A diabetes nurse educator is teaching a client, newly diagnosed with diabetes, about the disease process, diet, exercise, and medications. What is the goal of this education?

Chap 30 listed many routes that a drug can be administered. Please list 5 routes AND explain what that route is. For example: Oral Route- swallow medication. (Yes, you can use this one as one of your examples). 1 point per route/explanation. If you get the route correct but can’t explain the route you do not get that point. 

A nurse is reviewing the health history of an African American client who has come to the clinic for an evaluation. Based on the nurse’s understanding of physiologic variations in racial and ethnic groups, the nurse is alert for the possibility of which condition?

What is the term that describes the inability of a person to recognize one’s own values, beliefs, and practices as well as those of others, because of strong ethnocentric tendencies?

When providing culturally respectful care to a client from a different cultural background, which question is appropriate to begin a pain assessment?

The parents of an infant with apnea need to be educated on the apnea monitor and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. What should the nurse assess first regarding the parents?

A nurse at a health care facility administers a prescribed drug to a client and does not record doing so in the medical administration record. The nurse who comes during the next shift, assuming that the medication has not been administered, administers the same drug to the client again. The nurse on the previous shift calls to inform the health care facility that the administration of the drug to this client in the earlier shift was not recorded. What should the nurse on duty do immediately upon detection of the medication error?

What is the most critical element to document regarding client education?

A group of clinic nurses are engaged in a staff meeting discussion about culture to improve culturally respectful care being given to the clients. Which statement by one of the nurses indicates the need for further clarification and education?

A client who has been taking no medications has just been diagnosed as having diabetes. The client is prescribed an injectable medication once a day and an oral medication twice a day for blood glucose control. What would the nurse teach the client about taking these medications? Select all that apply.