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I had my schoo's Dean of nursing ( she was also my Med Surg 1 teacher ) tell my entire class "that if we didnt like how things were done in this nursing program then we know where the damn door is" " We were the biggest group of complainers they had ever had and that we were setting ourselves up for failure". All this was simple because we were worried about taking a test that 2/3 of the material was her material that was not taught to us (all we got were these measly handouts with VERY little info on them) because her mother got sick and she was not available for classs. Secondly, I barely passed med surg 1 ( i got a 75.3, I needed a 75 to pass) I had her flat out tell me that I would not pass med surg 2 going in with a grade like that. Guess what, I didnt pass it and Im currently retaking it all because of her tellign me I wont pass. I gave up and stopped trying because I was constantly thinking about what she had said.

The answer is A. If the patient requests it to be given another way, you MUST get permission from the doctor. Nurses CANNOT change routes of medications without permission from the prescriber. If the patient wants to wait until you get permission then you would document that the medicine was not given and the reason why. The documentation will cover your behind in case there is ever questions that arise down the road.

My instructor has a tendency of putting reconstitution dosage calculations on our exams.The problem is she asks for the dilution information. For example: (I just made this up so I dont know if it will actually work out. I just need to know how to set the problem up) A pt is ordered to receive 70mg of gentamicin IM. The drug needs to be reconstituted to achieve a concentration of 200mg/mL. How many mL of dilution should be added. How do you solve these types of problems?