For most patients who cannot attain an adequate oral intake from food, oral nutritional supplements, or who cannot eat and drink safely, they may be given proper nutrition via nasogastric tube feeding. The goal of this technique is to improve every patient’s nutritional intake and maintain their nutritional status. Nasogastric tube or NG tube is used in patients suffering from dysphagia due toContinueContinue reading “Nasogastric Intubation”
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Generic Drug Name Stems Cheat Sheet
If you are studying nursing pharmacology, a great way of understanding and memorizing the use and function of medication is to familiarize yourself with its generic name stem. Usually, drugs of the same therapeutic class are given names with the same stem. These stems are mostly placed word-finally (suffix), but in some cases, word-initial (prefix) stems are alsoContinueContinue reading “Generic Drug Name Stems Cheat Sheet”
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