Renal Failure Bullet Notes

Oligura– urine output less than 400ml/day Anuria– Urine output less than 50ml/day Higher specific gravity= MORE concentrated urine Lower specific gravity= Dilute- more ‘watery’ Acute Renal Failure– Reversable- Sudden and almost complete loss of kidney fxn over hours to days. Increase in

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47 Helpful Tips on How to answer (Select-All-That-Apply) SATA NCLEX Questions

1. CERVICAL CA Risk Factors: • African- American/ Native women • Behavior (Sexual promiscuity) • Chronic instrumentation of cervix • Disease –STD • Early age of Sex • High Parity • Poor Hygiene • Low economic status • Multiple sexual partners • Partner with Prostate CA Sx: • Post-coital bleeding • Painful sex • Menstrual irregularities 2. OVARIAN

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Pediatric Nursing NCLEX Bullets Part 1

A child with HIV-positive blood should receive inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) rather than oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) immunization. To achieve postural drainage in an infant, place a pillow on the nurse’s lap and lay the infant across it. A child with cystic

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NCLEX and Nursing Board Exam Fundamentals of Nursing Bullets

A blood pressure cuff that’s too narrow can cause a falsely elevated blood pressure reading. When preparing a single injection for a patient who takes regular and neutral protein Hagedorn insulin, the nurse should draw the regular insulin into the syringe first

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NCLEX and Nursing Board Exam Maternal and Child Nursing Bullets

Unlike false labor, true labor produces regular rhythmic contractions, abdominal discomfort, progressive descent of the fetus, bloody show, and progressive effacement and dilation of the cervix. To help a mother break the suction of her breast-feeding infant, the nurse should teach her

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NCLEX and Nursing Board Exam Psychiatric Nursing Bullets

According to Kübler-Ross, the five stages of death and dying are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Flight of ideas is an alteration in thought processes that’s characterized by skipping from one topic to another, unrelated topic. La belle indifférence is the

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