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  1. help w/ nursing dx/formulating my thoughts

    She is only hydrochlorothiazide, most likely because of the HTN. No edema at all, no crackles in her lungs...no s/s that would would be positive for hypervolemia. It's possible she has some CHF...
  2. This is driving me crazy! Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this but I'm struggling with coming up with appropriate nursing diagnoses. For my med-surg class, we have to write a fluid and...
  3. lab values

    What is the name of the
  4. What grade is "passing" in your nursing school??

    My school requires a
  5. lab values

    I don't know any mnemonics but I'm hoping someone will share some...otherwise I just find notecards help with learning
  6. Here's my advice: 1) get a good NCLEX book. I recommend Saunders or NCLEX-RN: Reviews & Rationales. The Reviews & Rationales book is great but if you're a visual learner, the book might not...
  7. What's the toughest part of A&PI?

    I would have to say learning all of the bones, muscles, and the nervous system. The endocrine is a pain in the butt,
  8. Bathing Classmates and Other Personal Boundaries?

    My school does not allow us to do any sort of invasive procedure on other students. Instead, we have dummies and sim men/babies and "injecta-pads," etc. When we learned how to do perform a bed bath,...
  9. University of Akron Accelerated BSN

    I'm not really sure on how many students they admit into the accelerated program, but I'm in the basic BSN program there and we originally had 160 (some dropped/failed though... ). I'm currently in a...
  10. usually around 6...but it just
  11. What type of drug tests do nursing schools do?

    surprisingly, my school did not do a drug test; however, our student handbook says that they can do random drug testing, I guess. I've only ever had drug tests for my job - I work as a nurse tech in...
  12. maternity/postpartum nurse...if you work in labor & delivery (L&D), that would make you a labor & delivery nurse. I'm a nursing student but I've already had by OB rotation in both...
  13. Fluid and electrolyte help

    Daytonite, THANK YOU!!! These will definitely come in handy for my upcoming nursing class this semester...we focus a lot on
  14. Uniform badges: which sleeve?

    Our patches are sewn on the right
  15. Doing practice questions I think helps you study and helps you learn the material, but in the end you need to actually understand the material and learn how to apply it to nursing