 Welcome to nursing school explained in this video in the care plan help series where we analyze different lab results and look at nursing considerations that you can use for writing those care plans and analyzing the specific patient that you encountered in clinical and Showing your professors that you're able to apply your theoretical knowledge to that patient that you encountered in clinical The lab value we'll be looking at today is calcium So calcium is Has always to do with muscle contraction and that always applies to blood pressure and heart rate So we always want to assess those first and see if they're within or outside normal limits We also want to assess any kind that has to do with muscle contraction So for muscle twitching any kind of cramps and their bowel sounds because remember the bowel consists of smooth muscle and Might have be affected by imbalances and calcium Then we want to assess the patient's deep tendon reflexes Shrouds against your soul sign and check my videos if you need to review those skills and Then calcium is regulated by the parathyroid gland And so we if there's any kind of imbalances with disease there or the patient had the thyroid removed Whether recently or in the past it might put them at risk for calcium imbalances So this is something that you always need to look into Any history of cancer also puts the patient at risk for calcium imbalances as well as to renal disorders and or Dialysis because that can just throw off any kind of electrolytes And so then this example that I've been using for this care plan How to do your series is this 45 year old female status post colostastectomy with the past medical history of diabetes Hyperlipidemia and a smoker so really nothing in this case an area here particularly applies to calcium imbalances If this particular patient were to have a calcium imbalance, then we would just go ahead and treat that imbalances as is indicated for hypo or hyperglycemia and please check out my other video about Calcium imbalances we're going to the details of that Then also following this video we're going to have more videos about in the care plan help series with other lab results and Relate those to nursing considerations. So make sure that you stay tuned for those. Thanks for watching