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  1. Need help making meal Plan for Nutrition Class.

    tmhop replied to daynuhRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    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...

  2. Need help making meal Plan for Nutrition Class.

    tmhop replied to daynuhRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    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/...

  3. Air embolism from PICC line

    tmhop replied to ivstarterRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    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...

  4. chlorahexidine dressing kits

    tmhop replied to IVmama58's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    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...

  5. PICC dilemna

    tmhop replied to sweetsounds's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    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...

  6. Potassium Administration

    tmhop replied to PrairieRose's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    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...

  7. Phlebotomy thru port?

    tmhop replied to rusty55's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

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