Fig77

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1. Very confused student

   Fig77 replied to madge1's topic in Student Assist

   Stroke volume is the volume of blood pumped out during each contraction by a ventricle. Heart rate simply put is the number of heart beats per minute. Cardiac output is the volume of blood pumped out per minute. The relationship mathematically is Car...

2. New grad got fired, help

   Fig77 replied to haitianrn's topic in General Nursing

   Outside this online world, unlike most of the people (I am not going to name) here who spend a lot of time here online bashing about people who come out to seek help and answers but instead gets bashed about their stories/situations.

3. New grad got fired, help

   Fig77 replied to haitianrn's topic in General Nursing

   If we take this discussion outside the online into a real world, I doubt half of these "honesty" will come out. When the OP is directly asking some questions, and the people instead start roaring about something else (although related, but not asked ...

4. New grad got fired, help

   Fig77 replied to haitianrn's topic in General Nursing

   The world outside this online discussion thread will be more kind and less judgmental, imho. Because in a real world you will have variety of people, rather than people with same opinion. But it is always good idea to learn from the mistakes and list...

5. First day of NS, confused about homework... I need a little help

   Fig77 replied to jcolli01's topic in Student Assist

   I am sorry, but I am bit confused about this homework. What's the question? Finding out what the Medical/Nursing Diagnosis or something?

6. New grad got fired, help

   Fig77 replied to haitianrn's topic in General Nursing

   i think the best thing is to move and learn from the mistakes. that aside, since you are a new grad maybe you could avoid mentioning your first job to start with. good luck. ---- i think a lot of people are missing the point - he or she is asking for...

7. PHARMacology questions

   Fig77 replied to whtangl23's topic in Student Assist

   Are you sure the question reads Colace 20mg per teaspoon? ordered is 3/4 gr = 0.75 gr = 48.75 mg if 1 gr is 65 mg. available = 50 mg Amount = Desired (Ordered) / Available (On hand) X Quantity ( tabs in this case) =48.75 mg / 50 mg ...

8. Emergency Nursing: Acute substernal chest pain

   Fig77 replied to CollaborateRN's topic in Student Assist

   I can see why o2 sat will have higher priority over cardiac monitor even though the patients chief complaint has to do with the chest pain. For one breathing ces before circulation and secondly the patient was laboring at breathing at high rate.

9. im Wrong? PLZ tell me

   Fig77 replied to MaleNurse25's topic in Student Assist

   Man, I can see what exactly you are saying. But I can also see why your instructor's answer is more correct in a sense as well. I k For example, for the first problem both you and the instructor are correct - equally. from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medl...

10. Is this the right prioritization? help please!!

    Fig77 replied to Sara5229's topic in Student Assist

    I think it is in the right order in general. But I think the order of priority can change very easily depending on the nursing dx (full 3 parts). For example if the patient is immuno suppressed, the priority for the risk for infection will rise. Simi...

11. Nursing Dx for atrial fibrillation

    Fig77 replied to olivejuice06's topic in Student Assist

    Here is an easy one Activity intolerance r/t sob and high bp secondary to afib aeb (any evidence u noticed during assesment/observation).

12. help with diagnosis of "left septic knee"

    Fig77 replied to daylightfadin's topic in Student Assist

    Left knee infection - cause could range from knee surgery and acquiring an infection as it got expose to pathogens in the health facility to extoxins within the body.

13. MATH>>Help please.. If i dont pass this class I wont get to start clinical!!!!!

    Fig77 replied to manage1121's topic in Student Assist

    i estimated 1 dram as 4 cc. that 250mg per dram is the drug available per volume and i used it as 250 mg/4cc - while doing calculations above.

14. Care Plan help: Elder Skin integrity

    Fig77 replied to morningland's topic in Student Assist

    I m not sure what we call this condition bit I hope u r not planning to add that to the nursing dx, because physician diagnoses the medical condition. It is not within nurse's scope of practice. Nurse does nursing diagnosis -- patients response to ...

15. MATH>>Help please.. If i dont pass this class I wont get to start clinical!!!!!

    Fig77 replied to manage1121's topic in Student Assist

    I did like this ::: Drug available/volume available = drug ordered/volume to administer 120 mg/ 5 ml = 250 mg/ ml to admin ml to admin = 250 mg/ 120 mg X 5 ml ml to admin = 10 ml