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| Common electrolytes in the main parts of the body? |
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• Calcium
• Chloride
• Magnesium
• Phosphorous
• Potassium
• Sodium |
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Weight
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height x height (1.6mtrs) |
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| Failure of the kidneys to produce urine |
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| Use this, when a patient is having trouble breathing by sitting them upright in the bed. |
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| Exercise for knee rehabilitation. Muscle contraction is one in which the muscle contracts and shortens at constant rate of speed |
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| What are the 6 Cycles of infection? |
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1. Infectious agent
2. Reservoir
3. Portal of Exit
4. Mode of Transmission
5. Portal of Entry
6. Susceptible Host |
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| A Mosquito (carrier of disease), soil, insect |
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| PPE, Hand hygiene, disposal of needles/sharps, waste and linen disposal, clean equipment between patients, keeping equipment for one patient use only, sterilization of catheters. |
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| Legal obligations as a nurse for infection control? |
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training of workers to work in a safe and competent manner
requirements to take steps to prevent injury, illness and disease |
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| Work Health and Safety Act Responsibility to be safe? |
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| Work health and safety (WHS) legislation in Australia aims to prevent injury and disease to persons in the workplace. |
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| ‘Duty of Care’ is also applicable when? |
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| legislation requires workers to take reasonable care of their own safety and health (and that of others), to work safely and follow safety procedures and rules, to report any WHS hazards or other problems to the PCBU, and to cooperate with WHS inspections, investigations and training |
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| The fluid within the tissue cells, constituting about 30-40% of the body weight. |
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| all of the body fluid lying outside the cells. Includes intravascular fluid or plasma and the interstitial fluid. That part of the extracellular fluid that is in special cavities which have special characteristics, e.g. synovial fluid, urine, aqueous humor of eye, are called transcellular fluids. |
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| an abnormal decrease in the osmolarity of the body fluids |
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| solutions have the same salt concentration as the surrounding blood cells. |
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| What is hypotonic solution? |
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| solution with a lower salt concentration than normal body cells so that water flows into the cells by osmosis; |
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| Why do we use a hypotonic solution? |
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| This solution is used to treat cellular dehydration. This solutions provide greater amount of water than electrolytes, and have decreased osmotic pressure. This causes an increase in intracellular fluid. The fluid leaves the intravascular space and rehydrates the cells. These solutions also promote waste elimination by the kidneys. |
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