The nurse is caring for a client with suspected bacterial meningitis. what is a priority action for the nurse to initiate?

Of the following give choices;

Provide analgesia.

Give the Hib vaccine.

Practice airborne precautions.

Provide IV antibiotics.

The answer is Provide IV antibiotics. Bacterial meningitis is a medical emergency since it could lead to death within hours or few days if not managed/treated.  When IV antibiotics are given, in high doses (so they are able to pass the blood-brain barrier), the chances of deaths of the patient are reduced to 5% in all cases of bacterial meningitis.  

when atoms of different types of elements join together, they make molecules called compounds. water consists of compound molecules made up of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom. this is why it's called h2o. water will always have 2 times the number of hydrogen atoms as oxygen atoms.