Re: Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

Originally Posted by traumaRUs

Strictly my opinion here but as an advanced practice nurse, NANDA is garbage and not worth the paper its printed on. This "disturbed energy field" is the height of frivolty and trivializes the entire nursing profession. What's next?

I couldn't agree more.

Re: Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

This is so completely vague and universally applicable that it is nonsensical.


Whatever that means.

Re: Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

Originally Posted by traumaRUs

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...Nursing students would be better served learning care paths versus nursing care plans. These young nurses need to know the whys and what-fors for the care they are providing as well as knowing what to look for in a specific disease process. Critical thinking is the watch word but its truly just good old fashioned horse sense. If you have a patient that becomes dizzy and light-headed sitting on the bedside and you have orders to ambulate them, you put them back to bed and call the MD to find out what other measures need to be done which might include just sitting them at the bedside for a few minutes, sitting in a chair, etc..

Trauma,

Can you recomend a book for a young nurse to-be (me!) about care paths? I can read I in my spare time.

Re: Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

This would be a good one if you were taking care of psychic with a brain injury or something

Re: Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

Originally Posted by nursesaideBen

This would be a good one if you were taking care of psychic with a brain injury or something

*Sunny in her best Miss Cleo voice*

"Call me now!"

Re: Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that that dx was related to t-touch (i.e. legitimizing t-touch as a nursing "tool")?

therapeutic touch

And yes, I've been telling all my classmates since day 1 of the program that I was going to list that as my primary dx on all care plans, and have yet to actually do it (chicken!)...

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Can you imagine the kinds of interventions this might lead to???

Honestly, it's stuff like this that makes us look like doofuses (doofi?) to the rest of the medical community.

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can i call in sick with a disturbed energy field ?

Re: Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

Originally Posted by muffie

can i call in sick with a disturbed energy field ?

Weird thing is, it probably wouldn't be the first time someone did that.

Re: Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

Originally Posted by psychonaut

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that that dx was related to t-touch (i.e. legitimizing t-touch as a nursing "tool")?

therapeutic touch

And yes, I've been telling all my classmates since day 1 of the program that I was going to list that as my primary dx on all care plans, and have yet to actually do it (chicken!)...

I've been teaching now for almost 5 years and in all that time, not even one student has attempted this diagnosis for his or her careplan I don't know how I'd respond if someone actually were to do so. How would one grade or evaluate such a diagnosis????