It's a term used to describe our practise. As I recall it involves thinking, feeling, doing and being in relation to providing nursing care for a patient. I was wondering if this is, in fact, completely correct or if I am missing one or two component...
Throughout my program, we have been asked to describe and explore others' "lived experience". I was thinking about this and realized that I don't have clear idea what a lived experience means. I always assumed that the lived experience is another ter...
I've been hearing about nursing advocacy all through my program, but I'm not completely sure what it is. My understanding of it is that when patients need help for example when a doctor did not answer his or her questions, or have a question but don'...
Littlepeanurse replied to Littlepeanurse's topic in Medications
It is a peds patient. The child weights 33.5 lbs. The ordered dosage is lower than the dosage based on weight. The practitioner orders 100 mg PO TID but the weight based dosage calculation yields 101.3 mg/dose.
The doctor prescribes acetaminophen and you have to calculate the dosages based on weight. And you find that there's a difference between the prescribed dosage and the dosage that you get when you from the dosage based on body weight calculations. If...