NUR 2063 FLUID DISTRIBUTION REVIEW

NUR 2063 FLUID DISTRIBUTION REVIEW What is osmosis? The shifting of water from one fluid compartment to another via a semi-permeable membrane. Water will always want to move from an area with a lesser concentration of solutes to an area with a greater concentration of solutes. "Concentration calls!" What is osmolality? A measurement of how concentrated a compartment is (the proportion of solutes-to-water that is in a compartment's fluid). Clinically we can measure the solute concen...