Exam 14: Fluids and Electrolytes

The nurse assesses that the patient with congestive heart failure who is being treated with a diuretic has lost 4.4 pounds in 1 day.This weight loss is equivalent to the loss of ____________________ of fluid.

The nurse assesses deep-rapid respirations in a patient with metabolic acidosis to be an indicator of the homeostatic system at work to reduce the ____________________ level.

A patient has renal damage because of diabetes,which places the patient at risk for:

When the water absorption in the renal tubules becomes greater than normal,the nurse anticipates that the urine will become:

The nurse clarifies that fluid balance is mainly monitored in the body by which two systems?

A small child is hospitalized with severe metabolic acidosis after ingesting a whole bottle of baby aspirin approximately 8 hours earlier.The emphasis of the nursing care for this patient is reassuring the patient and:

The patient's intravenous (IV)injection has been infusing at a very high rate,and now the patient appears to be in fluid volume overload,as indicated by:

The nurse instructs that the healthy kidney adjusts the volume and composition of the filtrate that prevents excessive fluid loss by:

Both the intracellular and extracellular fluids are made up of many different electrolytes,but the most abundant intracellular positively charged electrolyte is:

When the nurse hangs an IV bag with Na?,K?,and Cl?,he or she is aware that ________ are being administered.