Exam 20: Fluids and Electrolytes

What should the nurse focus on when creating a nursing care plan for a patient with metabolic acidosis?

When a patient takes substances into the body,they first enter the extracellular compartment.What must the substances enter to carry out their function?

The nurse weighs a patient at the same time of day with the same scale and same clothing.What is this a simple and accurate method of determining?

What is the method by which inhaled oxygen is moved into the intravascular compartment called?

What are the three buffer systems of the body? (Select all that apply.)

When reading the laboratory report of a patient with excessive diarrhea,the nurse notes that the pH is 7.10,and the PaCO? and the PaO? are normal.What should the nurse recognize as this patient's state from this information alone?

A child has been having an asthma attack for the last 8 hours.Because of the child's inability to exhale effectively,the nurse assesses for respiratory __________.

The nurse expects an adult with normal kidney function to void a minimum of ____ mL of urine in 4 hours.

Sodium is the most abundant electrolyte in the body.The location of electrolytes is important for maintaining homeostasis.Sodium is the major electrolyte in which fluid compartment?