She has had an IV cannula inserted in her left antecubital fossa. She has IV therapy, Normal Saline, commenced at 40ml per hour, (0.9% Sodium Chloride Solution). She has been started on IV antibiotics. She is incontinent of urine, and seems to be unsteady on her feet. You sponge her in bed.
A young mother is in intensive care after having a rare but serious reaction to a friend's prescription antibiotics that caused her to "burn" from the inside out. Yassmeen Castanada, 19, wasn't feeling well on Thanksgiving, so she took a pill that her friend had left over from a previous illness. Soon, Castanada's eyes, nose and throat began to burn, and she was rushed to the emergency room, her mother, Laura Corona, told ABC News. Her body erupted in blisters over the next few days, Corona said. She had to be sedated and placed on a ventilator.
Tori Rivers is a ten-year-old female, admitted for severe right lower quadrant pain and fever. A CT scan confirmed appendicitis. She is one day post-op. She is allowed out of bed to the chair. When getting out of bed, she walks bent over holding her incision and grits her teeth as she sits down.
Because Arabella is now in the Fetus stage rapid changes were occurring throughout the following months Arabella mother felt her move for the first time at four months and it would feel like a punch and kick inside her mother’s stomach. The brain also becomes increasingly sophisticated during this stage, so now Arabellas brain can send messages to her body. Arabella can now also hear sound, her mother talks to her and lets her know that she can’t wait for her arrival. By the eighth month Arabellas mothers body was very tired and ready, Arabella is not 7 ½ lbs. (Feldman, 2001 p. 54) Arabella was full term, fully developed, and ready for birth, her mother’s body released the protein CRH which started the process of birth.
The mother asked the pre-op nurse how long the procedure would take, because she had to tend to another child and would need to leave for a short while. The nurse told her the procedure would take approximately an hour and forty five minutes, which included recovery. The mother handed the nurse her cell phone number and asked to be called if the surgery was shorter than predicted. The mother insisted that she was only gone for two and a half hours, and when she returned to pick up her child, the child had been discharged to the father thirty minutes prior. She became very agitated, and security was called for assistance.
She was discharged 9 days postoperative with a left PICC for IV antibiotics. During this morning assessment I noticed a large ecchymotic area over the right upper arm. PT. claims it was form getting her blood pressure taken so many times. PT.
In the article “Gender Bender by Jill Vollbrecht we learn about a diabetic woman and her hairier problem. Her deep voice, furry arms and her bald spot points to a hormonal imbalance, but a deeper look into her problem reveals an even better explanation to why this is happening. As we read on we learn about Judy, the diabetic patient and her doctor visit. Dr. Vollbrecht seemed to been having a busy day. She had just finished seeing what seemed like a hundred diabetic patients, one after the other.
Along with previous scenario stated, let’s review another case: A phlebotomist from a contracted lab begins his daily rounds of blood collections for the day in a long term care facility. He enters room 201 to draw a 85-year-old woman who was admitted for atrial fibrillation. When he introduces himself and asks for consent to draw her blood, she shouts, "No!" and asks you to leave and not come back. The patient made it very clear that she did not want the phlebotomist to draw her blood (Finnegan, 2013).This same phlebotomist has drawn her for several days for a Prothrombin Time (PT) and Activated Thromboplastic Time (aPTT) without incident, so he reports this situation to the nurse.
My family began arriving a little at a time. My sisters and mother soon made their way to the hospital. I can only imagine what they had been told. The outlook wasn't great for a 100% recovery, but I never complained. I was in a double room and my roommate, Marie, a heavy girl, had jumped off the roof of her house and shattered her knee.
E) Difficulty swallowing. The ED physician has completed an assessment. Gail is sitting at the bedside while the ED nurse continues to assess Nancy every 15 minutes. 2. Which assessment finding warrants immediate intervention by the nurse?