what does sodium do in the body? - ️️EC osmolality
Transmembrane potential
Acid:base balance
Numerous chemical reactions
Downward phase of illness - ️️illness course characterized by rapid or gradual
physical decline accompanied by increasing disability or difficulty in controlling
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what does sodium do in the body? - ✔️✔️EC osmolality
Transmembrane potential
Acid:base balance
Numerous chemical reactions
Downward phase of illness - ✔️✔️illness course characterized by rapid or gradual
physical decline accompanied by increasing disability or difficulty in controlling
symptoms; requires biographic adjustment and alterations in everyday life activities with
each major downward step
stable phase of illness - ✔️✔️ilnesses course and symptoms are under control;
biography and everyday life activities are being managed within limitations of illness;
illness management centred in the home•
acute illness - ✔️✔️A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
chronic illness - ✔️✔️irreversible illness that causes permanent physical impairment
and requires long-term health care
prejectory phase of illness - ✔️✔️genectic factors and lifestyle can put the patient at
risk for developing a disease
trajectory of illness - ✔️✔️pearance of noticeable symptoms; includes period of
diagnostic workup and announcement of diagnosis; may be accompanied by biographic
limbo as person begins to discover and cope with implications of diagnosis•
, unstable phase of illness - ✔️✔️iod of inability to keep symptoms under control or
reactivation of illness; biographic disruption and difficulty in carrying out everyday life
activities; adjustments being made in regimen, with care usually taking place at home
acute phase of illness - ✔️✔️svere and unrelieved symptoms or the development of
illness complications necessitating hospitalization or bed rest to bring illness course
under control; biography and everyday life activities temporarily placed on hold or
drastically cut back
Crisis phase of illness - ✔️✔️critical or life-threatening situation requiring emergency
treatment or care; biography and everyday life activities suspended until the crisis
passes
comeback phase of illness - ✔️✔️gradual return to acceptible way of life within limits
aposed by disability needs
dying phase of illness - ✔️✔️al days or weeks before death; characterized by gradual
or rapid shutting down of body processes, biographic disengagement and closure, and
relinquishment of everyday life interests and activities
IDRAW - ✔️✔️entify the patient, Diagnosis, Recent Changes, Anticipated
Changes,What to watch for
for legal consent to be valid you must have three components: - ✔️✔️disclossure
volunatariness
capacity
three types of consent - ✔️✔️Expressed, implied, informed
complete blood count includes: - ✔️✔️RBC, WBC, and platelets
red blood cell test includes - ✔️✔️hemoglobin and hemeatocrit
differential blood count - ✔️✔️Determines the relative percent of each WBC type. Many
infections cause an increase or decrease in WBC numbers.
PTT test - ✔️✔️Partial Thromboplastin Time; 23 to 32 sec
PT-INR - ✔️✔️prothrombin time/international normalized ratio 09.-1.1 seconds
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