09.01 Acute Renal Failure Overview for CCRN Review
Included In This Lesson
Outline
Nursing Points
General
- Acute renal failure
- Urinary output is less than 400cc in 24hrs
- Pre-renal Stage
- Decreases in urinary output
- This is caused by a decreased blood supply in kidney
- Congestive heart failure (CHF)
- Low blood pressure (BP)
- This is caused by a decreased blood supply in kidney
- Kidneys are still healthy but can progress to renal failure
- Decreases in urinary output
- Renal Stage
- Kidney damage has occurred
- Parenchymal tissue (damage to organ tissue)
- Nephrons/tubules
- Acute tubular nephrosis
- Kidney damage has occurred
CCRN Review (Critical Care Certification Review)
This course is a review for the CCRN exam. Experienced critical care nurses that meet the testing criteria can use this course to review key concepts for their CCRN exam, which is a certification for critical care nurses. Criteria to test includes having 1,750 hours in direct bedside care of acutely and/or critically ill patients during the last 2 years (prior to the exam). 875 hours need to be worked in the year prior to your application.