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What is a pre-dialysis evaluation? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1) Review of the
patient's health.
2) Compares current health status to previous evaluations.
Why is pre-dialysis evaluations needed? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1) To determine
if the patient is stable to receive treatment.
2) Determine if there has been a change in health status.
,3) Provides a baseline date to plan for a safe treatment.
Describe Universal precautions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Steps we take with all
patient contact to decrease the risk of spreading infection to protect our
patient and ourselves.
What are the 3 C's? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1) Condition (objective)
2) Complaints (subjective)
3) Changes (objective)
What should you look for with:
Ambulation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Gait changes, use of assistive devices, ROM,
energy level.
What should you look for with:
Mental status and mood - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A&O x 3, any changes in usual
mood
,(Alert and orientation)
Person, place, time (situation) A&Ox4
What should you look for with:
Skin - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Color, integrity, temperature, edema
What should you look for with:
Vital signs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Weight, BP, HR, respiration's, temperature
What is EDW?
Estimated Dry weight - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A patient's wt with excess fluid
removed
When is a RN required to assess a pre-treatment wt? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔If
the patient pre-treatment wt is >4 kg above EDW.
What does a blood pressure measure? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Measurement of
the pressure of force of blood against the walls of the arteries.
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, When do you report a blood pressure to the RN? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔SBP
<100 or > 180
DBP> 100
When do you report a heart rate to a RN? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔New onset of
HR <60 or >100
or a irregular beat
When do you report a respiratory rate to the Rn? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
respiratory rate of > 24 breaths per minute
True or False
Does a dialysis patient maintain an average temperature? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔False!
When do you report a temperature to the RN? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Temperature < 96 & > or = to 100 degrees
Name some important complaints you need to report to the RN?