The nurse reporting on duty is assigned to care for a child with a diagnosis of sickle cell anemia. ...

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A Incorrect. Hearing the child with sickle cell anemia is clock watching, the nurse will not suspect that the child is drug addicted.
B Incorrect. Hearing the child with sickle cell anemia is clock watching, the nurse will not suspect that the child is on the way to being drug addicted.
C Correct. Children experiencing sickle cell crisis are often undermedicated, resulting in clock watching and requests for additional doses occurring sooner than prescribed.
D Incorrect. Hearing the child with sickle cell anemia is clock watching, the nurse will not suspect that the child is over-medicated and needs to be weaned downward.