[Verified Answer]: You are the RN on a busy…

You are the RN on a busy medical-surgical/telemetry floor at Anytown General Hospital. Each nurse on your unit typically cares for 3-5 patients. You have just arrived for your day shift and are receiving nurse-to-nurse reports from three different night shift nurses. After you receive reports, you will have an opportunity to review the current orders for each of your patients.“David Mueller is 72 years old, here for a right BKA. He is Dr. Snyder’s patient. Vitals are fine, he’s not on telemetry. Lungs are clear, he’s on room air. I think he still has an 18 gauge in his left a/c but I didn’t get a chance to flush it because he was sleeping most of the night. His finger sticks have been in the high 200s and he gets a sliding scale. That’s really all I have for him. I was so busy last night with a new admission and another patient who was on the call light all night long.” what should the nurse to notice from this case?