The nurse is assigned to a 55-year-old patient admitted for diabetic ketoacidosis. The provider writes the patient’s insulin regimen on the admission orders as follows, - “insulin NPH 25 IU.” Which action by the nurse is most appropriate?

Contact the provider to confirm the medication order. The provider should be contacted because there is no clear indication for how the medication should be administered. In addition, the use of the abbreviation IU for international units of medication has been discontinued because it can be easily confused with the abbreviation for IV (intravenous). Therefore, this order needs to be clarified. The provider should be contacted rather than the pharmacy to clarify the order since the provider is the one who wrote it. Administering the medication is not appropriate since the order is not clear.

The nurse is assigned to a 55-year-old patient admitted for diabe...

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