Difficulty: Medium
Average Score: 80%
Full-length
Passage / Scenario
While retrieving her voice messages, the public health nurse received a call from the patient who is receiving short acting insulin for her diabetes. The patient states, 'I know I have a severely low sugar since the regular insulin was given 3 hours ago and it peaks in 2 hours.'When the nurse returns the call, the first question she will ask the patient would be?
Correct answer
B
Rationale
Hypoglycemia is likely if the patient has not eaten post-insulin, making this the priority question to assess the cause.