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Patients with severe acute malnutrition should receive oral rehydration with low-osmolarity ORS instead of the standard rehydration solution for diarrhea, ReSoMal, which does not have sufficient sodium content to replace the losses from cholera. More information is available in WHO’s guidelines for inpatient treatment of severely malnourished infants and children. Breastfed infants should continue to breastfeed. If ORS is not available, provide water, broth, and/or other fluids; avoid fluids high in sugar, such as juice, soft drinks, and sports drinks. Pregnant women Pregnant women with cholera are at a higher risk of fetal loss compared with the general population of pregnant women, and dehydration should be treated promptly. Dehydration can be difficult to assess and may be underestimated during the later stages of pregnancy. Closely monitor the patient’s degree of dehydration, response to treatment, and systolic blood pressure. Assessing patients effectivelyHere's how to do the basic four techniquesWHEN YOU PERFORM a physical assessment, you'll use four techniques: inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Use them in sequence—unless you're performing an abdominal assessment. Palpation and percussion can alter bowel sounds, so you'd inspect, auscultate, percuss, then palpate an abdomen. Inspect each body system using vision, smell, and hearing to assess normal conditions and deviations. Assess for color, size, location, movement, texture, symmetry, odors, and sounds as you assess each body system. Palpation requires you to touch the patient with different parts of your hands, using varying degrees of pressure. Because your hands are your tools, keep your fingernails short and your hands warm. Wear
gloves when palpating mucous membranes or areas in contact with body fluids. Palpate tender areas last. Types of palpationLight palpation
Deep palpation
3. PercussionPercussion involves tapping your fingers or hands quickly and sharply against parts of the patient's body to help you locate organ borders, identify organ shape and position, and determine if an organ is solid or filled with fluid or gas. Types of percussionDirect percussionThis technique reveals tenderness; it's commonly used to assess an adult's sinuses.
Indirect percussionThis technique elicits sounds that give clues to the makeup of the underlying tissue. Here's how to do it:
4. AuscultationAuscultation involves listening for various lung, heart, and bowel sounds with a stethoscope. Getting ready
How to auscultate
Source: Health Assessment made Incredibly Visual!, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007. What is nursing responsibilities in urinary catheterization?Nurses are often responsible for the initiation of catherization procedures for patients within the hospital or community setting. This nursing role requires contemporary information on catheter selection and problem solving in the maintenance of urinary catheters.
Which intervention would the nurse plan to help a client prevent a urinary tract infection?Frequent voiding every 2 to 3 hours to completely empty the bladder is encouraged to prevent bladder distention, lower bacterial urine counts, reduce stasis of the urine, and prevent reinfection.
Can you pee with a catheter in?They can either be inserted through the tube that carries urine out of the bladder (urethral catheter) or through a small opening made in your lower tummy (suprapubic catheter). The catheter usually remains in the bladder, allowing urine to flow through it and into a drainage bag.
How often should Foley care be done?Cleaning the Catheter
Follow these steps two times a day to keep your catheter clean and free of germs that can cause infection: Wash your hands well with soap and water. Be sure to clean between your fingers and under your nails. Change the warm water in your container if you are using a container and not a sink.
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