It's all fun and games until your jeans don't fit
Includes all liquids that are transparent enough you can read a newspaper through it.
Clear Liquid Diet
Tube inserted through the nose down to the stomach; 8-12 fr is the size usually used for feeding.
NG tube
Patients on warfarin should avoid foods high in what vitamin?
Vitamin K
Leakage of drugs or fluids into the tissue surrounding blood vessels.
IV infiltration
Microdrip tubing has a calibration of _______.
60 drops/mL
Diet of choice for patients with acute/chronic difficulties chewing.
Mechanical Soft Diet
The process of reducing pressure within the stomach by emptying of its contents such as liquids, gastric juices and gas.
Gastric Decompression
Long-term S/E of this drug include moonface, hyperglycemia and weight gain.
Corticosteroids
Name 2 S/S of IV infiltration.
Ordered: 250 mL D5W over 3 hour by infusion pump. What is the flow rate? Whole number.:
83 mL/hour
Consists of all clear liquids with addition of opaque liquids & food items that become liquid at room temp.
Full Liquid Diet
The most reliable way to check placement of an NG tube?
X-Ray
Sodium levels need to be monitored on patient's taking what mood-stabilizing medication?
Lithium
Name 2 S/S of phlebitis
Redness, pain, swelling, warmth
Ordered: 1000 mL RL over 6 hours. What is the flow rate in milliliters per hour? Whole number.
167 mL/hour
Includes scrambled eggs, mashed potatoes, baby foods
Pureed Diet
Uses the bloodstream via a peripheral or central vein to supply nutrition.
Parenteral Nutrition
With what big drug group would you educate patients to increase daily fiber intake to prevent constipation?
Narcotics/Analgesics
Name the nursing interventions for phlebitis.
Stop IV, remove catheter.
The nurse needs to infuse a dose of 250 mL gentamicin over 120 minutes.
What flow rate should the nurse use, in mL/hr?
125
Used for patients with htn, chf or kidney/liver failure.
Sodium-Restricted Diet
Uses the GI tract as a nutritional delivery system.(NG,NI,PEG tubes)
Enteral Nutrition
What drugs interfere with the normal flora of the body, so we educate patients to take probiotics/yogurt in unison with?
Antibiotics
A large volume of air entering the patient's IV line.
air embolism
Order: 1000 mL of 0.45% sodium chloride to infuse at 120 mL/hr. The drop factor is 15 drops/ml
Calculate the infusion rate in drops/minute.
30