Question my instructor ask me

Editorial Team / Admin · Dec 24, 2015

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sjalv · Dec 30, 2015

I was asked by my instructor and didnt asnwer it and said It should be my homework.
1. Lab results for patient 1 came in, how lond do you have to report it to the physician
2. Your patient is in ct and his medications are due. What should you do
THANKS

These questions are lacking greatly in necessary information. What labs? Why is patient 1 hospitalized? What is his or her immediate issue? Why were the labs drawn? What were the lab values?

Why are they in CT? What is the medication? What route is it to be given?

You can't reasonably answer either question as written without more information.

KelRN215, BSN, RN · Dec 31, 2015

These questions are lacking greatly in necessary information. What labs? Why is patient 1 hospitalized? What is his or her immediate issue? Why were the labs drawn? What were the lab values?
Why are they in CT? What is the medication? What route is it to be given?
You can't reasonably answer either question as written without more information.

Agree. If the lab results are normal, there's no expected turn around time for the nurse to notify the physician. If the lab results are critical, that's a different story. Would you report a Hgb of 14 to the physician with the same urgency that you would an Hgb of 4?

The medication question clearly doesn't have an all or nothing answer either. If your patient has been desensitized to an antibiotic that he needs to treat a critical infection, it's more important to keep on schedule than it is to give something like scheduled colace.

RescueNinjaKy · Dec 31, 2015

Agree. If the lab results are normal, there's no expected turn around time for the nurse to notify the physician. If the lab results are critical, that's a different story. Would you report a Hgb of 14 to the physician with the same urgency that you would an Hgb of 4?
The medication question clearly doesn't have an all or nothing answer either. If your patient has been desensitized to an antibiotic that he needs to treat a critical infection, it's more important to keep on schedule than it is to give something like scheduled colace.

Heck I don't even notify them about normal results unless they specifically ask me to. They can look up the damn results themselves. Now critical lab results are a different matter.