a pediatric nurse is providing care for a 7-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with glomerulonephritis. in addition to monitoring this child's blood work closely, what other assessment should prioritized in order to gauge the progression of his disease?

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The 7-year-old boy has been diagnosed with glomerulonephritis. in addition to monitoring this child's blood work closely his daily weight need to be assessed.

Weight is the most reliable indicator of fluid intake or output and the assessment of insensible losses in a critically sick patient with renal illness. Accurate intake and output measurements can be challenging. Daily weights would therefore take precedence over respiratory auscultation and apical pulse rate, even if each should be done due to their importance for glomerulonephritis consequences. Skin turgor measurement is not a reliable indicator of fluid balance.

In order to maintain healthy levels of electrolytes (salts in solution) in all of the body's fluids, fluid balance, a component of homeostasis, requires that the amount of water in the organism be managed by osmoregulation and behavior.

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