Things to Consider Keep in mind that the school's menu is not near as healthy as some may claim and what you pack will be healthier. Do...
Choose Healthy Diets And Stay Healthy
People engage in diets for the purpose of losing weight. What they don't realize are the other benefits that arise upon engaging in heal...
Assessment
Height and weight are routinely measured for most patients during admission to a health care facility
Height and weight are routinely measured for most patients during admission to a health care facility
Height and weight are routinely measured for most patients during admission to a health care facility. An accurate record of the patient'...
Identifying Respiratory Patterns
The chart below shows several common types of respiratory patterns and their possible causes. It's important to assess the patient for t...
Assessment Techniques
To perform physical assessment, a nurse uses four basic techniques: inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Performing these te...
Physical Assessment
PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT Nurses perform a complete physical assessment when the patient is admitted to the facility and partial reassessments a...
Skin Medications
Topical drugs are applied directly to the skin surface. They include lotions, pastes, ointments, creams, powders, shampoos, patches, and aer...
Eye Medications
Eye medications—drops, ointments, and disks—serve diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. During an eye examination, eyedrops can be used t...
How to Insert and Remove an Eye Medication Disk
Small and flexible, an oval eye medication disk consists of three layers: two soft outer layers and a middle layer that contains the medicat...
Handheld Oropharyngeal Inhalers
Handheld inhalers include the metered dose inhaler (or nebulizer), the turbo-inhaler, and the nasal inhaler. These devices deliver topical m...
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