alaskalala

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1. New Grad preparing for Neuro ICU

   alaskalala replied to alikate's topic in Neuro

   VENTS. Majority of our patients are vented for part of, and in some cases, all of their stay with us. BP management is large, maybe largest. Sometimes that's all I'm doing for 12 hours, chasing BP. One guy is sky-high, and the other is bottoming ...

2. K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala replied to alaskalala's topic in MICU

   Thank you to all who replied. What a great resource you are, tremendously helpful. I went back to my A&P text, reread Acid/Base, F&E, and Renal chapters - surprisingly: not much there. Searched this forum for other related threads, many m...

3. Help, K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala replied to alaskalala's topic in Student Assist

   I went back to my A&P textbook and reread the Acid/Base, F&E chapter, then the renal chapter. I'm still awash. This is one complex balancing act. Then you, Daytonite, come up with the excerpt from Methany, and blow my tentative grip on thin...

4. Help, K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala replied to alaskalala's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks, Anna, For confirming the intracellular shift thing. But if both calcium and potassium are shifting to the intracellular space because of the alkalosis, why replace one and not the other? I meant to say "if they HYPOventilate her" it would dro...

5. K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala posted a topic in MICU

   I'm a nursing student, doing clinical rotations in the MICU. I am digging into acid/base a little deeper than I have before. My patient had metabolic alkalosis with a little respiratory compensation, and her K+ was low (3.2), and Calcium was little ...

6. Help, K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala posted a topic in Student Assist

   I am digging into acid/base a little deeper than I have before. My patient had metabolic alkalosis with a little respiratory compensation, and her K+ was low (3.2), and Calcium was little low too. The docs were rounding and one of them was saying, "...

7. Helpful careplan books

   alaskalala replied to SN31's topic in General Students

   Betty Ackley and Gail Ladwig, Nursing Diagnosis Handbook. The best, hands down. Save yourself some dough, and get a used one, a previous edition (they don't change that much). Shielda Rodgers, Medical-Surgical Nursing Care Plans is also good, and a...

8. Daytonite (Maslows)

   alaskalala replied to PsychNurseWannaBe's topic in General Students

   Hi, I think this might be what you were looking for, it was a great help to me. https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/priority-diagnosis-278240.html

9. PRIORITY diagnosis

   alaskalala replied to alaskalala's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks, Jules, for the offer to help prioritize. I usually do o.k. there. It's providing a rationale for my choice that hangs me up. And thanks, Daytonite, for the expanded Maslow. I like how the ABC's are incorporated. And I've never seen a prio...

10. PRIORITY diagnosis

    alaskalala posted a topic in Student Assist

    Our weekly care plans ask for our top three nursing diagnoses. Out of the three, we are asked to choose the PRIORITY dx (and give a care plan for it), and to provide a rationale for why this particular dx is our top choice. I can come up with loads ...

11. question about skills testing

    alaskalala replied to cottontop's topic in General Students

    michar-- The "Mosby videos" you mentioned sound like just what I need, could you point me to them? Thanks.

12. Nursing school schools with short waiting lists

    alaskalala replied to bj2006's topic in General Students

    I was in your shoes last year. Impossibly long wait list where I lived (Alaska). I had no choice but to relocate and searched high and low, all over the US. Scarey! Wait lists everywhere, except a few private colleges that wanted 20 grand a year....

13. NLN Pre admission test questions here!

    alaskalala replied to cherryswitch's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Cherryswitch, I take my NLN pre-admission test in April, and I'm really nervous -- so much riding on one test. I have been working through the review guide by McDonald this week, but it would be a tremendous help if you could advise on where to focu...

14. Questions about traveling to alaska

    alaskalala replied to Rightalong's topic in Travel

    Rightalong, I'm only pre-nursing student, so I can't help you with the agency questions, but I have lived in Alaska for almost 20 years, so I think I can contribute to your other questions. You can drive up to Bellingham, Washington, and get on a fer...