Question

12) 4 (4 oz.) cup of gelatin = ml. 13) ½ (6 oz.) bowl of soup = 90 240 ml. 14) % (8 oz.) cup of water = ml. Clinical situations. Describe how a nursing assistant should react to the following situations. 1) Your patient is on I&O and you picked up the lunch tray. 2) You serve a meal tray to a blind person who is able to feed himself. Use imaginary lock asaguidenes Your patient's chart'has an order to force fluids. 3) 4) The patient receiv IV has 25 ml. of fluid left in the bag. Re port to the nurse g an immedia 5) Your patient is on a strict kosher diet and the tray has a shrimp salad as an entrée. Apologize to-the patien and changs he tray 6) Your patient is on I&Ö and you find a container of milk one-third full when you pick up the trays. 7) Your patient is on I&O and has perspired so much during the night that you had to change the sheets and pillowcase. 52 Revised October 29, 2010

These questions are for CNAs please help.

Answer 1

I & O is the intake and out put measurements that are monitored for a client. It is very important to record intake and output of fluids in almost all critically ill patients.

This fluid intake is recorded through parenteral administrations,mouth, feeding tubes and intravenous catheters.Out put is recorded through emesis, urine, vomiting, Blood or drainages, perspiration.

There are some nursing actions and care to be followed on such type of clinically ill clients. For the question below my answer is

1. Patient is on I and O and you picked up the lunch tray.

Actually when the patient is on I and O chart, It is very important to measure the fluids strictly with out any missing through out the 24 Hrs. time frame.

So it is very important to calculate the fluids that were taken during, in between and after the meals.So as a Certified Nurse Assistant you must check whether you had carried all the fluids water or juice in the calibrated drinking glasses.