- Hypokalemia
- Hyperkalemia
- Hyponatremia
- Hypocalcemia
Category: BS Nursing
- Bipolar I Disorder
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- High level of consciousness
- Normal cognitive function
- Impaired neurological function
- Minimal neurological impairment
- Immediately offer advice to fix their problem
- Sit silently and allow them to experience their emotions, while remaining present and supportive
- Tell them to stop crying
- Change the subject to distract them
- Minimizing patient interaction
- Delivering safe and high-quality patient care
- Avoiding individual responsibility
- Completing tasks independently
- Increased risk of hypertension
- Increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding
- Increased risk of constipation
- Decreased effectiveness of the NSAID
- This is normal for all insulins
- This indicates contamination, discard it
- This indicates it is NPH or a mixed insulin, which can be cloudy
- This indicates it is expired
- Bronchitis
- Upper airway obstruction
- Pneumonia
- Asthma
- Pneumonia; administer antibiotics
- Pulmonary edema; elevate head of bed, administer oxygen, and notify physician
- Asthma attack; administer bronchodilator
- Dehydration; increase fluid intake
- Tell them to forgive the family member
- Validate their feelings and explore the source and impact of the anger
- Tell them anger is a negative emotion
- Advise them to cut off contact with the family member
- Increased libido
- Erectile dysfunction or delayed ejaculation
- Priapism
- Hypersexuality
- 60-80 compressions/minute
- 80-100 compressions/minute
- 100-120 compressions/minute
- 120-140 compressions/minute
- Aspirate for blood return
- Flush with medication
- Pinch the tubing
- Observe for swelling only
- Tell them to stand up slowly
- Assist them to a sitting or lying position and assess orthostatic vital signs
- Ignore their complaint
- Encourage them to walk around
- Assure them that nothing will ever be shared
- Explain the limits of confidentiality, including duty to warn/protect exceptions
- Tell them it's not their business
- Say that everything is recorded and shared with everyone
- Tell them to stop the medication immediately
- Suggest taking the medication with food or at a different time, and advise them to discuss with their prescriber
- Tell them to double the dose
- Inform them that these side effects are unavoidable
- Bradypnea
- Bradycardia
- Tachycardia and hypotension
- Hypertension
- Benign positional vertigo
- Stroke or neurological event
- Migraine
- Inner ear infection
- Supine
- High-Fowler's
- Side-lying or semi-Fowler's with head turned to the side
- Trendelenburg
