mkcrturner

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1. Expressive Apashia Pt, lots of blanks to fill in

   mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks Daytonite!! I just reread my post above your last reply- can you see how i am getting myself tied up? LOL as simple as it was you gave me some more ways to say the same thing- and each section now has it worded slightly different. This is our ...

2. Expressive Apashia Pt, lots of blanks to fill in

   mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks for the reply Daytonite. I got all the info from the chart (scant as it was)that I could and we are not allowed to make calls to family members. This pt has been in LTC for about 2 years so the chart does not contain info like "date of last p...

3. Expressive Apashia Pt, lots of blanks to fill in

   mkcrturner posted a topic in Student Assist

   Hi, I have one last care plan to do before graduation and have run into a NEW writers block. We did our rotation in LTC facility and I learned the term "poor historian" when filling in blanks for pt's with cognitive impairment. What I did not learn...

4. Desperately Need Help With Care Plans

   mkcrturner replied to LVN2006's topic in Student Assist

   That is exactly what i meant. I am used to having some actual 'abnormals' to evaluate to lead me to the nursing diagnosis. Thanks to this board i never made the common beginning error of thinking- this patient has copd, so they must be having some ai...

5. Desperately Need Help With Care Plans

   mkcrturner replied to LVN2006's topic in Student Assist

   Yup, I got the careplan concept mastered.... Piece of cake....review patients problems- check, Work backwards- check. I was quite proud of myself.. Now comes the wrench. I need to do nursing diagnosis and interventions on an imaginary pediatric patie...

6. Help with Care Plans

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

   Thanks Daytonite. Your fresh eyes helped alot. This Care Plan is hard to explain. But the middle pages have the areas broken up. And if there is one thing wrong/different/unusual/abnormal we need a NANDA dx for it. It gets confusing if your pat...

7. Help with Care Plans

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

   OK, I am truly stuck. I am doing a huge care plan. pt is 38 y.o. f with aids, hep c, mrsa in a wound from an ind to a cyst that has gone from anterior hip to the iliac crest with osteomyelitis (fun dressing change..) she was admitted w...

8. Wound Care Homework help please

   mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in Student Assist

   THANKS VERY much!! The websites/links were helpful as was your time to help me!

9. Wound Care Homework help please

   mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in Student Assist

   oh and... after the undermining clears up- the perfect dressing that is permeable and promotes healing by sealing in fibrin, plasma etc is called? and two examples. I am looking all over the place. This is for sure not in our book, we only have one p...

10. Wound Care Homework help please

    mkcrturner posted a topic in Student Assist

    I have a question I need some help with please. Our books are sorely lacking in pressure ulcer info. scenario= A pt with a stage 3 pressure ulcer....sacral coccyx area...7.5 cm x 5 cm and 5/8" deep with undermining (tunnels) at 2 o'clock and 9 o'clo...

11. How will our new grad Male RN work in L &D?

    mkcrturner replied to ragingmomster's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am F and prefer my M ob-gyn. As a matter of fact, I moved to FL and still schedule my annual exam during a trip back home to MI to see him. I had a F once and was uncomfortable with HER doing my breast exam, etc. Just my comfort level-When I am hea...

12. Care Plan help for "Impaired Urinary Elimination"

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in General Students

    Thanks to all who replied. This board is (and has been) a gift to me. From trying to get into school, and now to survive school. I am off to work on my care plan and study for test on 2 systems tomorrow- lymph and digestive. I truly appreciate the ...

13. Care Plan help for "Impaired Urinary Elimination"

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in General Students

14. Care Plan help for "Impaired Urinary Elimination"

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in General Students

    sorry I left that out- she had another problem and was in an infusion center for 54 days receiving antibiotics to treat a leg infection. While there she didn't get up much, became weak...... and so on. oh, and if i use the Urinary Retention dx, wher...

15. Care Plan help for "Impaired Urinary Elimination"

    mkcrturner posted a topic in General Students

    please help me with some wording.... our instructors will nto allow us to use medical dx for our r/t. my pt has a uti, was retaining 1000ml of urine so they put in a foley. i cannot use: "impaired urinary elimination r/t uti aeb....... " i am drawin...