Acute care is about care for a patient who is having surgery. This is the only subject that has a clinical component this semester which is 80 hours (2 weeks). Next semester it is something like 400 hours.
Today's lectures:
Acute Renal Failure (online)
Introduction to Pharmacology and Routes of Administration (online)
Perioperative and Post-operative Nursing (uni)
Videos (from uni website):
• Handwashing
• Administering oral medications
• Administering an intramuscular injection
• Preparing medications from ampoules (viles)
Reading:
Observation and monitoring skills:
• Pulse recording
• Blood pressure recording
• Cardiac monitoring
• Recording ECG
• Assessment of level of consciousness
• Temperature recording
• Use of electronic thermometers
• Cooling the patient
• Warming the patient
• Weighing the patient
• Blood glucose monitoring
• Observing limb perfusion, movement and sensation
• Pain assessment
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