I have an interview for a Nurse Residency position in the Trauma Unit at a level 1 trauma hospital on 5/27. Any advice for what to expect?? I have an interview with the HR dept. first and then with the hiring manager afterwards. It's my first intervi...
Yeah, that makes sense. His skin was fine, no breakdown. He had just been admitted the evening before. He was in end-stage COPD so I could go towards powerlessness r/t progressive nature of disease? I feel like my prof. would say he wouldn't be at ri...
Sorry I was replying on my phone the last time. His vent settings: Peep- 5.0 I:E- 1:2.7 FiO2- 30% VT- 550 RR-12 and he was on assist control. The doctors were contemplating on placing a trach because he had been intubated so many times in the past. W...
He had decreased breath sound and wheezing. He had the barrel chest. As for the ABGs his latest was a pH of 7.41 PCO2 67 121 bicarb 42.5. He has HTN, afib, CAD, he had an MI in 06, hypercapnia. He had been in the ICU five times in the past six month...
So a little background on my patient. He came in through the E.D. SOB, 3L NC O2 as 90% they gave him a breathing treatment his O2 went to 100%. He has a history of COPD and has been intubated several times in the passed. He was put on Bipap but his L...
My pt was a 2 m/o in the NICU barely weighed 2.5 kg he was born at 28 weeks. I am having trouble with a developmental nursing diagnosis. I have so far risk for delayed development r/t prematurity AEB?? Not sure if I am even on the right track any hel...
All we were given to go off of was that we are to make a nursing care plan with a full page single space of nursing diagnosis for a woman during stage 1 of term labor & vaginal birth. Pt would be considered normal and low risk. Priorities cannot ...
Thank you! You definitely helped me narrow down the most important. Yeah it would definitely help if they gave us more information about the patient, but no such luck. Thanks again! I appreciate the help for sure!
I'm in my first semester of my junior year. The only book I have for nursing diagnosis is the Nursing Diagnosis Handbook by Ackley and Ladwig. It's not a real life infant and literally the only information we were given about the infant was that he w...
All we were given to go off of for our nursing dx is it is a term newborn male from birth to 48 hours old. I need help finding 3 priority nursing diagnosis. I was thinking along the lines of inadequate thermoregulation r/t immaturity of neuroendocrin...