Amy2005

Amy2005

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  1. about contact precautions

    When a patient is on droplet & contact precautions and the specimen results are not yet back (the patient has a respiratory infection) - this means that anyone entering the patient's room must wear gown, gloves, mask, goggles. Why is it okay for...
  2. how old are your references?

    Keep those references - believe me - they come in handy at a later date. Even now, for me, I am using as many of my written references and evaluations for another purpose.
  3. Is this school worht it???

    before getting involved with any educational facility, find out everything about the program. Find out about the clinical components - like when will clinical occur? (some of these programs have terrible arrangements for their clinicals - so you en...
  4. rights of patients

    When a patient is competent, then the patient can accept or refuse treatment. What source actually explains the circumstances of a patient right to refuse or situations when health care providers or other authoritiy would have the right to insist th...
  5. Please help me in making my Nursing care Plan

    how about 'impaired physical mobility r/t painful joint" - does he have self-care deficit? Or chronic pain? Or risk for imbalanced nutritional status: less than body requirements?
  6. McMurray's Test

    This is the test for checking torn meniscus. I have been searching Google to find a more detailed description of how the test is performed. My textbook has a short description, but I am not certain about how to "push a valgus (inward) stress on the k...
  7. diagnosis and records

    Actually, this is a patient who went to ER from home, then was sent from ER to LTC. Such an abrupt change, no longer able to go back home, and asking "what was the cause of the problem?" I don't know what the medical staff said or did not say re: ...
  8. diagnosis and records

    Thanks. For the patient to request the chart/diagnosis - who to ask? Ask medical recoords? Sounds reasonable to send a letter.
  9. diagnosis and records

    When an elderly patient, transferred to a long-term care facility, wants to find out their diagnosis (that caused them to go into hospital emergency), unsure if the doctor saw them while in the hospital, how can the patient find out the diagnosis?
  10. transfusions and tubing

    okay - and this would mean using another bag of NS (emptied in order for it to receive the backflush from the NS that is already hanging). It would probably be okay then to just use that new NS and hang it, to replace the blood unit empty bag, and ...
  11. transfusions and tubing

    The blood administration set can be used for 2 units, as long as they are given in rapid succession and the tubing is flushed with saline in between. When using the blood admin set that is specifically the kind with the cassette for the infusion pum...
  12. Montreal graduate wants to work in Toronto!

    check with the College of Nurses (located in Toronto on Davenport Road)
  13. bruits and hypertension

    The textbook that I am looking at says to assess carotid, renal, ischial, or femoral bruits. Where is an ischial bruit found, if there is one? The others that are mentioned are ones that I have instructions about, but not for ischial. My searchin...
  14. Activities for Confused Adults

    This is a request for ideas for some activities that an older confused adult could participate in, during the day, while sitting in a wheelchair. It was suggested by one person that folding towels/facecloths is something that they could do. Any mor...
  15. oxygen question

    What is meant by "domiciliary oxygen"? I've been checking on google for an explanation - haven't found a clear definition. My book mentions it in terms of its being used for fifteen hours/day and to achieve SaO2 greater than 90%