Which of the Following Gives You Greater Control Over Medication

question 59

Multiple Choice

Which of the following gives you greater control over medication delivery and allows you to easily discontinue the infusion when therapy is complete or must be stopped?

• A) piggybacking IV infusions through an existing intravenous line
• B) establishing a primary IV line and ensuring patency
• C) inserting the hypodermic needle into the medication port and injecting the medication
• D) confirming the medication, indication, dosage, and need for an IV bolus

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Definitions:

Sociocentrism

The tendency to view one's own social group as centrally important and superior to other groups.

Symbolic Thinking

The ability to use symbols, words, or objects to represent something that is not physically present.

Preoperational Child

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development describing children aged 2 to 7, characterized by the development of language and symbolic thought but limited in logical reasoning.

Conservation

In cognitive psychology, the principle that properties of substances such as weight and mass remain the same (are conserved) when superficial characteristics such as their shapes or arrangement are changed.