TessaMae

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1. teaching project going in different direction...Please help

   TessaMae replied to TessaMae's topic in Student Assist

   This is honestly the most vaugue assignment I have had, thank goodness it is the last! We had to pick a topic based on a real person with a real issue that we could teach outside of school. The paper actually is not going to have an actual nursing...

2. teaching project going in different direction...Please help

   TessaMae posted a topic in Student Assist

   Our final project is to identify a patient in need of teaching regarding a disease/illness/problem they are having, and develop a plan of care based on one of the things they need to learn. My broad topic is low-back pain and my patient is a pregnant...

3. HELP!! Anxiety and Acute Pain NCP

   TessaMae replied to stressingaimee's topic in General Students

   Do you have a nursing diagnosis book? I think that would help you alot. You would not ever say acute pain related to excessive alcohol. Heres some examples directly from the book: Acute pain may be related to obstruction of pancreatic/biliary ducts, ...

4. MASLOW'S HIERARCHY examples and contraindications

   TessaMae replied to vadee's topic in NCLEX

5. How important is GPA?

   TessaMae replied to TessaMae's topic in General Students

   The 1 yr program to complete my BSN is 45 credits, so assuming I earn an A in all those courses my GPA could potentially be a 3.75ish.

6. How important is GPA?

   TessaMae posted a topic in General Students

   I had a 4.0 before nursing school and got a B throughout the ADN program, leaving me with a cummulative of around 3.5. I am going to be attending an RN to BSN program BUT once I finish that...how important is my GPA if I want to try and get in to a ...

7. Nursing Diagnosis - Can I write my own or need to take from book?

   TessaMae replied to cupcakesncream16's topic in General Nursing

   Constipation can be used as a nursing diagnosis, it is in my carpinito book. There is Constipation, risk for constipation, and risk for constipation. An actual nursing diagnosis according to carpinito has to of been validated by the presence of major...

8. Help with Nursing Diagnosis

   TessaMae replied to cupcakesncream16's topic in General Nursing

   I use the Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis by Carpinito-Moyet and in the back of it there is a section for medical conditions and ND and PC that go along with them. For DM it has the following listed: the most common is ND: imbalanced nutrition more th...

9. Nursing Diagnosis - Can I write my own or need to take from book?

   TessaMae replied to cupcakesncream16's topic in General Nursing

   My professor said you should really take them from the book. As far as the one you wrote, I think by making your own it makes it a little confusing because it leaves out information. The person is constipated related to urinating excessively second...

10. For those of you "hot shots" who didn't think the nursing program was " that hard"...

    TessaMae replied to caffeineRx's topic in General Nursing

    The rhythm method

11. Help with med for Cardiac Exam - Allopurinal and Angina

    TessaMae replied to ravenapple's topic in Student Assist

    Allopurinol reduces myocardial oxygen demand...according to my professor. I personally remembered it for completely incorrect reasons apparently. I thought it was an alpha beta blocker (ilol) I thought it dilated the vessels. Oops!

12. advise!!! nclex-RN considering nclex-PN

    TessaMae replied to xxkouxx's topic in NCLEX

    Not sure if it is the same when you are studying for a retake but at my school we have a 98% first time pass rate. They suggest that we take the nclex within 4 weeks of finishing school and not to self study for 2-3 months. We take finals, the scho...

13. What would you do?

    TessaMae replied to shoegalRN's topic in Emergency

    Did this guy yell in front of everyone in the loby specific information about the patient? It seems like he was violating HIPAA in addition to lacking professionalism. I think if you send this email account of events in an objective manner with jus...

14. First nursing test

    TessaMae replied to amymina's topic in General Students

    I am in my last year of school. I did not read everything they assigned, just the info that I needed. I used a book by FA Davis called Fundamentals Success, it also has a CD with many nclex questions. I think most students would suggest a nclex bo...

15. Cardiovascular system - important things to know

    TessaMae replied to Zoe*aka*studentnurse's topic in General Students

    just reviewing my notes and realized I made a typo...nitro tabs should tingle under tongue.