Question

Week 3 Akana/Granger Pre-Work

Akana – VSIM

1. 1 Medication ALT – Assigned by clinical instructor

2. What are nutritional implications, key assessment findings, and nursing interventions for a patient with hypokalemia?

3. What are the signs and symptoms of digoxin toxicity? How would the nurse assess for these symptoms? In your response, be sure to include specific body systems.

4. What nursing interventions should be implemented for a patient with heart failure? What education needs to be given to patients with heart failure?

Granger – iHuman

1. 1 Medication ALT – Assigned by clinical instructor

Your patient is a 69-year-old male who was admitted to the medical unit from his cardiologist’s office for heart failure exacerbation.

2. What are your primary concerns for this patient, what assessments and interventions would be associated with your concerns, and why?

3. What do you anticipate the patient’s home medications prior to admission might be and why?

4. What medications do you anticipate the health care provider would prescribe while the patient is in the hospital and why?

Answer 1

Question no 1

In our Human body the blood level of potassium when stopped below the normal level that is below 3.5 new/ l this is considered as hypokalemia. The hypokalemia condition can cause problem like fatigue, as well as muscle cramps and also abnormal heart rhythms in the individual .Low potassium that is hypokalemia can be due to an underlying disease condition or can be due to inadequate dietary intake by the individual . The condition like , vomiting,as well as diarrhoea and , medication side effects in the individual will cause hypokalemia

ASSESSMENT FINDINGS

Clinical signs of hypokalemia include the muscle weakness as well as , cramping in the individual

There can be occurrence of fasciculations as well as paralytic ileus in the individual.

hypoventilation, as well as hypotension can be evidently seen in the individual if hypokalemia is severe . ECG are also present in the individual with the changes that typically include the ST segment sagging as well as , T wave depression, and also the U wave elevation.

Intervention for hypokalemia

the client has to be put on a high-potassium diet to elevate the potassium level . If the increase in the dietary potassium of the individual is not sufficient the it has to be to treated by providing with oral potassium supplements to the individual. An individual who is not able to take oral supplements should be given I.V. potassium replacement therapy.