NUR 2063 FLUID DISTRIBUTION REVIEW
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NUR 2063 FLUID DISTRIBUTION REVIEW
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NUR 2063 FLUID DISTRIBUTION REVIEW 
 
What is osmosis? 
The shifting of water from one fluid compartment to another via a semi-permeable membrane. Water will always want to move from an area with a lesser concentration of solutes to an area with a greater concentration of solutes. "Concentration calls!" 
 
What is osmolality? 
A measurement of how concentrated a compartment is (the proportion of solutes-to-water that is in a compartment's fluid). 
 
Clinically we can measure the solute concen...
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