Lab Values
Lab Value is:
135-145 mEq/L
What is Sodium (Na+)
This med has an increased risk for client harm if the nurse makes an error.
The description for "High Alert" medications
An inflammation in the blood vessels throughout the body. Usually affects children younger than age 5
What is Kawasaki disease?
Ischemic or Hemorrhagic
What are the two main types of Cerebrovascular Accident?
Fever, Severe Headache, Nausea/Vomiting, Nuchal Rigidity
What are the key signs of meningitis?
Normal Lab value: 3.5-5.0 mmOl/L
What is the normal lab value for Potassium (K+)
Protamine
What is the reversal medications for a Heparin overdose?
An autoimmune disease can affect the joints, skin,kidneys and other organs.
What is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus? (SLE)
Physysiological needs, Safety needs, Love and belonging, Esteem, Self-actualization.
Brief loss of consciousness,, rapid eye blinking, staring into space.
What is a Absence seizure?
Normal lab value: 1.5-2.5 mEq/l
What is the normal lab value for Magnesium?
Aspirin
What is a antiplatelet?
Medications that contain female hormones to replace the ones that a client's body no longer produces.
What is Hormone therapy (HT)
Inadaquate blood flow to the brain resulting from a partial or complete occlusion of an artery
What is a Ischemic Stroke
Loss of conciousness with muscle spasms.
Tonic-clonic seizure
Lab value:
7.35-7.45
What is the normal lab value for Arterial blood pH??
These pills are always color coded
What are the coumadin tablets?
150,000-450,000
Normal range of platelets
Smoking, Obesity, Hypertension, Diet and Exercise
What is a Modifiable Risk?
Maintain a clear airway, pad the siderails, reduce stimuli.
Treatment for an active seizure client.
Normal level is 8.6-10.2
What is the normal lab range of Calcium (Ca+)
2-3 lab result
What is the INR goal level for a client with a history of DVT/PE?
4,000-11,000
What is the normal lab range of White Blood Count (WBC)?
Dysarthria
What is a disturbance in muscular control of speech?
Brain tumors, Birth Injury, Infection
What are some of the risk factors for seizures?