Alie

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1. Dr. orders or nursing judgement???

   Alie replied to Alie's topic in General Nursing

2. Dr. orders or nursing judgement???

   Alie replied to Alie's topic in General Nursing

   There is not a written protocal. I go to a local community college and we do clinical at all of the local hospitals. There are six hospitals that we go to. I just think in nursing school we should go by the standard orders and when we go to work s...

3. Dr. orders or nursing judgement???

   Alie replied to Alie's topic in General Nursing

   should I argue then with the question that I got wrong b/c I said I would need to call the Dr. instead of starting IV without one.

4. Dr. orders or nursing judgement???

   Alie posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm in 3rd semester nursing and I'm having trouble determing what we need to get a physician order for or what a nurse can do on her own. I had test a Friday and this was 2 questions that I had missed. 1. Pt has TPN infusing single lumen port and D...

5. Dr's order or nurse's decision

   Alie posted a topic in General Students

   I'm a 3rd semester nursing student. I find that I sometimes don't know what a nurse needs to get an order for or can go ahead and do. Test Question-- Ex. Pt has TPN infusing in a single lumen port and Dr. orders Digoxin IVP. Do we start a peripher...

6. Anaphylatic Reaction and IVPB

   Alie posted a topic in General Students

   I am confused. If someone starts having an anaphlyatic reaction to an IVPB of like PCN what would you do 1st. Stop Pump, disconnect tubing, and flush the lowest port. But what do you do about med that is in tubing above lowest port. This was ...

7. D&C or D&E (Dialation)

   Alie replied to Alie's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks that made it a lot clearer for me.:)

8. D&C or D&E (Dialation)

   Alie posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a nursing student (2nd semester). While studying tonight I have a question. When there is a D&C or D&E done how is the cervix dialted. I can't find anything in the book about it. I know in class we did talk about metal dialtor rods lik...

9. What Station is Mom at (OB) Test Monday

   Alie replied to Alie's topic in General Students

   Thanks for your reply. But I have another question. When doing vag. exam how do you tell where ischial spines are located. i have been told you can feel them. Is is just one of those things you know and understand once you do it? Thanks in advanc...

10. What Station is Mom at (OB) Test Monday

    Alie posted a topic in General Students

    How do you determine what station someone is at? I look at the pictures in book and understand what it is, but it does not say anywhere exactly how you tell this. I assume it must be through vag. exam??? We did not go over this Tuesday have not bee...

11. Drug Calc problem, Help??

    Alie replied to Alie's topic in General Nursing

    thanks everyone for your help. These questions have not been like any other sample problems or anything we have even done in class (I'm going in 2nd week of 2nd semester). Last minute Friday they handed these out. I'm not sure any will even be on o...

12. Drug Calc problem, Help??

    Alie posted a topic in General Nursing

    Please help with these problems. They are on a review sheet that I don't have the key for. My test is tomarrow, any help greatly appreciated. 1. D5W 500 ml with 10,000 U Heparin. Infuse at 100 U/HR usina a microdrip set (60 gtt/ml). 2. The order...

13. Drug Calculations

    Alie posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm starting 2nd sem. in 2 weeks and we are suppose to have worked on our drug calculations module before we start school and I am having a hard time because there must be some formula's that I don't know about somewhere. For example how to convert ...

14. Weak Stomach

    Alie replied to TristateRN's topic in General Students

    I don't really think I have a weak stomach. But diarrhea pooled in the bed made me gag. It was only the smell that bothered me. I was helping a fellow student and she saw the look on my face and said "go". If pt was able to understand what was go...

15. Erb's heart sound

    Alie replied to Alie's topic in General Students

    thank you for your help. I have listened to someone's heart in lab. We have a test Friday and they are using a CD. You don't here any backgroung noises or anything. She let us listen to it in class, but almost everyone in the whole class thought ...