Nursing: A
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- Abortion care in Colombia from the nursing side: rights and routes, care during and after, and post-abortion contraceptionMaternal and child nursing · Safe practice
- Acute kidney injury: urine output, fluid balance, potassium and kidney-harming medicinesMedical–surgical nursing · Assessment
- Acute malnutrition in children under five: detection, the appetite test and follow-up (Res. 2350 de 2020)Paediatric nursing · Assessment
- Acute pancreatitis: pain, nothing by mouth, fluids and watching for complicationsMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- Acute spinal cord injury in the ICU: spinal precautions, log roll, breathing, neurogenic shock and autonomic dysreflexiaCritical care · Safe practice
- Acute stroke: recognition, the first hours, swallow screening, positioning and neuro checksMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- Adrenal disorders and long-term corticosteroids: Addison, Cushing, crisis signs and steroid teachingMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- Adverse events: reporting, analysis and a just culturePatient safety · Safe practice
- After heart surgery in the ICU: bleeding, tamponade, rewarming, pacing wires and chest drainsCritical care · Safe practice
- After thyroid or parathyroid surgery: airway, bleeding, voice and the signs of low calciumMedical–surgical nursing · Assessment
- Agitation and aggression: early warning signs, verbal de-escalation and the team responseMental health and psychiatric nursing · Safe practice
- AIEPI: the integrated strategy for childhood illness in Colombia and the nurse's rolePaediatric nursing · Fundamental
- Airway clearance: incentive spirometry, deep breathing, coughing and oscillating devicesProcedures · Procedure
- Airway suctioning: oral, nasal and artificial airwaysProcedures · Procedure
- Alcohol withdrawal: CIWA-Ar monitoring, seizure and delirium precautions and thiamine before glucoseMental health and psychiatric nursing · Assessment
- Allergy history, latex safety and anaphylaxis on the ward: the first nursing responseMedical–surgical nursing · Assessment
- Amputation: stump care, positioning against contractures, phantom pain and getting ready for a prosthesisMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- Analgesia first, then light sedation: RASS and SAS, sedation goals and the daily awakeningCritical care · Assessment
- Antidepressants: the delayed effect, early suicide risk, serotonin syndrome and the MAOI dietMental health and psychiatric nursing · Safe practice
- Antipsychotics: extrapyramidal effects and the AIMS, NMS, metabolic monitoring and clozapine safetyMental health and psychiatric nursing · Safe practice
- Anxiety and panic: levels of anxiety and the nursing response at each levelMental health and psychiatric nursing · Safe practice
- Anxiolytics and sleep medicines: sedation, falls, dependence and withdrawalMental health and psychiatric nursing · Safe practice
- Arterial blood gases: the Allen test, drawing the sample and reading it step by stepCritical care · Assessment
- Arterial line: setting up, levelling and zeroing the transducer, the waveform, sampling and complicationsCritical care · Procedure
- Arthritis and lupus: joint protection, fatigue, morning stiffness and checks for medicines that suppress immunityMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- Assessing dehydration in a child with diarrhoea or vomiting, including intake and outputPaediatric nursing · Assessment
- Assigning patients and setting priorities across several patientsCare management · Safe practice
- Assisting endotracheal intubation: preparing, rapid sequence from the nursing side and confirming tube positionCritical care · Procedure
- Assisting paracentesis: before, during and afterMedical–surgical nursing · Procedure
- Assisting thoracentesis and caring for the patient with a pleural effusionMedical–surgical nursing · Procedure
- Asthma in adults: assessing an attack, peak flow, inhaler technique and the action planMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
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