Nursing 2230A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Packed Red Blood Cells, Parenteral Nutrition, Intravenous Therapy
9 Dec 2016
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Choose a medical condition that interests you as a nurse (diabetes, anxiety, eating disorder, copd) connect/link with your central concept. Adequately identifying problem, critical thinking, clear nursing lens (interventions, perspectives), organized. Electronic format (poplet, bubble) with visual appeal. Show understanding of class concepts, barriers/facilitators, clinical judgment. Clearly and logically represent connection (constipation diet exercise hydration meds) Have class concept and medical condition in the middle build some context. Iv therapy first used in the 1830s for treating cholera (fluid/electrolyte replacement) Technique is which a vein is punctured through the skin by a sharp rigid stylet. Term used to describe both iv therapy and blood specimen procurement. Why not artery pressure of artery is higher, venous return (going back to heart), less painful. Secondary added med running into primary, piggy back, mini bag. Bolus putting all in at once. Push can put in lower port or into skin, medication in syringe directly into vein, less diluted for more dramatic effect.
