CHF nursing
The patient is a 82-year-old male who presented to the ED at 5 am for shortness of breath worsening over the past day, PMH includes CHF, HTN, hyperlipidemia, CAD s/p cardiac stents in 2014, DM, osteoarthritis, BPH, depression, CKD st 3
Admitted for CHF exacerbation, pneumonia, acute on chronic renal disease
You receive him on the floor at 11:30 am, he appears to be alert and oriented, but lethargic, states he hasn’t taken any home meds yet today, has not eaten yet either. Lives at ALF, uses walker
In the ED, he received IV furosemide 40mg, 650mg Tylenol, 500mg IV levofloxacin and an albuterol/ipratropium nebulizer treatment
