A patient refuses a PRN medication. By recording the patient’s refusal and reason for declining the medication, the nurse is adhering to which of the “rights” for medication administration?

In assessing a patient before administration of cardiac medications, the nurse knows the importance of checking lab results. Which of the following labs should cause concern to the nurse?

A patient has been started on risperidone. The nurse recognizes that the drug is being effective when the patient reports which of the following?

During a teaching session about self-monitoring while taking a beta blocker, which of the following statements made by the patient would indicate that the nurse’s teaching was effective?

Shortly after entering the cranial vault the vertebral arteries unite and become the __________________________.

A company uses a process costing system. Its Welding Department completed and transferred out 100,000 units during the current period. The ending inventory in the Welding Department consists of 30,000 units (75% complete with respect to direct materials and 40% complete with respect to conversion costs).Determine the equivalent units of production for the Welding Department for direct materials and conversion costs assuming the weighted average method.

After receiving an albuterol nebulizer treatment, the patient complains of feeling slightly nervous and wonders if her asthma is getting worse. What is the nurse’s best response?

The nurse is assessing a patient who has asked for something to help “get rid of the excessive mucus” in the respiratory tract. Which of the following medications would the nurse choose? 

A patient recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism and taking levothyroxine for 6 weeks returns to the clinic for follow-up. The nurse would expect which of the following labs to be ordered?

You administer medications and about 30 minutes later the person-served vomits. What is the action you should take?