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1. Nursing diagnoses for modified radical mastectomy

   Smurfie replied to Smurfie's topic in General Students

   Thank you all so much for your help. I think I'll stick with acute pain, and then maybe impaired tissue integrity. For a potential problem, I think I'll head down the psychosocial nursing path and maybe do disturbed body image or the like. Thanks ag...

2. Nursing diagnoses for modified radical mastectomy

   Smurfie posted a topic in General Students

   Hi everyone, I have a case study that I have to "discuss two actual and one potential nursing problems and their evidence-based interventions in the first 48 hours after surgery". The patient it's based on is a 40 year old Mum who was found to have i...

3. What's the difference between a nursing goal and the expected outcomes?

   Smurfie replied to Smurfie's topic in Student Assist

   Thank you, I'm still a bit confused though. Is the nursing goal the opposite of the nursing diagnosis? For example, you may remember from another thread, my diagnosis is "Ineffective coping related to inadequate problem solving skills as evidenced by...

4. What's the difference between a nursing goal and the expected outcomes?

   Smurfie posted a topic in Student Assist

   I'm a bit confused. I've been reading a couple threads and they seem to say that the goal has to specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely, however these, I've been led to believe, are related to the expected outcomes. For example, my as...

5. Nursing Diagnosis - Psychosocial

   Smurfie replied to Lemetria Whitehurst's topic in Student Assist

   One more question for Daytonite - you've used 'inadequate problem solving' as your related factor in your example, but it is given as a 'defining charcateristic' rather than a 'related factor' in my nursing diagnosis textbook. Can it still be used?

6. Nursing Diagnosis - Psychosocial

   Smurfie replied to Lemetria Whitehurst's topic in Student Assist

   Also... Can we use future assumptions for Ineffective Coping in our AEB bit by the way? ie. she's proven her coping mechanisms are inadequate by not disclosing her medical disorder to her fiance, but we can also assume (not necessarily a wise move, I...

7. Nursing Diagnosis - Psychosocial

   Smurfie replied to Lemetria Whitehurst's topic in Student Assist

   LOL, I think you might be in my class at uni. Actually, given your username I think I have an idea who you might be too. (Did I see you in Woolies last week?!) I just googled for epilepsy nursing diagnosis ideas and found this!! I too have been strug...

8. OK, I'll do it, where are you from

   Smurfie replied to 2ndCareerRN's topic in General Nursing

   I'm from Sydney, Australia :)

9. What's the difference between LPN, LVN, RN etc?

   Smurfie posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a first year Nursing student in Australia, doing our 3 year uni degree to become an RN at the end. The other main nursing qualifications we have are an Enrolled Nurse (EN) which is a year of study split between TAFE and practical hospital based b...

10. Help with Care Plans

    Smurfie replied to rn/writer's topic in General Students

    Can anyone help distinguish GOALS as opposed to EXPECTED OUTCOMES? I am really struggling with my very first care plan - for a lady who has been admitted for asthma exacerbated by an URTI, and we have to focus on the nursing diagnosis of Impaired Gas...

11. Asthma and Impaired Gas Exchange

    Smurfie replied to Smurfie's topic in General Students

    Oh also, aren't hypercapnia and hypercarbia the same thing?

12. Asthma and Impaired Gas Exchange

    Smurfie replied to Smurfie's topic in General Students

    Thank you! What fantastic info you've given me! I have one other problem that I can't figure out. I've looked up the meaning of hypercarbia (more than the normal level of CO2 in the blood), but then 'Impaired Gas Exchange' also has 'decreased carbon ...

13. Asthma and Impaired Gas Exchange

    Smurfie replied to Smurfie's topic in General Students

    Thank you so much for the quick answer! So it's just a matter of where the most bronchoconstriction and mucus accumulation is that determines which alveoli will have adequate air supply. Gosh I've been googling and searching journals for the last 2 d...

14. Asthma and Impaired Gas Exchange

    Smurfie posted a topic in General Students

    Hi everyone, I have no idea if this is the right place to put this question so hopefully it is! I have an assessment for uni (I'm first year BN student) due in 10 days in which I have to do a care plan for a lady who's been admitted to hospital suffe...