Hemodialysis

infection is an infection that develops when a person is receiving medical care in a health care setting, such as: A hospital. An outpatient clinic. A doctors’ office. A long-term care facility, such as a nursing home. A hemodialysis unit. A surgery center. You get this kind of infection when receiving medical care for something else. Common types of healthcare-associated infections include: Bloodstream infections from IV lines. Bacterial infections that…

Hypertension also referred to as blood pressure, it 's the force pushing against the walls of arteries as it flows through them, (Medical Dictionary, 2016). When the heart beats to push out blood from the arteries blood pressure is at its highest.Hypertension sometimes called “Silent killer” because patients can live with the condition for years without any signs and symptoms. Systolic is the first blood pressure reading, it is when the heart is contracting while diastolic is the second blood…

clinical areas. As a nurse, I have seen and continue to receive long lists of the same non-compliant patients come through our unit because they did not taking their blood pressure medicines and now in hypertensive crisis, or did not show up for hemodialysis now overloaded have to have emergent dialysis, or the diabetics not eating right nor taking their insulin now in DKA needing Endotool (insulin drip) and ventilator support for severe metabolic acidosis. Taking care of noncompliant patients…

Professional Values for the BSN Student Name: Using this format, prepare a 30 - 50 word response in each box that describes your understanding of the values for the BSN nursing student. Review the assigned reading assignments found in the Electronic Reserve Readings, located in the Materials page of the student Web site. Prepare an APA-formatted reference page. |Define: |Identify how nurses demonstrate this value.|Discuss how you demonstrate this value…

The most common therapy is hemodialysis and costs our system an average of $60,000 per patient per year (KFOC, 2012). Currently in Ontario there are rough 10,000 patients with ESRD (ORN, 2014). With rising fiscal constraints and a government pushing for efficiencies in the system, the…

hypoglycemia. Glucagon can also be administered intravenously in patients with refractory hypotension. If all of the above treatments have failed a phosphodiesterase inhibitor can be given to help improve conductivity in the heart. 9. In this case hemodialysis will be of little benefit because the nifedipine is highly protein bound at 92-98% and has a large volume of distribution. Only a small percentage of the free fraction of drug would be capable of passing through the dialysis membrane for…

Knowing the importance of evidence based practice in the nursing profession; various guidelines has been established in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre with a systematic of review of the literature, critical clinical appraisals and expert opinion which provides the supporting evidence. One of such kind of guidelines was generated for the management of hypertension in CKD patients. Hypertension is one of the conditions for which guidelines generated by different organizations…

Aspiration pneumonia is a condition in which there is inflammation in the lungs and bronchial tubes as a result from inhaling foreign matter. Aspiration pneumonia most likely a result from inhaling food, vomitus, or liquid. This may lead to a bacterial infection. Risk factors include sedation, coma, intoxication, poor gag reflex, dysphagia, and age, particularly in older adults. Visual signals of aspiration pneumonia include chest pain, cyanosis, crackling in the lungs, decreased oxygen,…

I take great pride in being the first doctor in my family and often reflect on the reasons I have been so successful in my endeavors. Having a brother with a congenital heart disease gave me an opportunity to care for others from a very young age, which has since developed into a strong desire to be in a medical field to reduce the suffering. Two questions formed in my young mind: what is inside the human body, and how does disease develop? These same questions fostered my journey in medical…

Weekly Self S.O.A.P - A. S- Discuss your SUBJECTIVE feelings for this week. This week I was assigned to be in the ICU. To say that I expected to be busy is an understatement. I knew to expect critically ill patients and to see them at their worse with different types of lines and tubes coming out of their bodies. The fragile state in which these patients find themselves was hard for me to see, it was actually a bit overwhelming the first day. The second day was slightly easier, at first.…