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1. help w/ nursing dx/formulating my thoughts

   shrimpchips replied to shrimpchips's topic in Student Assist

   She is only hydrochlorothiazide, most likely because of the HTN. No edema at all, no crackles in her lungs...no s/s that would would be positive for hypervolemia. It's possible she has some CHF problems but she also has some renal problems, too (he...

2. help w/ nursing dx/formulating my thoughts

   shrimpchips posted a topic in Student Assist

   This is driving me crazy! Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this but I'm struggling with coming up with appropriate nursing diagnoses. For my med-surg class, we have to write a fluid and electrolyte paper. We have to have four diagnoses total - t...

3. lab values

   shrimpchips replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

   What is the name of the book?

4. What grade is "passing" in your nursing school??

   shrimpchips replied to blessed2bfree's topic in General Students

   My school requires a 74

5. RNotes

   shrimpchips replied to Angelica's topic in General Students

   I love RNotes! I carry it to clinical with me :) My only gripe is that it can sometimes be hard to find information, even though they are tabbed off my sections but for example if you're trying to find some information on central lines, you know it...

6. lab values

   shrimpchips replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

   I don't know any mnemonics but I'm hoping someone will share some...otherwise I just find notecards help with learning these!

7. What are some better ways to understand and memorize the material?

   shrimpchips replied to ttt-n's topic in General Students

   Here's my advice: 1) get a good NCLEX book. I recommend Saunders or NCLEX-RN: Reviews & Rationales. The Reviews & Rationales book is great but if you're a visual learner, the book might not be so great because it doesn't have very many pict...

8. What's the toughest part of A&PI?

   shrimpchips replied to mell260's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I would have to say learning all of the bones, muscles, and the nervous system. The endocrine is a pain in the butt, too.

9. Bathing Classmates and Other Personal Boundaries?

   shrimpchips replied to brownhairedgal's topic in General Students

   My school does not allow us to do any sort of invasive procedure on other students. Instead, we have dummies and sim men/babies and "injecta-pads," etc. When we learned how to do perform a bed bath, we didn't really do them on each other...They gav...

10. University of Akron Accelerated BSN

    shrimpchips replied to TiffanyBCbus's topic in General Students

    I'm not really sure on how many students they admit into the accelerated program, but I'm in the basic BSN program there and we originally had 160 (some dropped/failed though... ). I'm currently in a class that's for the accelerated students but sin...

11. How many hours of sleep did you get a night when you were in nursing school?

    shrimpchips replied to 2bnurseofchrist's topic in General Students

    usually around 6...but it just depends...

12. What type of drug tests do nursing schools do?

    shrimpchips replied to jillebean's topic in General Students

    surprisingly, my school did not do a drug test; however, our student handbook says that they can do random drug testing, I guess. I've only ever had drug tests for my job - I work as a nurse tech in a hospital.

13. I want to be a matirnity nurse and I was wondering..

    shrimpchips replied to meg567's topic in General Nursing

    maternity/postpartum nurse...if you work in labor & delivery (L&D), that would make you a labor & delivery nurse. I'm a nursing student but I've already had by OB rotation in both maternity/PP and L&D so I can offer some insight. Th...

14. Fluid and electrolyte help

    shrimpchips replied to dmfisher86's topic in Student Assist

    Daytonite, THANK YOU!!! These will definitely come in handy for my upcoming nursing class this semester...we focus a lot on F&E

15. Uniform badges: which sleeve?

    shrimpchips replied to krimicrat's topic in General Students

    Our patches are sewn on the right shoulder/sleeve