OK I know this sounds stupid but I have a friend that gets really freaked out before big tests like finals, HESI, NCLEX, and usually we get together and a few days before I start throwing out random facts at her. On 2 different tests she said the only way she got several questions was from the random facts that I threw at her that she never would have thought of!
SOOOOO..... I thought that if yall wanted to do this we could get a thread going and try to throw out 5 random facts or "things to remember". NCLEX is coming and the more I try to review content the more I realize that I have forgotten so......here are my 5 random facts for ya:
OH and BTW these came from rationales in Kaplan or Saunders no made up stuff:
1️⃣ A kid with Hepatitis A can return to school 1 week within the onset of jaundice.
2️⃣ After a patient has dialysis they may have a slight fever...this is normal due to the fact that the dialysis solution is warmed by the machine.
3️⃣ Hyperkalemia presents on an EKG as tall peaked T-waves
4️⃣ The antidote for Mag Sulfate toxicity is ---Calcium Gluconate
5️⃣ Impetigo is a CONTAGEOUS skin disorder and the person needs to wash ALL linens and dishes seperate from the family. They also need to wash their hands frequently and avoid contact.
Oh, ohh, one more...
? Vasopressin is also known as antidiuretic hormone
The results are in PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS........ Yes I have passed Nclex. Thanks to all of you for your support. Let me go celebrate will be back later.... Feliz i can see u are online... omg!!!! I passed nclex cant belive this...
The results are in PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS........ Yes I have passed Nclex. Thanks to all of you for your support. Let me go celebrate will be back later.... Feliz i can see u are online... omg!!!! I passed nclex cant belive this...
i wanted to know has anyone taking the nclex-pn (for practical nursing) used these fact throwing thread to help them study. because i notice their are things that only rns can do. i don't want to get mixed up.
The results are in PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS........ Yes I have passed Nclex. Thanks to all of you for your support. Let me go celebrate will be back later.... Feliz i can see u are online... omg!!!! I passed nclex cant belive this...
Heart felt Congratulations to you!!! :clphnds::ancong!:
Thanks Feliz....I still dont belive it..... now I have to clean my desk..with all the flash cards and notes.. God... Feliz I will pray for u let me know when u are taking yours.
congrats to everyone who has passed the boards. I sit for boards on jan 12. Sirisiri what kind of questions did you get on boards. I dont mean specific questions. I mean did you get lot of delegations, priorotizations or meds, ob, peds.....? Also how did you prepare for boards? I am doing about 100-200 questions a day. I have been studying for last 2 months and I just want to take the boards and get it over with.
Here are my five random facts
Billirubin will be elevated in someone who has Hep B.
Chickenpox is no longer communicable when all of the lesions have crusted.
cystic fibrosis: diet consists of high carb, high protien and high fat. They need high energy diet becuase of the energy needed to expectorate secretions. Since salt is lost through sweat, they may also need supplemental salt. Pancreatic enzymes are necessary due to tolerance to fatty foods.
Pyloric stenosis in children will result in projectile vommiting.
Bacterial meningitis: airborne isolation, assess neurological signs. in infants esp measure head circumference due to potential obstructive hydrocephalus.
Hey guys, cn u help me xplain disaster nursing and the plain emergency nursing f there's a so-called plain emergency...im confused between the two principles...
External Disaster = ambulatory first b4 critically ill
Internal disater = critically il, bedridden, ambulatory
Emergency = ABC, Maslow
Please enlighten me up on how they applied the princples on the following situations:
(BTW, tnx to feliz3.)
Q1: the home care nurse visits a client in a large apartment complex.During the visit, the area experiences a major earthquake.Which of the ff clients wud d nurse see first?
A. a restless client w rigid abdomen and absent bowel sounds.
B. an unconscious client w left-sided tracheal shift from midline. (answer)
C.a client complaining of excruciating pain w obvius deformity of the left leg.
D. a client clutching her chest and complaining of severe chest pain...
Q2.: A nurse driving home from work observes a car go off the road into a shallow embankment. When an ambulance arrives, the nurse advises the paramedics to transport which of the following patients to the hospital first?
A.A crying infant restrained in a rear-facing child safety seat.
B.The restrained front seat passenger who has a laceration to the right side of his head.
C.The restrained rear seat adult passenger who has a deformity of the right forearm and who complains of pain at the site.
D. The restrained driver who has faint discoloration around the umbilicus and complains of abdominal pain. (answer)
vamos-rafa:
Right away I can tell you have problems with prioritization. The way you presented your definitions is inaccurate, too. You are telling me that external disaster is equal to ambulatory first before critically ill? What does that mean? Read Saunders, 4th edition by Linda Anne Silvestri pp 77, section XVIII to page 80. The difference between types of disaster, and the introduction to the concept of TRIAGE is explained to you there. You need to know that.
As far as your examples is concerned, the first question is just testing fundamentals of nursing and critical thinking. You have to ask yourself when you become a registered nurse or even if you are not a nurse, yet, but during your rotations as nursing student you find an unconscious client with a left-sided tracheal shift from the midline WHY that is a medical emergency to you, and you would call the nurse or your instructor if he/she is around, right away? You can do a wikipedia or a fundamentals of nursing book and read what a left-sided tracheal shift to the midline, means. I cannot do that for you...you have to learn for this is critical thinking we are talking about...if you want to pass, you have to teach yourself to think that way.
Your second example is another question about prioritization, rafa. You ask yourself WHY while doing an assessment you notice the patient showing a discoloration around the umbilicous following up that finding is a priority to you. I'll give you a hint: wikipedia Cullen's Sign. You will learn why that's another medical emergency. Thus, it will be a priority.
Remember in the priority scheme clients who have an air obstruction emergencies are priority (Airway), second clients with breathing problems such as a client addicted to heroin and overdosed on it--heroin depresses the brain respiratory center, that's a medical emergency (Breathing). The third priority is circulatory (Circulation) problems such as the client you presented in your second question. There is a high probablity that your patient in question #2 is hemorrhaging internallly, why? I hope this helps you. Best, feliz3
Thanks Feliz....I still dont belive it..... now I have to clean my desk..with all the flash cards and notes.. God... Feliz I will pray for u let me know when u are taking yours.
I thank so much...I am delighted that you shared the good news with us...that is so nifty!!! The last time I sat for the NCLEX it was rough for I knew not much about prioritizing. I felt like the test was doing this to me :trout:
those prioritizing questions were going to kill me! However, I am working on it, though. I am a firm believer that people learn from their mistakes. Congratulations to you once more, Sirisiri. feliz3
hyperuricemia and hyperkalemia, are hallmark symptoms of tumor lysis syndrome, which often occur at the onset of chemotherapy when a large number of tumor cells are destroyed.
Pulmonary toxicity (dry nonproductive cough, crackles, dyspnea, tachypnea) is an adverse effect of busulfan (myleran). It can lead to pulmonary fibrosis
Hospice care provides compassion, concern, and support, for the dying client and family.pain control is an issue for the patient in the hospice care, as well as any client with cancer.
Oral polio, measles-mumps-rubella, and varicella vaccines are all contraindicated in the immunocompromised client.
The primary difference between benign and malignant tumors is the ability of the malignant tumor to invade adjacent tissues in metastized.
Complications of immobility are DVT, and decreased respiratory expansion, which can lead to pneumonia... Getting the client out of bed will help because weight bearing increases the vascular tone and decreases venous stasis, thereby preventing thrombi from developing. The increase in activity will also increase respiratory expansion and quality of breathing.
colposcopic exam is a microscopic exam of the cervix and is a common diagnostic test associated wit h cervical cancer.
The most common area for cancer to develop in the female body is the uterine cervix.
metabolic acidosis,is a complication of type 1 diabetes.
I thank so much...I am delighted that you shared the good news with us...that is so nifty!!! The last time I sat for the NCLEX it was rough for I knew not much about prioritizing. I felt like the test was doing this to me :trout:
those prioritizing questions were going to kill me! However, I am working on it, though. I am a firm believer that people learn from their mistakes. Congratulations to you once more, Sirisiri. feliz3
I think this comment is funny...every time I look at this particular smiley I laugh out loud for that was how I felt while trying to answer priority questions which I had no idea what the questions meant...I've been there, my friends, and felt that. feliz3 :chuckle
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The results are in PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS........ Yes I have passed Nclex. Thanks to all of you for your support. Let me go celebrate will be back later.... Feliz i can see u are online... omg!!!! I passed nclex cant belive this...