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  1. MATH>>Help please.. If i dont pass this class I wont get to start clinical!!!!!

    tlc2u replied to manage1121's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    please show "how" you worked out these problems (show your work). until i can see what you have done i can't see where you are going wrong. also try to think through these in a logical manner to...

  2. Peds Math Help

    tlc2u replied to SN09's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    the physician orders a child to receive lr iv at 2 times fluid maintenance for 6 hours. the child weighs 48.6 lbs (22.091 kg) how many drops per minute will you infuse the iv fluids (tubing gtt factor...

  3. Peds Math Help

    tlc2u replied to SN09's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    see this link to a post by (chare) where fluid maintenance for children is discussed. if the link doesn't work i cut the info needed and pasted it just below the link....

  4. Remembering Cranial Nerves

    tlc2u replied to ballerinagurl's topic in General Students

    i am a very visual and kinesthetic learner, so i learn best by looking at pictures and for the cranial nerves i learned best by practicing the different tests for the nerves. here are some of the...

  5. Does any one know

    tlc2u replied to blynn9173's topic in General Students

    I don't know any mnemonics for this but maybe just practice finding your own pulses (work from head to toe like sissyboo suggested and think of ways you can remember the names and locations.) I...

  6. MATH>>Help please.. If i dont pass this class I wont get to start clinical!!!!!

    tlc2u replied to manage1121's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    that is a good question do you go to a us school? what guidelines or resources has your school recommended for you to learn this math? i attended us schools and though we encountered drams in our...

  7. Useful resources for ABGs anyone???

    tlc2u replied to RetrieverGirl's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    websites for abg interpretations http://realnurseed.com/abgm4.htm http://www.ekgusa.com/ceol/abgmap/abgindex.html http://www.coconino.edu/mbaker/divis...iles/frame.htm...

  8. I didn't know this could happen!

    tlc2u replied to MsLEE2121's topic in General Students

    When I attended an LPN program and a different school for an RN program I saw many classmates be failed out by clinical instructors. 1 because the instructor felt the student was too slow at a given...

  9. New to the world of Nursing, help please?

    tlc2u replied to FutureOBNurse2118's topic in General Students

    I just sent you an email. Respond back and I can send you a couple documents that might

  10. Failed 2 fundamentals tests!!!

    tlc2u replied to ohmylove's topic in General Students

    One of the chapters in the Saunders NCLEX book is a chapter on test taking strategies. Go to your local bookstore and look at a copy of the Saunders NCLEX there until you purchase your own. Read the...

  11. I need help passing Med-Surg!!!

    tlc2u replied to Victoria11's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Get the most recent Saunders NCLEX study guide. Read the chapter on test taking strategies. On one piece of notebook paper list each test taking strategy. At the end of the chapters in Saunders there...

  12. need idea for teaching goal

    tlc2u replied to kristak's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Read and understand about your patients main concern. Then for teaching you should always find out from the patient or in this case the mother, what they already know about the medical condition so...

  13. Problems with instructors

    tlc2u replied to somekitties's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When I was in LPN school we had one instructor who everyone would swear was Bipolar. The instructor was super nice one minute and blowing her top the next. Another one of our instructors who had...

  14. Help with care plan

    tlc2u replied to CMV1's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Altered skin integrity nursing diagnosis. If you fall down and scrape your knee, or you get a cut on your finger, what would you do to heal the cut and to prevent infection. This would be your...

  15. I need help with a care plan

    tlc2u replied to courtneypell's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i am not great at writing nursing diagnosis so i can not tell you the exact ones to write. however our instructors taught us that for the nursing diagnosis we had to look at what our patients current...

  16. Community health nursing diagnosis

    tlc2u replied to jwharry's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You didn't state any particular population or age group. Here are some ND's from my (2003-2004 Nanda list). Check them against a 2009 list to be sure they are still in use. If a patient had any of the...

  17. NCLEX help

    tlc2u replied to Namaste314's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Use the current Saunders NCLEX study guide. Read the chapter in it on test taking strategies. On just one sheet of notebook paper write down each of those test taking strategies. Use this papaer as...

  18. First test anxiety

    tlc2u replied to RetrieverGirl's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Don't spend too much time looking for resources on the internet etc. Use the most recent Saunders NCLEX study guide and read the material in it that corresponds to what you are studying in class and...

  19. Osmolality vs. Osmolarity

    tlc2u replied to bunneh's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    what is the difference between osmolality and osmolarity? the words can be used interchangeably. however they do mean sligthly different things. example for the osmolality and osmolarity of the...

  20. I'm really discouraged

    tlc2u replied to nakniwa's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I used a lot of pneumonics and visuals as well to supplement my learning in nursing school. I wonder if they were to take a survey that they may find many who struggle with learning nursing school...

  21. Help with cardiomegaly arrhythmias EKG interpretation

    tlc2u replied to RNstudentc/o2010's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    She had a pulse without a rhythm? What does that mean? Do you suppose whoever wrote that meant that she had a very thready or uneven pulse. Until you asked the question I was wondering what that...

  22. Help with cardiomegaly arrhythmias EKG interpretation

    tlc2u replied to RNstudentc/o2010's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    look at this picture of an ekg graph to understand this...

  23. Help with cardiomegaly arrhythmias EKG interpretation

    tlc2u replied to RNstudentc/o2010's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Sorry this message was not clear I rewrote it and posted

  24. Confused?

    tlc2u replied to 2bNurse-88's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i'm really confused as to how i'd use the nursing diagnosis handbook (ladwig, ackley), to look up nursing diagnosis. i have a p/t who overdosed, causing hypoxic encephalopathy, about 2 years ago. the...

  25. Math Assistance?!?!

    tlc2u replied to Starfish1's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    1. an iv of 500 ml lr is to infuse over 8 hours. the drop factor is 60 gtt/ml. how many ml’s will infuse per hour? 500/8*60 my answer is 62.5 ml/hr (which is correct as per answer sheet... how many...