00:01
In this question, you have the nurse is completed an admission assessment of an adolescent client who is underweight and admitted to a psychiatric unit with diagnosis of depression.
00:20
Now, which finally required notification to the health care provider and a series of reference range operating provided? so looking through all the vital signs and also all the blockworks, it looks like the one that required notification is the potassium level.
01:07
The potassium level is only 2 .9 m .eq per liter.
01:24
Now, we know the reference range is usually between 3 .5 to 5 millieq per liter.
01:37
So a 2 .9 is obviously critically low compared to the range.
01:47
So this actually is considered as hypoglymia.
02:00
So the very low level of potassium can lead to severe complications such as cardiac arithmic muscle weakness and other life -threatening conditions.
02:12
So this is why the immediate attention is necessary to address the underlying costs.
02:16
And also the potassium level need to be corrected right away...