With its concise, user-friendly outline format, this handy pocket guide is your indispensable consultant to fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base-related patient care. You'll discover pathophysiology, assessment, diagnostic tests, collaborative management, and nursing diagnoses and interventions reviewed in a logical, consistent, and easy-to-read manner.
• Helps you identify your patient's specific imbalance and understand the required nursing care
• Allows you to look up a diagnosis and learn what fluid, electrolyte, or acid-base disturbances are associated with that diagnosis
• Includes patient-family teaching guidelines with clear instructions regarding care for the condition
• Provides pediatric and geriatric information to help you understand the variations involved with these special patient populations
• Compares different types of parenteral and enteral feedings, along with nursing implications
• Contains expanded and updated relevant IV therapy and pharmacology content
• Features updated content throughout with current literature and research findings, including the most current blood pressure guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services