A Postpartum Patient Weighing 165 L B Is Prescribed a Subcutaneous

question 21

Short Answer

A postpartum patient weighing 165 l b is prescribed a subcutaneous injection of Enoxaparin 1 m g/k g twice daily. The medication available is 50 m g/m L. How many m L of medication should the nurse provide for each injection? (Calculate to the nearest tenth decimal point.)

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Definitions:

Latent Learning

A form of learning that occurs without any obvious reinforcement of the behavior or associations that are learned, becoming apparent when there is an incentive to demonstrate it.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a pause, without the need for further conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A method of learning where, through continuous pairing, a reaction initially induced by a second stimulus comes to be provoked by the first stimulus instead.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.