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Sickle cell anemia is a severe hemolytic anemia resulting from the inheritance of the sickle hemoglobin (HbS) gene, which causes a defective hemoglobin molecule. Learn the ways on how to intervene as a nurse and manage patients with sickle cell anemia.

Nursing assessment is important in the whole nursing process. This can be called the "base or foundation" of the nursing process. With a weak and incorrect nursing assessment, you might create also an incorrect nursing diagnosis and plans therefore creating wrong interventions and evaluation. To prevent those kind of scenarios, we have created a cheat sheet on which you can print or copy to be used during your assessment.

Type III antiarrhythmic: Acts directly on cardiac cell membrane; prolongs repolarization and refractory period; increases ventricular fibrillation threshold; acts on peripheral smooth muscle to decrease peripheral resistance