purple12

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1. OTC med guidelines

   purple12 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello, I've started volunteering at small clinic at the Christian Aid center. It's tiny clinic with 1-2 nurses. At this point in time they do not have an MD. I'm curious if anyone knows where I can find guidelines regarding providing OTC medications...

2. Insulin

   purple12 replied to purple12's topic in Endocrine

   Thank-you for your responses. This really helped to clear things up for me. I'm a 1st year nursing student. I asked my teacher to explain this to me and I just couldn't wrap my brain around her explanation. :)

3. Insulin

   purple12 posted a topic in Endocrine

   Could someone please help me understand what the U in U100 insulin stands for? On a website I found it states that U100 means that there are 100 units of insulin per mL of liquid. Would that mean that a U40 syringe only has 40 units of insulin per mL...

4. Fluid volume excess priority focused assessment

   purple12 posted a topic in Student Assist

   For my patient care packet my patient's priority problem is fluid volume excess. I'm suppose to include what my priority focused assessment is for this problem. I believe it would be cardiovascular and that I would assess the blood pressure, heart ra...