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BSN 215 HESI RN Specialty Dosage Calculation Exam (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Questions and Verified Answers |100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: A client returns to the nursing unit from surgery with a prescription for Lactated Ringer's solution 1,000 ml to be infused over 10 hours. The IV administration set delivers 60 gtts/ml. The nurse should regulate the infusion to deliver how many gtts/minute? Answer: 100 First convert hours to minutes: 10 hrs x 60 = 600 minut...

BSN 215 Pharmacology I Quiz Questions & Answers (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) | 100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: A patient will receive intravenous midazolam (Versed) combined with fentanyl while undergoing an endoscopic procedure. The nurse is explaining the reasons for this to a nursing student before the procedure. Which statement by the student indicates understanding of the teaching? Answer: "The patient will not remember the procedure." Question: A nurse i...

BSN 215 Pharmacology I Week 3 Exam (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: Match each of the four statements to the correct right of medication administration. Answer: The medication is ordered orally. Right route The nurse reads the medical record number. Right patient The correct date is placed on the medication record. Right documentation The nurse knows the amount of medicine to administer. Right dosage ...

BSN 215 RN Pharmacology I Exam (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) | Review Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: The nurse records a handwritten telephone order for ketorolac 30 mg IM q6h prn for pain. Which signature line would the nurse add in the order? Answer: VORB Dr. John James/Sue Smith, RN This is the correct signature line that the nurse would include, as it has the licensed prescriber's name, the notation that this is a verbal order (VORB, verbal o...

BSN 215 Pharmacology I Week 4 Exam (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: Which nurses can prescribe medications? Answer: NPs APNs Question: A healthcare provider calls in a new order and the nurse writes it down. What is the next step? Answer: read it back Question: What is the last step in receiving a telephone order? Answer: receive confirmation Question: Which order is written correctly for an ...

BSN 215 Pharmacology I Week 3 Exam (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: What are drug-drug interactions? Answer: Intended or unintended effects of drugs on each other. Question: What are the possible outcomes of drug-drug interactions? Answer: Intensified, diminished, or new effects. Question: What are potentiative interactions? Answer: Beneficial when they increase therapeutic effects. Question: What are inh...

BSN 215 Pharmacology I Week 1 Exam (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: What should you MUST know as a nurse? Answer: Drug name, therapeutic category, patient name, generic name, dosage, dosing schedule, route and technique of administration, expected therapeutic response, nondrug measures, duration of treatment, method of drug storage, symptoms of major adverse effects, measures to minimize discomfort and harm, whom to contac...

BSN 215 Pharmacology I Quiz Week 1 - 16 (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) | Review Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: Which patients should be given antibiotics prophylactically? (Select all that apply) Answer: c. patients with certain congenital heart defects at risk for bacterial endocarditis d. patients with compound fractures undergoing surgical repair Question: A nursing student wants to know the differences between hospital-associated methicillin...

BSN 215 HESI RN Specialty Dosage Calculation Exam Prep (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Questions and Verified Answers |100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: A healthcare provider orders 180 mg of a medication by mouth. Available are 60 mg capsules. Give __ capsules. Answer: 3 1. Use the dimensional analysis formula. X = V (vehicle)/H (on hand) × C(H)/C(D) × D/1 2. Plug in the known values and calculate. X = 1 capsule/60 mg × 180 mg/1 X= 3 capsules Question: A p...

BSN 215 Pharmacology I Test Review Questions & Answers (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) | 100% Correct | Grade A - Nightingale Question: Which factor determines insulin boluses given before meals via the insulin pump? Answer: preprandial blood glucose levels estimation of carbohydrates that will be consumed anticipated activity level after eating Question: Which type of parenteral medication packaging does the following image illustrate? Answer: cartridge Question: An insu...