The nurse is teaching a hospitalized client with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes about using finger-stick glucose monitoring. The client tells the nurse that the finger-stick strip shows a blood glucose level of 48 mg/dL (48 mmol/L). What should the nurse do first?
a. Notify the health care provider (HCP) of the results.
b. Obtain a serum glucose level.
c. Have the client repeat the finger stick in 30 minutes.
d. Start an intravenous infusion.
