Amy2005

Amy2005

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  1. McMurray's Test

    Amy2005 posted a topic in Orthopedic

    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...

  2. about contact precautions

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  3. Activities for Confused Adults

    Amy2005 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    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...

  4. how old are your references?

    Amy2005 replied to ajaxgirl's topic in General Nursing

    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

  5. Is this school worht it???

    Amy2005 replied to xLovelyMakeupx's topic in LPN to RN

    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...

  6. rights of patients

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  7. Please help me in making my Nursing care Plan

    Amy2005 replied to mkwatro's topic in General Students

    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

  8. diagnosis and records

    Amy2005 replied to Amy2005's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  9. diagnosis and records

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  10. diagnosis and records

    Amy2005 replied to Amy2005's topic in General Nursing

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

  11. transfusions and tubing

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Students

    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...

  12. transfusions and tubing

    Amy2005 replied to Amy2005's topic in General Students

    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...

  13. bruits and hypertension

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  14. Montreal graduate wants to work in Toronto!

    Amy2005 replied to feiyue's topic in International Nursing

    check with the College of Nurses (located in Toronto on Davenport

  15. oxygen question

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  16. more about flushing tubing and/or lock

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Still trying to get all the steps included. After a medication is given (using a minibag or Bard mini-infuser), then is the tubing flushed? This would flush the lock too. Then the tubing would...

  17. angina/heart attack and chewing ASA

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Students

    Why is ASA to be chewed when given for angina or heart attack? I've tried to find how this works - the ASA should reduce the severity of heart attack, it should help reduce clot formation. How does it...

  18. flushing IV tubing between medications

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    After one IV medication has been completed, and the tubing sits, still attached to the minibag, then is the tubing or just the saline lock supposed to be flushed before the next medication is started?...

  19. urinary catheterization question

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Students

    after the urinary catheter has been inserted and is draining urine, the maximum amount (according to agency policy) that can be drained is 750 mL. If urine is still draining, then the catheter would...

  20. trach care question

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is a question about when to change the sterile gloves. After cleansing the stoma, the outer cannula, the face plate, the inner cannula, replacing the inner cannula, and applying the new trach...

  21. PCA pump error

    Amy2005 replied to BeckysMom1952's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for this topic about PCAs. I don't know the answer to your question - if it is just a med error or if the nurses should be fired. All I can offer is my opinion - that I consider this to be a...

  22. steps for collection of AFB specimen (TB)

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm asking - in order to go through the steps in detail, to make sure that I have thought this through: 1) gather specimen container and put the label on it first 2) wear mask and gloves 3) bring a...

  23. PCAs

    Amy2005 posted a topic in General Students

    I've not had instruction in the use of PCAs, and this is a device frequently used in the hospital. Although there was some opportunity to observe the use of them, and several opportunities to...

  24. PCAs

    Amy2005 replied to Amy2005's topic in General Students

    thankyou - doesn't seem to be any instructions in the link for use of the PCA. Still searching. Any more ideas about where to find

  25. PCAs

    Amy2005 replied to Amy2005's topic in General Students

    thanks for the links, the ones that I saw did look like the one in the first linK. What make is it?