The nurse is taking care of a client preoperatively. the client is npo and tells the nurse that he takes detemir insulin (levemir) and aspart insulin (novolog) at 0700 daily. the client's surgery is scheduled for 0900. which is the best action for the nurse to take?

Being an NPO patient implies that for the surgery the patient cannot eat food, for this reason what the nurse can do is they day before the surgery she can give the Novolog patient (fast action) the usual dose in the same way as it is administered in the morning The levemir that is slow acting can be administered normally. On the day of surgery, a glycemic profile is recommended and Novolog should be discontinued. Levemir should be administered in a lower percentage of the usual dose.