Acid-Base Balance Review for Student Nurses

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From Episode 1 of the Nursing Show

Tip of the Week — Acid Base Balance Review

I'm talking about acid base balance. I know, I know. It strikes fear in everyone's heart. Student nurses and paramedics get acid/base balance equations and concepts thrown at them all of the time and existing RNs should review the underlying causes of acid/base shifts related to their specialties in nursing.

Acid Base Balance Basic Concepts

There are a few basic concepts lying behind acid base balance, and I think at least for myself when I do some of my educational work with EMTs and paramedics in my other side of my medical career, I find that acid base balance, once you get those few key concepts under your belt, tends to be not that hard. So we're going to start off here with an intro to acid base balance, and then in future episodes I'll come back and revisit some of those other parts, and we'll put it all together into a whole and look at acid base balance and some of the things in the nursing field at least that we need to be aware of.

So to start off with, I'm going to look at pH. What does pH mean? How is it defined? And what does it have to do with how the body operates? So we'll do a quick look at pH today, and then we'll touch on some of the other concepts lying behind acid base balance in the future.

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Extra Resource Link

Acidity vs. Alkalinity and pH (link to World Anesthesia Online)

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Segment Transcript with Links in PDF

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