Please answer the following 6 questions concerning IV therapy.

Question Answered step-by-step Please answer the following 6 questions concerning IV therapy. 1- A nurse failed to clamp a pump regulating the flow of an antibiotic through a central venous access device of a child. This resulted in the delivery of nearly seven times the prescribed dosage of gentamicin, causing the child to become totally deaf. How can these errors be prevented in the future? 2- An emergency department nurse placed an I.V catheter that infiltrated in the client’s hand, resulting in reflex sympathetic dystrophy and the client not being able to return to work.  a. What legal actions could be taken against the nurse? b. How would you prevent this from happening to you? 3- After 30 minutes, your client experiences an increase in temperature during a transfusion of RBCs, his pulse rate is 120, and he is slightly short of breath. You discover baseline vital signs had not been taken as the RN directed the nurse’s aide to do before administering the transfusion. Discuss the complication that could be occurring and who is at fault. 4- You are a new employee at an acute-care hospital. You need to set up an electronic infusion device on a potassium piggyback and you discover that you have never used the facility’s infusion pumps. What are your options for solving this problem?5-  As a new graduate, you have been asked to change a complicated abdominal dressing on a client postoperatively. This client is receiving chemotherapy via a dual-lumen tunneled catheter. As you are cutting the dressing off, you accidentally puncture the catheter. a. What do you do?b. How could this have been avoided? 6- You attempt to flush an implanted port and administer the next dose of antibiotic when you meet resistance. The port catheter will not flush. a. What is your course of action?b. What agent would you anticipate would be used to declot the line? Health Science Science Nursing NURSING 257 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)