Severity of hypoxia and adequacy of breathing
2. The physician writes an order for you to give the patient medication based on the patient's weight. The patient weighs 110 pounds. The order reads administer 3mg/kg of weight q 8 hours. How many mg will you administer to the patient per dose?
So that you do not administer treatment to the wrong patient.
Like a patient care aide or a certified nursing assistant? Yes, in some states they are allowed to administer certain medications after they obtain additional certification.
that's case to case basis if the patient has been experiencing hypoxia for the past 5-10 mins that is very dangerous to the patient cos it may cause irreversible brain damage cos hypoxia leads to hypoxemia that's the first thing you should worry about.. and the other case is if he/she is prone or begins to hyperventilate that leads to hypoxia which in turns to hypoxemia (inadequate oxygenation of the blood) then you should first give the patient sufficient O2 to prevent or lessen the possibility of client having hypoxemia... i think when the patient is in the hypoxemic stage it is automatically severe and dangerous and it needs critical care...
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Depends on the patient and the severity. In normally healthy younger people with mild to moderated cases it can usually be managed outpatient with oral antibiotics. In the very young (infants) and the very old, often due the weakness caused by the infection and the susceptibillity of their bodies to complications they will be treated as inpatients with IV antibiotics and supplemental oxygen. More severe cases in any age patient will require inpatient hospitalization, supplemental oxygen, Iv antibiotics with the potential for full ventilator support. ~MRKM RN LNC
Yes, a LPN can legally administer narcotics to a hospice patient.
The three interventions a RN is expected to know in order to treat a patient experiencing a tetrology of fallot are: bring the child's knees to the chest to increase the pressure of the left ventricle of the heart, administer oxygen to the patient and administer morphine to release the spasm of the pulmonary infundibulum. Source: University of Rochester Medical Center
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The number or injections that can safely be given is dependant on the patient's weight and the amount of Lidocaine you plan to administer.
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