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  1. Excess Blood Transfusion

    discobunni posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am hoping someone can help me... I am a nursing student, but I was wondering if anyone else has ever experienced this. Last night, my father-in-law was taken to the ER because he had a piece of...

  2. Excess Blood Transfusion

    discobunni replied to discobunni's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you Chris! I haven't even gotten to see him yet (stuck at home w/sick kid) but my husband said his color was good. I kept asking him the same question last night...he wasn't pale?????? He was...

  3. Excess Blood Transfusion

    discobunni replied to discobunni's topic in General Nursing

    :lol_hitti

  4. Experienced Nurses! Hardened heart?

    discobunni posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    PLEASE, tell me what is happening here!! I've been pretty bothered by many of the things I've encountered while doing my clinicals, in ALL the settings I have worked in so far. I decided to go into...

  5. Nursing with hyperdidrosis

    discobunni replied to Live In Balance's topic in General Students

    My husband has hyperhydrosis, his feet would start sweating the moment he puts socks on, and he had never-ending athletes foot. His doctor prescribed a medicine that kept him from sweating, but he...

  6. Careplan help: Vater syndrome

    discobunni posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm doing a careplan for a little girl 2 yrs old. She is being admitted for colostomy removal after a successful PSARD 6 months ago. Because she is Vater syndrome she has renal failure. Abnormal...

  7. Careplan help: Vater syndrome

    discobunni replied to discobunni's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oh I see someone beat me to the Medical DX... heheheheh But anyway, I'm just wondering for most nursing schools are there exceptions to Nursing DX Prioritizing for careplans? Or do you ALWAYS follow...

  8. Careplan help: Vater syndrome

    discobunni replied to discobunni's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    hi there, first of all thanks for the reply! this little girl has all kinds of problems, the real medical dx is actually v.a.t.e.r., (or vacterl) which stands for v: vertebral dysgenesis a: anal...

  9. Does anybody here have a pathophysiology for pain?

    discobunni replied to beatot's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I would think the pathophysiology of pain would differ on circumstances. But for post op pain it would be related to surgical incision. So then pain is related to the degree of receptor stimulation by...

  10. Need Pedi Critical Careplan Help!

    discobunni posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am really stuck on this one and need help. Can someone please tell me what is wrong with my thinking? This is my first CarePlan for Pedi and I got a really hard patient. I have a 7 day old baby...

  11. Need Pedi Critical Careplan Help!

    discobunni replied to discobunni's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Jolie you were right it was PPH... I misunderstood and was looking in all the wrong places to try and understand it. Everything you listed fits to a "T" and I remember it said PPH, I don't know where...

  12. I've got a question about BP

    discobunni replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    systolic - first beat diastolic - last

  13. "Floating" an IV and other IV tips needed

    discobunni posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm on my 3rd semester and have yet to start a successful IV. Granted, I've only had 2 attempts and my pts were an elderly person and a dehydrated person....But still I feel rather disappointed in...

  14. Do you have to take ATI exams?

    discobunni replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Students

    What in the heck is an ATI exam????? Is it similar to the HESI's? At my college we take a HESI exam after each semester (3rd semester w/OB, Pedi & Psych there are 3 HESI's to take) We are not...

  15. Need help with prioritzing these Nur. Diag. for Nur. Pro. Paper please.

    discobunni replied to RNursingStudent's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Good question. Seems like joint stiffness would be chronic pain and the surgical incision would be acute pain. I don't know if you should combine both DX or do one of each.....Hmph. I would think...

  16. Need help with prioritzing these Nur. Diag. for Nur. Pro. Paper please.

    discobunni replied to RNursingStudent's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    First off, do you have a good NANDA careplan book? It is a textbook requirement for my school and I use it A LOT! If you don't have one, get one... If you do it has everything all laid out for you...

  17. Leukemia help with labs/vitals

    discobunni posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm doing a case study where a 4-yr old girl presents with fatigue and an elevated temperature. The PCP has found that the manifestations are consistent with an upper respiratory infection, but...

  18. Thinking of moving to Texas and need some help

    discobunni replied to Nurse red's topic in Texas Nursing

    what hospital is that?!?!?!? $50,000.00???? not $5,000.00? $50,000.00?????

  19. Thinking of moving to Texas and need some help

    discobunni replied to Nurse red's topic in Texas Nursing

    I live in Corpus and it was in the 80's today. There is a naval base here. We can have some chilly weather... it was in the 40's a few days last week. It's very common to use the heater in the...

  20. Care Plan Help: Rotovirus/Diarrhea

    discobunni replied to discobunni's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thank you Daytonite you are the BBBEESSSSTT! You make it so much more

  21. Prioritizing list of diagnoses

    discobunni replied to missninaRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thanx Daytonite I've already posted your list and the questions to my instructors' bulletin board to see what they have to say. You're always SOOO helpful, I'm so glad you're here to help all us...

  22. Care Plan Help Please!

    discobunni replied to Nurse2bNicole's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    OH...Daytonite beat me already!!

  23. Care Plan Help Please!

    discobunni replied to Nurse2bNicole's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm a student too...so don't know if this would be correct. But I am leaning toward Urinary retention r/t absence of urine output secondary to open processus lady partslis aeb urine leakage w/bladder...

  24. Prioritizing list of diagnoses

    discobunni replied to missninaRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    OH now I'm really confused!!! Based on Maslow's PAIN comes in LAST?!?!! We were taught that PAIN comes in right after the ABC's in prioritizing diagnoses? Also, that SAFETY should be at the top of...

  25. When is a child an adult with meds?

    discobunni replied to kimber1985's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hi there, I am not an RN yet, but my son weighs 70 lbs and has severe ADHD and CPP. He is on an adult dose of Focalin (40 mg qd) as well as several other drugs (risperdal, clonidine) and more!! His...