A Client Who Is Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

question 14

Multiple Choice

A client who is admitted to the intensive care unit for monitoring notices the arthritis medication does not look like the one used at home and asks the nurse why.What is the nurseís best response? Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

• A)"This is a different brand from the one you use at home,but it will give you the same pain relief."
• B)"Your health care provider feels we can safely substitute this drug for the drug you use at home."
• C)"This generic drug is the one we have on formulary in the pharmacy.It has the same ingredients as the one you use at home."
• D)"This is what we have in the pharmacy.Go ahead and take it for now and let me know if it doesn't relieve the pain."
• E)"The medications in the hospital often do not look like the ones you get from the pharmacy."

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Definitions:

Variable Costing

A financial accounting approach that incorporates only variable production charges (direct materials, direct labor, and variable manufacturing overhead) into the cost structure of products.

Unit Product Cost

The total cost to produce one unit of a product, including direct materials, direct labor, and allocated manufacturing overheads.

Absorption Costing

An accounting method that includes all manufacturing costs - direct labor, direct materials, and both variable and fixed overhead - in the cost of a product.

Unit Product Cost

The complete expenditure involved in creating a single item of a product, encompassing both fluctuating and constant costs.