Mild pre-eclampsia is diagnosed when your blood pressure is only a little elevated, while severe pre-eclampsia is diagnosed with very high blood pressures and other symptoms, such as headache, abdominal pain, blood and liver abnormalities, and having a large amount of protein in your urine.
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This is what I'm getting from Kaplan: LPN/LVN's can do dressing changes, and can be assigned the most stable patient with the most predictable outcome. They can not do any assessment or patient teaching. So if a pt is being discharged, you can not delegate that pt to a LPN/LVN because discharge needs patient teaching.