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Normal Range of Creatinine
What is 0.5-1.2
What should you do before you infuse dialysate
What is warm solution and check for clear colorless solution
What are the three different types of acute renal failure
What is prerenal, intrarenal, and postrenal
What is something you want to warn the patient when taking Phenaxopyridine (AZO) for a UTI
What is this drug will turn your secretions bright orange
Contraindications for Hypospadias/Epispadias
What is no circumcisions
The client with acute renal failure has a serum potassium of 6.0 mEq/L. The nurse would plan which of the following as a priority action
What is place the client on a cardiac monitor
What are some advantages of peritoneal dialysis
What is flexible schedule for exchanges, few hemodynamic changes during and following exchanges, and fewer dietary and fluid restrictions
Top four disorders that can cause renal failure
What is hypertension, diabetes mellitus, lupus, and glomerulonephritis
Interventions for NSAIDs
What is give with food and drink lots of water
Define VUR- Vesicoureteral Reflux
What is backward flow of urine in the urinary tract when voiding
If the patient's sodium level drops below 135 what do you need to watch for
What is seizures, place the patient on seizure precautions
What are the different methods of peritoneal dialysis
What is manual, automated, intermittent, continuous, CAPD (continuous ambulatory)
Which type of acute renal failure is the most common and what happens during this type
What is prerenal and there is decreased blood flow to the kidneys
Metformin education
What is stop 3-4 days before CT scan and drink a ton of water after a CT scan
Enuresis treatment
What is stress management, limiting fluids at night, and desmopressin
How is creatinine clearance measured
What is 24 hour urine sample
A 30 y.o. female patient is undergoing hemodialysis with an internal arteriovenous fistula in place. What do you do to prevent complications associated with this device
What is avoid taking blood pressures in the arm with that fistula, no blood draws, no IVs
Key features of chronic renal failure
What is metallic taste in the mouth, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, muscle cramps, "frost on the skin", itching, fatigue, hiccups, edema, dyspnea, and paraesthesias
Interventions for nephrotoxic drugs
What is make sure to dilute and to give it slow
Interventions for VUR - Vescoureteral Reflux
What is administer low-dose antibiotics, teach to force fluids and have child void at least every 3 hours, administer analgesics and antispasmodics for bladder spasms
If the patient's labs indicate that the GFR is <15ml/min what is the main intervention
What is put the patient on permanent dialysis
Your patient becomes restless and tells you she has a headache and feels nauseous during hemodialysis. Which complication do you suspect
What is Disequilibrium syndrome
Dietary considerations with a patient who has chronic renal failure
What is decrease protein, potassium, sodium, phosphorous, magnesium, fluids and increase vitamins and calories
Heparin remains active in the body for how long
What is 4 to 6 hours
Signs and symptoms VUR- Vescoureteral Reflux
What is dysuria, urinary frequency, urgency, hesitancy, urine retention, cloudy, dark, or blood-tinged urine