KEL2BanRN

I'm in my 4th week of NS. We had our first test last week. I'm still trying to get a grip on how to STUDY. I don't need "test taking strategies"... I've had tons and tons of that and I get all of that. My problem is adjusting how to STUDY differe...

I know this might seem like a dumb question, but we're just learning how to document findings. My resident has edematous, dry, and very purple ankles. How do I document that (the color)? I asked my instructor and his answer was "how ever you think...

I didn't want medical advice with the post I just put on here. I know enough to not seek medical advice on a message board. All she wanted to know is if it's possible that the vaccine came out of the needle or what when he got the injection. I've ...

Floor nurses have time to surf the 'Net??? I'm actually surprised. LOL I'm still just a student, but from what I see in clinicals, I can't imagine nurses having time to sit at the desk and play online.

Mine is $78 per credit hr, I think.

My school is on quarters. The ADN program is 7 quarters. We have to take a HESI after 4th quarter. If you don't score high enough, you have to stay after summer quarter for 3 weeks of remediation. Then you take another HESI before graduation, and...

We had skills testing about 3 weeks ago. We have 35 skills and didn't know what we'd draw until you walked into the testing room. You draw 3 skills and had 25 minutes to complete all of them. Then last week we were tested on head-to-toe assessmen...

I have my final exam tomorrow, then I'm finished. I ran out of steam 2 weeks ago. Lost all motivation. I have a 91 in the class, and I'm burned out. Done. Stick a fork in me. LOL I can't bring myself to study for my final. I'm ready for a bre...

Here's what I just found: Q. Why does the tubing on my stethoscope become stiff and rigid? A. The tubing used in all 3M™ Littmann® Stethoscopes is a PVC (polyvinylchloride) tubing that becomes hard when exposed for long periods of time to the lip...

I'm in central Ohio, about an hour north of Columbus. RN's start at $19.95/hr here. BSN will get you a quarter more. Shift diff is $3. We have one hospital in my town, so you have to drive about half hour to get to others... there are about 3 wit...

We're on quarters, and all I have left is my last clinical today tomorrow, and my final on Monday. WOOT!!!

Kelly, risk-for diagnoses do not have AEB, because if there were s/s, they wouldn't be at risk, they'd already have it. Make sense? So, if they don't show s/s, but are at risk for it, you just put at risk for XXX related to XXX. I hope this helps!...

I have a pocket sized Nursing Diagnosis book... let me look at it... OK it's actually called "Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales" 9th edition, by Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, and Alice C. Geissler-Murr. P...

This is my second day of charting. We're at a nursing home and have same resident each week for now. This is for practice, we will be charting in the actual chart next week. How does this look/sound? 11/09/07 0710 Supine in recliner, resting /c...

Yes, thank you!! :)

Could you be more specific on the abbreviations? So far I've used all of those before and my CI has said it was fine. In fact he's the one who has told me to use most of them. I did do head to toe, and I stick in abnormal things where they happene...

LOL Thanks. I guess what they're doing with us right now is getting us used to doing full head to toe assessments and learning how to document. I'm really lost on how to document, and I wonder just how everyone automatically knows how to do it...?...

Hm, My CI is the one who told me to use UE for the upper extremities. Is there a list somewhere of abbreviations we can't use? As for the PU dressing, I am not to remove it - it was just put on that morning and I'm just supposed to assess the dress...

OK, here I go... I'm putting this out here so y'all can tear me up. This is only my second attempt at documenting, and we don't use any charting books so I am really bad at how to phrase things. Anyone wanna critique me?? (PS - this isn't somethi...

Yeah I realized just AFTER I posted that I forgot to put "call light in reach" with my entries!! DOH!! LOL

There's a sticky on the other forum called "STUDY strategies"... I think it's on the Nursing Student Assistance Forum. HTH.

AHA! Finally someone else who has/understands my dilemma. I'm going thru this exact same thing right now. I know *what* to chart, I just don't know HOW and no one teaches us. You just fumble through. Like the other poster said - for something as...

::THUD:: You just described me to a T. My friend in NS is just like me, so we stick together, LOL. People joke that we're both "anal", and that we do so well (as if that's a bad thing). I can't help it, this is just my personality and I don't try...

Thank you, that is very helpful! I need examples, and no books I see really have very many.

Daytonite, thank you! Yes, I explained it in a previous post. (about the inability to void)