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The client takes calcium supplements. What is the best instruction by the nurse?

The nurse is doing patient teaching with an adolescent newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus and her family. The nurse teaches the patient and family that what will decrease the body’s need for insulin?

The nurse is caring for a type 1 diabetic patient who is being discharged home tomorrow. Patient teaching includes assessing the patient’s self-care skills to determine if further diabetes teaching is required. What is the best way to assess the patient’s ability to prepare and give insulin?

An important function of calcium is to:

A female patient tells the nurse that she has pain and numbness to her thumb, first finger, and second finger of the right hand. The nurse discovers that the patient is employed as an auto mechanic, and that the pain is increased while working. This may indicate that the patient could possibly have what?

Family members bring a patient to the emergency department with pale cool skin, midsternal chest pain unrelieved with rest, and a history of CAD. What is the nurse aware of?

The Diabetic Educator is teaching a class on complications of diabetes for newly diagnosed diabetic children and their parents. The diabetic Educator would define hypoglycemia as what blood glucose level?

An adolescent, newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, asks the nurse what caused the diabetes. What would be the nurse’s best response?

The Diabetic Educator is assessing a hospitalized patient to see if it is necessary to reinforce parts of the patient’s knowledge of basic diabetic self-care skills. What would be an appropriate way for the Diabetic Educator to assess the patient’s knowledge of nutritional therapy in diabetes mellitus?

The nurse is preparing instructions for a patient who is going home with a cast on his leg. What teaching point is most critical to emphasize in the teaching session?