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If a physician desires a drug to be administered as needed, he or she would prescribe it to be given QHS.

You are administering an aerosol treatment to a patient via a small volume nebulizer when you realize that the output appears to be much less than normal. On checking the flow meter, you see that it is set to 7 L/min. Your next action is to:

Which of the following contains a once-a-day anticholinergic? 

A dosage schedule for pediatric use of albuterol (0.5%) is 0.03 mL/kg. You have a 44-lb, 12-month-old patient in the emergency department. How many milliliters of solution will you need?

Results of a patient’s PFT show that the peak flow rate increased the most when she inhaled an aerosolized sympathomimetic agent and an aerosolized parasympatholytic agent. You would recommend that she be given which of the following? 

A client is experiencing severe chest pain following an electrical injury while installing an electric pole during a storm where lightning struck and traveled through the lines to where the lineman was working. Which priority assessment data should be obtained from this client?

The emergency department nurse is caring for a client who was just admitted with left anterior chest pain, possible acute myocardial infarction (MI). Which action will the nurse take first considering that the nurse understands the pathophysiological reason  causing myocardial injury during this patients complaint of chest pain. 

The patient is ordered to have a Potassium infusion for a level 3.3 K+ on morning labs. What is the nurse’s safest appropriate action at this time? 

Which is the best objective measurement to set as a priority for a client with inadequate oxygenation due to pneumonia?

The intensive care nurse is educating the spouse of a client who is being treated for shock. The spouse states, “The doctor said she has shock. What is that?” What is the nurse’s best response to explain this condition?