Livingmydream1

Livingmydream1 has 15 years experience and specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatrics, Palliative Care.

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1. The Calling: What Made Me Pursue a Nursing Career

   Livingmydream1 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Rock

   I won't say that nursing was a calling of mine but it has been my dream since 5 years old. The profession didn't mean the same to me fresh out of school as it does today. I would however say that it defines who I am as an individual.... I give the be...

2. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

   Livingmydream1 replied to Bortaz's topic in Professionalism

   I think this is why many employers are looking on FB profile pages to see who their possible employees are outside of the interview. We go into an interview at our best, putting up the best front. A view of a FB profile may show a different story.

3. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

   Livingmydream1 replied to Bortaz's topic in Professionalism

   UGH facebook!! The place where people feel the need to go and spew anything and everything to anyone and everyone who will read it and pay even a little bit of attention to them. I often cringe when I see some things posted in my newsfeed from others...

4. Wound Care question

   Livingmydream1 replied to Livingmydream1's topic in Student Assist

   Several trips back and forth to see the surgeon for follow up, it's all coming together for me. The surgeon was going to take my husband back into the OR on Friday to debride the necrotic and infected tissue that was still present. I asked him if we ...

5. Wound Care question

   Livingmydream1 posted a topic in Student Assist

   I need some help! We just completed a wound care assignment a couple weeks ago and now I find myself in a weird (undesirable) place. Our assignment focused on a patient with a stage III pressure ulcer. We were required to say what we would expect to ...

6. Post op nursing care plan help

   Livingmydream1 replied to Livingmydream1's topic in General Students

   Is pain control a basic physiologic need according to Maslow's Hierarchy or should I focus more on the risk for infection because of the surgical incision?

7. Post op nursing care plan help

   Livingmydream1 replied to Livingmydream1's topic in General Students

   Thank you for your help... I think I have enough to get this done now

8. Post op nursing care plan help

   Livingmydream1 posted a topic in General Students

   i'm working on a nursing care plan for a general surigcal patient (no specific surgery... just a post op patient). for the assignment i'm working on, i have to have 4 nursing diagnosis, 3 interventions for each diagnosis, rationale for each intervent...