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1. Need help making meal Plan for Nutrition Class.

   tmhop replied to daynuhRN's topic in Student Assist

   Here's a good starting place for foods high in potassium. http://foodshighinpotassium.com/ To keep sodium low, stick to healthy and nonprocessed foods such as fruits, veggies, whole grains. Some ideas for protein sources are meat, beans, greek yogurt...

2. Need help making meal Plan for Nutrition Class.

   tmhop replied to daynuhRN's topic in Student Assist

   Here are some websites that might help. You could enter in the foods and try different things until you find the combination you need to get the right nutriennts. http://www.thedailyplate.com/ http://nutritiondata.self.com/

3. Air embolism from PICC line

   tmhop replied to ivstarterRN's topic in Med-Surg

   The patient could develop air embolism if air entered the catheter. The other possibility is that blood could come out of the catheter that was open. It depends on the differences in pressure, as to whether air would go in, or blood would flow out.

4. chlorahexidine dressing kits

   tmhop replied to IVmama58's topic in Infusion

   Are the nurses using a skin prep? If that isn't allowed to completely dry before putting the dressing on, that could be causing skin irritation as well. Also, are the nurses stretching the dressing when applying it? That can also cause skin irritati...

5. PICC dilemna

   tmhop replied to sweetsounds's topic in Infusion

   A few questions: 1. Why do you have two needleless connectors on? Could you connect the extension tubing directly to the PICC hub, and just have a needleless connector on the extension tubing? The purpose of the needleless connector is to facilitate ...

6. Potassium Administration

   tmhop replied to PrairieRose's topic in Infusion

   Some things that could help to give the potassium as safely as possible: -Use the smallest possible catheter in the largest possible vein. -The more diluted the potassium is, the less irritation will occur. For example, if the potassium is mixed in 1...

7. Phlebotomy thru port?

   tmhop replied to rusty55's topic in Infusion

   The Standards of Practice by INS (Infusion Nurses Society) 66.III.B state that ports should not be used for therapeutic phlebotomy. /Tess M. Hopkins