Fluids and electrolytes balance: fluid volume imbalances
Provides nursing students, new nurses, and others with the fundamental information they need to begin building their understanding of the role fluid volume and electrolytes play in the health of a body.
Infection Control in Healthcare: Precautions
Overview: Precautions have been developed by OSHA and the CDC to help prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases. It is essential that all healthcare professionals be aware of and abide by these precautions. ..
Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications
Over 90% of hospital patients receive intravenous therapy, including medication, nutrition, electrolytes, and blood. These life-giving fluids are administered through an I.V. and can mean the difference between life and ..
Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation
Over 90% of hospital patients receive intravenous therapy, including medication, nutrition, electrolytes, and blood. These life-giving fluids are administered through an I.V. and can mean the difference between life and ..
Nursing process and critical thinking: critical thinking in the nursing process
Presents beginning level concepts of critical thinking and their relationship to the nursing process. Delineates what critical thinking is and what it is not. Demonstrates the process of the critical examination of data ..
Obstetrical Nursing: Assisted Delivery and Cesarean Section
Some women experience no problem giving birth to their babies. Others have difficulty and need assistance. Common procedures used to assist a baby's birth include forceps delivery, vacuum extraction and cesarean section...
Obstetrical Nursing: Caring for the Antepartum Patient
This program focuses on the physiological and emotional changes a woman goes through during pregnancy, and includes information that can assist the nurse in caring and reassuring her pregnant patients. Patient history an..
Obstetrical Nursing: Caring for the Postpartum Patient
During the postpartum period of care, the patient may require a notable amount of physical and psychological care. This course focuses on the physiological, psychological and emotional changes a woman goes through during..
Obstetrical Nursing: Complications of Pregnancy
While most women have healthy, straightforward pregnancies, some will experience significant complications. This program provides an overview of some of the more common complications of pregnancy and offers information a..
Obstetrical Nursing: Electronic Fetal Monitoring
This program has been revised to show updated examples of monitoring strips, and clarify terms and nursing practices. OVERVIEW While most births occur naturally and without complication, some do not. The labor and delive..