nursetobehopefully

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1. Brain cancer metast. from lung, Diagnosis??

   nursetobehopefully replied to nursetobehopefully's topic in Student Assist

   Thank you! My first is Innefective Tissue Perfusion, and then I was going to use Nutrition, less than. I was thinking between altered mental status and a pychosocial but my instructor is not to thrilled when we put those on there! So the three I'm go...

2. Brain cancer metast. from lung, Diagnosis??

   nursetobehopefully replied to nursetobehopefully's topic in Student Assist

   The pt is going to hospice, I treated the pt. on an acute basis, so therefore I need to have diagnosis that fit the time spent on the Med-Surg floor, not hospice. So that is why we were not treating palliative, the pt is still recieving radiation, de...

3. Brain cancer metast. from lung, Diagnosis??

   nursetobehopefully posted a topic in Student Assist

   Thank you everyone for your help, your advise defintly got me in the right direction and I got a 90!! However I have my last care plan due before my finals and my patient was in for altered mental status and was found that his lung cancer had metast...

4. Please help, instructor wants diagnosis not related to Fundamentals

   nursetobehopefully replied to nursetobehopefully's topic in Student Assist

   Thank you, I was thinking the same thing but wasn't sure, I'm not feeling so sure of myself these days. Her hx says nothing of anemia nor anything else but her labs sure do! Thanks again

5. Please help, instructor wants diagnosis not related to Fundamentals

   nursetobehopefully posted a topic in Student Assist

   Hello, I'm new here to the site and I think I posted my question in the wrong place. I have a patient who has Celulitis, hx of renal insufficiency, type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and CHF. I want to use skin integrity but my instructor wants ...

6. Help! Instructor wants diagnosis that aren't related to Fundamentals!

   nursetobehopefully replied to nursetobehopefully's topic in General Students

   I was looking at Tissue Perfusion because she does not have sufficient circulation, the hgb, hct, rbc are very low. Maybe I do not understand??

7. Help! Instructor wants diagnosis that aren't related to Fundamentals!

   nursetobehopefully replied to nursetobehopefully's topic in General Students

   Thank you, I apparently read into tissue perfusion wrong! I would like to use risk for falls or impaired mobility but they too are on our "do not use list" I understand they want us to look at the pathophys, but I don't like not having all the NANDA ...

8. Got No Job? Come be an RN !

   nursetobehopefully replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   I have to say the schools definitly weed people out, unfortunatly they don't always weed out the right ones. I have seen many go, people who would have made excellent nurses but got on the bad side of thier clinical instructor for whatever the reason...

9. Help! Instructor wants diagnosis that aren't related to Fundamentals!

   nursetobehopefully posted a topic in General Students

   Hello all! I'm new here to the site, I'm in the last 6 weeks of my LPN program and in need of some serious help! I have a paper due, not exactly a care plan but close. I need 3 diagnosis and 3 interventions except my instructor wants us to move away ...