The nurse is caring for a client admitted to the emergency department after being found lying on the bathroom floor with several empty pill bottles around her. while waiting for a psychiatric consult, the nurse discovers that the client’s boyfriend has recently broken up with her. which response is most likely is to build and maintain a therapeutic relationship within the emergency department?

fluid balance is an aspect of the homeostasis of organisms in which the amount of water in the organism needs to be controlled, via osmoregulation and behavior, such that the concentrations of electrolytes (salts in solution) in the various body fluids are kept within healthy ranges. the core principle of fluid balance is that the amount of water lost from the body must equal the amount of water taken in.