Electrolyte Lab Values | Top Tested & Top Missed Questions on NCLEX

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Today’s video is all about electrolyte NCLEX lab values for Nursing Students and NCLEX Review.

As an essential part of the body, electrolytes help with muscle contraction, nerve function, blood pressure regulation, and much more. An imbalance of electrolytes can lead to serious health conditions affecting these organs.

Memorizing lab values is crucial for passing exit exams, electrolyte lab values can be especially challenging. In this video, we’ve got plenty of memorization tricks for remembering electrolyte lab values.

00:00 Introduction
01:17 Potassium
03:04 Treating High Potassium
05:14 Giving IV Potassium
06:29 Lowering High Potassium
08:41 Treating High Potassium - NCLEX Questions
11:45 Lowering High Potassium - NCLEX Question
12:20 Calcium
13:46 Conclusion

#NCLEX #Electrolytes

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[Ruffles]

Okay thank you for all you do! I test in about a month & knew that I needed to get my labs down first

[wajackoyah]

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[rolandotuliao]

hi Mark, how can we avail a copy either a leaflet or a summarized book of all the topic here?Thank you and more power..

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[abibing-]

Hello I saw a video (Electrolyte practice test question) in my simple nursing account it says: Top 3 signs of dehydration is Hypotension, Weak pulses and high lab values. Dehydration shows weak pulses?? I SEARCHED UP EVERYTHING ON GOOGLE IT SAYS RAPID HEARTBEAT High heart rate but low blood pressure. IDK, I got confused. I swear simple nursing will not have a mistake for a common sign and symptoms :(

[tsbohnv]

Just printed fluid & electrolyte cheat sheet showing potassium range of 3.0 to 3.5, not 3.5 to 5.0 mEq/L. Do you know if the video or the Simple Nursing cheat sheet is correct?

[kellymceachern]

4:15 we avoid eating turtles too, huh? lolll

[jayalitin]

Isn't Hyperkalemia has ST depression on EKG?

[miraculousgaming]

I thought it was 10 mea is max for potassium?

[dirk]

Becoming rosy doesn't mean you've consumed salt at all...it is a reflex too much like goosebumps that may last for a few minutes or comes and goes with heat and humidity. So body temperature and a persons reflex called a flush decides if you will become rosy or not...it is more often encountered with nutritional disorders too, low caloric intake too...and the O so wonderful weather...extremes and encoutering those extremes too can make a person blush, flush or become rosy... Yah, I understand what you mean, you're drawing an analogy...but do be aware, people flush.

[dirk]

If aldosterone is too a weightloss hormone, then what happens when you block it to retain water...you also decrease fat metabolism. Remember, the body will always try to washout excess fat, because fat retains water...if fat retains water and aldosterone has the capacity to remove that water...then you develop resistant fat cells? I'm just trying to rationalize a dead horse.

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