kel879

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  1. You Know You're a Nurse When...

    When I bought my new car back in the Summer, I signed all my paperwork KGoff RN...I'm sure Ford Motor Company really cared LOL
  2. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Mixing Miralax in coffee results in BM that literally no exaggeration covers entire bed, 90% of patient, and floor around bed.........Maybe I should have said only mix miralax in coffee if sitting on BSC or commode....believe me when I tell you no on...
  3. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    and from personal experience..........do not have altercations with walls..I promise you the wall will win and you will have a boxers fracture along with 4th and 5th metacarpal fractures.........broken hands in casts prevent you from attending clinic...
  4. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Also do not eat your fentanyl patch...this will land you in the ICU for an undetermined amount of time....if you do survive it will also land you a psych consult.........after said psych consult and concurrent discharge........please for goodness sak...
  5. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Do not: be a frequent flyer on the renal floor for CRF on dialysis and have your family members bring you table salt to eat so you can get your BP up high enough to get your dilaudid! Do not mix Miralax in your coffee
  6. Thanks for the advice. I tried that as well. It seems to me based on my research today that second degree heart block is a medical condition that is not widely understood at this point. They know what happens, but not really why or how. But I do ...
  7. Prioritization

    :bugeyes:Decreased cardiac output r/t altered heart rhythm Ineffective breathing pattern r/t depressant effects of anesthesia Impaired physical mobility r/t limited cardiovascular endurance Acute pain r/t surgical intervention Risk for infection r/t...
  8. safe dose calculations

    :bugeyes:Apparently it is my day for confusion...maybe I have just been at this too long today. Our instructors require us to work up meds for our care plans. They want the safe dose range which I thought was what was listed in the Drug book. When...
  9. I am working on yet another care plan since I had the flu thru our last clinical and am now required to do a makeup with an entirely new patient and new surgical procedure.........I am having trouble finding the pathophysiology for Type II Mobitz 2nd...
  10. HELP! Inguinal Hernia Careplan

    These are our surgical simulations....The information I posted is all I have to go on. My assignment as I said is post op, but I have no info on incision or how client tolerated surgery. This is the 2nd round of these surgical sims and I had troubl...
  11. I am a 2nd semester nursing student who is struggling with care plans as well. This particular one is related to an inguinal hernia that I will be caring for post operatively Here is what I know: 55 y/o F; recently began weight training; c/o sudden o...