Hydration

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9. Patient and caregiver teaching

Document each teaching point with topic, method, audience, and measured mastery (teach-back percentage or return-demonstration result), per Foundations — Teach-back and return demonstration.

  • The ordered fluid plan — the restriction amount and how to track it, or the encouragement target and how to meet it.
  • Recognizing dehydration (dry mouth, dizziness, dark urine) and overload (swelling, weight gain, breathlessness) and whom to call.
  • Intake-and-output tracking and daily-weight monitoring (technique in Vital Signs).
  • The effects of medications, heat, and illness on fluid needs and how to adjust within the plan.
  • Safe-swallowing-conscious hydration strategies when intake is limited by swallowing (mechanics in Taste / Swallowing).
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