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A pre-operative client expresses anxiety to a nurse about upcoming surgery. Which response by the nurse is most likely to stimulate further discussion between the patient and the nurse?

When administering IVPB medication the nurse will perform all of the following except  

How long after the blood product has started infusing must the nurse stay with the patient?    

You have just reassessed the postoperative patient who was admitted 1 hour ago to the surgical unit. Which of the following assessments would be the priority for the nurse to monitor during the next hour?

A nurse caring for a client postoperatively notes that the dressing on the client’s incision was recently clean and dry but is now saturated with a large amount of fresh blood. What intervention should be taken by the nurse in this situation along with notifying the primary care provider?

When preparing to administer an IVPB medication, the nurse first needs to:

When your patient is receiving a blood product, what is the longest amount of time over which the infusion can be given?

The standard of practice for administering IM injections to a newborn is:  

When administering IVPB medication the nurse will perform all of the following except  

A nurse is going to suction an adult patient with a tracheostomy who has copious amounts of secretions. The nurse does which of the following to accomplish this procedure safely and effectively?