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Hi ! Our local hospital has started a new position, Patient Sitter, if you can believe it! Anyway, I believe this might be the key to working while studying....apparently the position entails staying with patient and helping them to meet their minor...

Hey everyone, Just wondering why OR nursing is frowned upon by sooooo many other nurses? Is this low opinion persistant throughout Drs. and anesthesiologists? To me it seems so interesting, like no other job in nursing and I just can't wrap my head...

The ADN program at Hacc is rigorous. You can expect by the second or third semester to be spending ten to twelve hours per care plan from Tues. clinicals which is due Thurs. morning. Plan ahead for tests, and you will definitely be spending more th...

Hi everyone, just wanted to know if anyone cares to share what exactly you did in your first year ( semester) in clinicals? All details are appreciated! I start Aug 19 with clinicals and am trying to be mentally prepared for what will be coming my ...

Hey all, Been assigned a case study for Peds.... Would appreciate any insight, but I will tell you what I have thought of thus far and am trying to narrow it to top two choices.....We were to try to come up with possible Dx and tests we might anticip...

Nope, it was not in the initial info, I am just so glad that this thing was not graded, but really, part of me could say "a bit of a waste of time" and another part says, "I really learned alot, but geez I wish all of this would have been given to us...

Ok, we have been given "the rest of the story" by our instructor... Apparently, when the child finally got to a ped. GI, that is who zeroed in on constipation, and an abd xray was done, which showed significant fecal matter in the intestines..... Our...

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Doesn't this make you miss nursing school sooo very much?

I agree, and i am just a student....I mean, you are a peds. nurse, have you ever, ever ran across a case of persistant regurgitation whose cause was constipation??? And really, for months this had went on, and wouldn't the kid had c/o bloating, diste...

Well, I turned it in, thanks to everyone who helped me think it thru...I put as my first probable dx slow gastic motility and that tests that could be anticipated would include a gastic motility study, and a 24 hour pH study as well as endoscopic eva...

Curious how family dynamics might cause painless regurgitation so frequently? In any event, the paper stated he lives at home with both his parents, two older brothers and a puppy. Both parents accompianed child to appt. and appeared concerned, both...

Sorry, I guess I left out some info I didn't think would be important, apparently his reflux when treated at two either went away or was so slight that it seemed to have gone away until recently??? As far as tubes, I'm not sure but I thought I had r...

Ah, yes the chest film!! What about a plain abdominal xray to check for a megacolon or fecal block???Others meds that might be tried include,,,, Reglan, which speeds motility, erythromycin, to speed,,, BUT I am confounded by which other med would be ...

Hey, good job with the spelling, I always use the initials,, Lungs presently clear, no cough presently, occasional hoarseness, occasional sore throat but no C/O pain....Dentition showing no etching/erosion....

I'll give it whirl, thanks so much for your help..... A. Slow gastic motility......tests include a gastric emptying study B. Hiatal Hernia.....a barium swallow study , perhaps a EGD C. Eosiniphic Gastritis....Scope with biopsy looking for elevated ...

Thanks!Boy, that's something you don't hear too often in nursing school.... It mentions he'd had two Bronchitis in a course of two months just prior to the time period Also in his history, there is quite a significant hx of rsv, pneumonias and bronch...

His wt is within normal for age and height, nurtition seems fine, and growth and devel also appeared nonremarkable. I know, I know, it does seem as though a N Dx would be what they want, but they do like to throw us these little exercises. I don't k...

I am going to have to go with either A. Weak LES or B. Allergies. AGHHHH.

Well, these drugs all in one way or another alter the amount of acid produced or present in the stomach....Perhaps these drugs arent' working because the amount of acid is NOT the problem.... I am leaning on an anatomical problem, perhaps the LES is ...

No, not a nursing care plan, our instructor just called it a case study, we've had to do these things before, which I DON"T like because we are not training to be Drs. and diagnosis people, but this is what they want.... I think they are trying to se...

Hey fellow students Can I just say Thank Goodness this semester is OVer,well almost, just the final to go, but am soooo glad to be done with my web surfing nasty CI and hope that I never ever ever have another CI as bad as what we just endured.:icon_...

I just started a new rotation with a new instructor. I have only had one experience with her so far. But I would just like input about her surfing the net at travel pages during clinicals. :typing I have never had this kind of experience before so ...

Ok, So I am second semester of a four semester ADN program and I am loving clinicals which we have every Tues and Thurs now. So I was at the nursing station looking at my pt. chart when a fellow student came to me with a question. She had the same ...

Thanks for the suggestion, but it does become quite difficult to mind my own business when it starts to involve ME. I tend also to try to not cause trouble for others, including pts. in the hospital. Thanks for your input.