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What Will It Take? When Will We Act?

AJN Off the Charts

Or failing that, institute a clear requirements process for those who want to purchase assault weapons, much like drivers of large vehicles must have a commercial license, specialized training , and medical clearance and be over the age of 21. Professional and health care organizations unified in call for action.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

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Medications like nitrofurantoin, there’s some risk, but the rationale isn’t just avoid, I think it was avoid with a creatinine clearance of less than 30. Because we really don’t have any evidence that it works in patients who have creatinine clearance below 30. Eric: Is that how I should be using this table?

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

Category: Fundamentals Patients with a tracheostomy tube generally cannot generate sufficient pressure to initiate a strong cough and facilitate airway clearance. In addition to an impaired cough mechanism, immune responses are often blunted.

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Critical Care Nursing

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Category: Critical Care Nursing Lactate clearance has been shown to be equivalent to central venous oxygen saturation as an endpoint of early septic shock resuscitation. Lactate clearance measurements are the preferred endpoint of resuscitation.

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

Category: Fundamentals Diuretics can enhance digoxin toxicity by decreasing renal clearance of digoxin and by causing electrolyte changes, including hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia and hypercalcemia (thiazides).

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

Major hepatic clearance is also found with acebutolol, nebivolol, metoprolol and timolol. Category: Fundamentals First-pass liver metabolism is found especially with the highly lipid-soluble compounds, such as propranolol, labetalol and oxprenolol.

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

This causes a reduction of hepatic cholesterol and an increase in clearance of cholesterol from the blood. Category: Fundamentals Ezetimibe acts in the small intestine and inhibits the absorption of cholesterol, leading to decreased delivery of cholesterol to the liver.

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