The nurse reviews the patient’s chart and advocates for which intervention?
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The patient is a 5-year-old boy who presents with anticholinergic toxicity and has been prescribed physostigmine 0.02 mg/kg q10min until the patient’s heart rate drops to 100 beats per minute. The patient’s heart rate is 132 bpm and he weighs 42 pounds. It takes 40 minutes after the first dose for the patient’s heart rate to decrease to 100 bpm. How much total physostigmine, in mg, does the nurse administer? Input your answer to the nearest hundredth decimal place.
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- Difficulty: 5
The nurse is performing an initial assessment of a patient with heart failure. Two minutes after checking the patient’s pedal pulses, the nurse notes that fingertip indentions that are 5 mm deep are left on the patient’s feet. How does the nurse document this finding?
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