Hi to allNurses! Nursing is really a difficult job especially when you are assessing your client then doing something if you assessed something is wrong. I'm just a newly grad and newly licenced nurse and I also got my first job in a tertiary hospital. Yesterday I was handling a paediatric client age of 6 with upper respiratory tract infection and was receiving a fluid replacement infusion which is hypertonic. When I took her BP, I got 120/90. So I immediately slow her infusion and listen for any adventitious breath sounds.
Since I am new, my initial action is to consult this to my superiors but I was shocked when they told me that "it is ok and there's nothing to be alarm of".
Do you think it is still normal considering the client is receiving a hypertonic solution? Thanks in advance:D
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Hi to allNurses! Nursing is really a difficult job especially when you are assessing your client then doing something if you assessed something is wrong. I'm just a newly grad and newly licenced nurse and I also got my first job in a tertiary hospital. Yesterday I was handling a paediatric client age of 6 with upper respiratory tract infection and was receiving a fluid replacement infusion which is hypertonic. When I took her BP, I got 120/90. So I immediately slow her infusion and listen for any adventitious breath sounds.
Since I am new, my initial action is to consult this to my superiors but I was shocked when they told me that "it is ok and there's nothing to be alarm of".
Do you think it is still normal considering the client is receiving a hypertonic solution? Thanks in advance:D