Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
LTC Nursing Assistant Trainer, April 9, 2009
Dehydration is the loss of at least 1% of body weight as a result of fluid loss. Dehydration is a much greater problem than malnutrition in long-term care, and its symptoms are often atypical and easily mistaken for other illnesses of delirium.
Add the following appropriate nursing interventions to the plan of care pending more specific dietitian recommendations:
- Provide extra fluid with meals, including juice, soup, ice cream and sherbet, gelatin, water on trays.
- Serve beverages at activities.
- All staff should encourage at least 60 ml of fluid of the resident’s choice upon entering each resident’s room.
- Encourage the resident to consume at least 180 ml with medications. Residents who limit water intake may accept sugar-free juices during medication pass.
- Offer Popsicles between meals.
- Pass juice or fluid cart at least twice a day.
- Record accurate I & O. Cumulate each shift. Evaluate daily compared with resident’s minimum fluid requirements.
This is an excerpt from HCPro’s book, The Long-Term Care Legal Desk Reference.
Comments
0 comments on “Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions ”
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- CMS seeks comment on quality measures
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Clearing up the confusion: CPT codes 76376 and 76377
- CMS creates web portal for questions about 1135 waivers, PHE
- E-mailed
-
- Coronavirus vaccination: 4 best practices for communicating with patients
- Grievances, Complaints, and Patients’ Rights
- Including 46600 in E/M leveling systems
- How to get reimbursed for restorative nursing
- Five keys to creating a CHF disease management program
- Fetal non-stress tests represent important part of maternal and fetal health
- Coding, billing, and documentation tips for teaching physicians, interns, residents, and students
- Coding tip: Know how to correctly code each procedure an otolaryngologist can perform on turbinates
- Coding Clinic reiterates guidelines for provider documentation
- CMS creates web portal for questions about 1135 waivers, PHE
- Searched