications on the bedside table. What would be the next best action by the nurse? Ask another nurse (who is less busy) to wait in room with the medications and administer them once the patient is off the phone. Verify the medication and patient's identity using the barcode scanner and leave the medications at the bedside. Tell the patient, "I will be back with your medications in a few minutes," and take the medications out of the patient's room. Chart the medications as "refused". Administer the medications when the patient is off the phone and change the MAR documentation to "given"
Question 37 (1.5 points) A nurse at a health care facility administers a prescribed drug to a patient and does not record doing so in the medical administration record. The nurse who comes during the next shift, assuming that the medication has not been administered, administers the same drug to the patient again. The nurse on the previous shift calls to inform the health care facility that the administration of the drug to this patient in the earlier shift was not recorded. What should the nurse on duty do immediately upon detection of the medication error? Fill out an incident report. Check on the patient's well being. Report the incident to the physician. Report the incident to the supervising nurse.
Question 38 (1.5 points) A patient has an order for: Albuterol, 2 puffs, inhaled, every 4 hours, PRN A nurse reads the order and remembers the medication is a bronchodilator and comes as a metered-dose inhaler. What should the nurse teach the patient about using this medication? "You can take the second puff immediately after the first puff." "If your husband is having a hard time breathing, he can use your inhaler." "To get the most medication into your lungs, you should use a spacer." $4 "The medication orders says to take your inhaler every 4 hours, even if you don't need it."