medium · NCLEX-RN Safety and Infection Prevention and Control
At 0900, an RN discovers that a client was accidentally administered another client's dose of 10 units of insulin aspart at 0830. The client is currently awake and denies distress.
Which action should the RN perform first?
- Provide 15 grams of simple carbohydrates as a precaution.
- Complete an incident report via the facility's reporting system.
- Obtain a capillary blood glucose reading immediately.
- Notify the nurse manager of the unit-level medication error.
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