The Nurse's Safest Action to Ensure Tube Placement When Preparing

question 21

Multiple Choice

The nurse's safest action to ensure tube placement when preparing to initiate a gavage feeding is to:

• A) Check tube placement by injecting air into the stomach
• B) Weigh the infant before the feeding
• C) Aspirate stomach contents
• D) Check serum glucose level

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Definitions:

Hormone

Biological substances synthesized by glands in multicellular organisms, transported by the circulatory system to distant organs to regulate physiology and behavior.

Diploid

Refers to cells that have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent.

Meiosis

A type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, resulting in four distinct daughter cells, each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, crucial for sexual reproduction.

Chromosomes

Threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes and convey genetic information in the nucleus of cells.