Verified/ latest Update (2024/2025)
What does INS stand for? - ✔️✔️Infusion Nurses Society
What does "Standard of Care" focus on? - ✔️✔️The results or outcomes of care and focus on the
patient.
What does "Standard of Nursing Paractice" mean? - ✔️✔️nursing accountability and framework for
evaluating professional competency.
evidence-based practice - ✔️✔️problem solving approach to making clinical decisions using the
best evidence available
Four elements of malpractice - ✔️✔️duty, breach of duty, causation, and injury
2021 National Safety Goals for Hospitals - ✔️✔️1. Identify Patients correctly
2. Improve staff communication
3. Use medications safely
4. Use alarms safely
5. Prevent infection
6. Identify patient safety risks
7. Prevent mistakes in surgery
Autonomy - ✔️✔️the right to self-determination or personal independence
Beneficience - ✔️✔️Doing good for the patient
Nonmaleficence - ✔️✔️Doing no harm to the patient
veracity - ✔️✔️truthfulness
, fidelity - ✔️✔️the obligation to be faithful to an agreement and responsibility; to keep promises
Justice - ✔️✔️obligation to be fair to all people
Three anti- septics for IV insertion - ✔️✔️1. Chlorhexidine
2. Povidone Iodine
3. 70% alcohol
Isotonic Solutions - ✔️✔️0.9 sodium cholride this is normal saline lactated ringers solution
Hypotonic Solutions - ✔️✔️the #of he #of particles in a solution on one side of a membrane is less
than the # of particles in a solution on the other side of the membrane *cells swell*
0.45% sodium chloride, 0.33% sodium chloride, 2.5% dextrose in water
Hypertonic Solutions - ✔️✔️• Used to treat situations of hyponatremia and hypovolemia.
• Administer slowly; can cause intravascular volume overload; carefully monitor serum sodium, lung
sounds, and blood pressure.
Solutions.
• Dextrose 5% in 0.45% or half-strength NaCl (normal saline).
• Dextrose 5% in 0.9% NaCl (normal saline).
• Dextrose 5% in Lactated Ringer's.
Fluid Volume Deficit - ✔️✔️hypovolemia, dehydration, diarrhea, DI.
• S/s: ^HR, hypotension, dysrhythmias, ^RR, dyspnea, lethargic, weakness, decreased UO, tenting,
constipation
• Rx: IV fluids, oral fluids, blood products
Fluid Volume Excess - ✔️✔️hypervolemia: water intoxication d/t excessive Na intake, IVF,CRF, CHF,
SIADH,
• S/s: ^HR, ^BP, distended neck veins, dysrthymias, ^RR, altered LOC, ^UO, pitting edema, diarrhea,
• Rx: diuretics, restrict fluid/Na, monitor I&O, monitor daily weight, elevate head of bed