alaskalala

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1. New Grad preparing for Neuro ICU

   alaskalala replied to alikate's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

   VENTS. Majority of our patients are vented for part of, and in some cases, all of their stay with us. BP management is large, maybe largest. Sometimes that's all I'm doing for 12 hours, chasing BP....

2. K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala replied to alaskalala's topic in MICU, SICU

   Thank you to all who replied. What a great resource you are, tremendously helpful. I went back to my A&P text, reread Acid/Base, F&E, and Renal chapters - surprisingly: not much there....

3. Help, K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala replied to alaskalala's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I went back to my A&P textbook and reread the Acid/Base, F&E chapter, then the renal chapter. I'm still awash. This is one complex balancing act. Then you, Daytonite, come up with the...

4. Help, K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala replied to alaskalala's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Thanks, Anna, For confirming the intracellular shift thing. But if both calcium and potassium are shifting to the intracellular space because of the alkalosis, why replace one and not the other? I...

5. K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala posted a topic in MICU, SICU

   I'm a nursing student, doing clinical rotations in the MICU. I am digging into acid/base a little deeper than I have before. My patient had metabolic alkalosis with a little respiratory compensation,...

6. Help, K+ and metabolic alkalosis

   alaskalala posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I am digging into acid/base a little deeper than I have before. My patient had metabolic alkalosis with a little respiratory compensation, and her K+ was low (3.2), and Calcium was little low too....

7. PRIORITY diagnosis

   alaskalala replied to alaskalala's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Thanks, Jules, for the offer to help prioritize. I usually do o.k. there. It's providing a rationale for my choice that hangs me up. And thanks, Daytonite, for the expanded Maslow. I like how the...

8. PRIORITY diagnosis

   alaskalala posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Our weekly care plans ask for our top three nursing diagnoses. Out of the three, we are asked to choose the PRIORITY dx (and give a care plan for it), and to provide a rationale for why this...

9. Nursing school schools with short waiting lists

   alaskalala replied to bj2006's topic in General Students

   I was in your shoes last year. Impossibly long wait list where I lived (Alaska). I had no choice but to relocate and searched high and low, all over the US. Scarey! Wait lists everywhere, except a...

10. NLN Pre admission test questions here!

    alaskalala replied to cherryswitch's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Cherryswitch, I take my NLN pre-admission test in April, and I'm really nervous -- so much riding on one test. I have been working through the review guide by McDonald this week, but it would be a...

11. Questions about traveling to alaska

    alaskalala replied to Rightalong's topic in Travel

    Rightalong, I'm only pre-nursing student, so I can't help you with the agency questions, but I have lived in Alaska for almost 20 years, so I think I can contribute to your other questions. You can...