Nurseslabs

The major goals for the patient undergoing total parental nutrition may include improvement of nutritional status, maintaining fluid balance, and absence of complications.

Therapeutic goals for a client who has nearly drowned include providing adequate oxygenation, maintaining a patent airway, maintaining cerebral perfusion, continuous monitoring, providing rewarming methods, and absence of complications.

Infants who fail to gain weight and who shows signs of delayed development are classified as failure-to-thrive infants.

Mechanical ventilation can partially or fully replace spontaneous breathing. Its main purpose is to improved gas exchange and decreased work of breathing by delivering...

The most common facial malformations, cleft lip and cleft palate, occur either alone or in combination. Description Although a cleft lip and a cleft palate...