Renal Part 1
When properly functioning, this system is vital to overall health for removal of waste products, regulating fluid and electrolyte, acid-base balance and promoting integrity of bones
What is the Renal System?
Most common treatment for a simple UTI.
What are antibiotics and nonopioid analgesics?
Classic skin finding in Addison’s disease
What is hyperpigmentation of skin and mucous membranes?
Blood test that best reflects kidney function
What is serum creatinine?
Nursing priority for patient with Addison’s crisis.
What is preventing circulatory shock by giving corticosteroids and fluids?
Normal GFR range in healthy adults
What is 90–120 mL/min/1.73m²?
Classic diagnostic finding in acute pyelonephritis
What is flank pain with fever and positive urine culture?
Most common cause of Cushing’s syndrome
What is overuse of corticosteroid medications?
A positive low-dose dexamethasone suppression test indicates this disease
What is Cushing’s syndrome?
Name one major complication of untreated Cushing’s syndrome
What is cardiovascular disease, infection, or osteoporosis?
Two main functions of the kidneys that maintain homeostasis
What are removing waste products and regulating fluids/electrolytes?
Hereditary renal disorder causing cysts and kidney enlargement.
What is polycystic kidney disease?
Emergency complication of Addison’s disease.
What is an Addisonian crisis?
Electrolyte imbalance commonly seen in Addison’s disease
What is hyponatremia or hyperkalemia?
Nursing priority for patient with Cushing’s syndrome
What is preventing infection and promoting skin integrity?
A kidney transplant patient develops fever, decreased urine output, and tenderness over the graft site. What complication should the nurse suspect, and what is the critical nursing action?
**organ rejection**, and the critical nursing action is **notify the provider immediately and monitor immunosuppressive therapy adherence**.
Electrolyte imbalance most concerning in acute kidney injury
What is hyperkalemia?
One key difference in presentation between DKA and HHS.
What is Kussmaul respirations in DKA vs. neurologic changes in HHS?
Elevated anion gap indicates this metabolic complication
What is DKA?
Major complication of untreated pyelonephritis.
What is renal scarring leading to chronic kidney disease?
A patient with chronic kidney disease is prescribed erythropoietin. What complication is this medication primarily preventing?
What is anemia due to decreased erythropoietin production
Lifelong nursing concern for kidney transplant patients.
What is monitoring for infection and adherence to immunosuppressants?
A client presents with moon face, truncal obesity, and purple striae. What endocrine disorder do these findings suggest?
What is Cushing’s syndrome?
Which electrolyte imbalance is most life-threatening if untreated: hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, or hypocalcemia?
What is **hyperkalemia** (risk of fatal arrhythmias)
Life-threatening complication of untreated DKA or HHS
What is cardiac arrhythmia, shock, or death?