APBT mom

APBT mom LPN, RN

Med/Surg, Tele, IM, OB/GYN, neuro, GI

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  1. LPN to RN

    Classes are completely online and I believe that Excelsior either sets up clinicals where you live or you do it yourself. I've heard of some nurses just scheduling a day or two at the facility they...
  2. Excelsior FL nursing grad endorsement dillema

    I don't think the problem that you went to Excelsior it's that you don't have any clinical experience (from what I know about the program clinicals are very short, correct me if I'm wrong) and they...
  3. JEHOVAH'S WITNESS age consent?

    What's the hospitals policy? They usually follow the law and that's anyone that's 18 yr old or older unless they are unable to make their own decisions (mentally underdeveloped). Or are you asking...
  4. would you go the LPN route?

    That's what I did. I graduate from my LPN program in March and I'm applying to the RN programs after that. I completed all the pre reqs that I need for one program and I need three others for another...
  5. Care plan question

    i should have reworded that. what i meant was i know which ones i want to use but i wanted to see if the objectives for those nanda's were the symptoms that my patient was
  6. Care plan question

    I have to do a case study during my L&D rotation and was wondering if there are any care plan books that have a section included in them for
  7. Daycare when you have a 12 hr shift?

    I know where I live there is ONE daycare that is open 24 hrs a day. It's down the street from one of the hospitals so that's where they get the majority of their business from. It's two stories and...
  8. My sister is on life support

    I'm sorry for your loss. Just remember that you have someone up above looking out for you
  9. Care plan question

    Yeah I went and checked the care plan books at Borders out today. The had one book that was dedicated to OB and peds but it was almost $70 and I wasn't willing to spend that on one case study. I did...
  10. newborn careplan

    How was the baby holding it's temp? Is the baby being breast fed or bottle fed? If it was a male was he circumsized? How about the condition of the umbilical cord? What were the lab results especially...
  11. Online Nursing Drug Guide?

    Davis Drug Guide's is drugguide.com. It has meds on it that the book doesn't
  12. Need Clarification on Prenatal Visits...

    Where I use to work and the MD around there did it like this once a month up to 26 wks twice a month up to 36 wks every wk until delivery If your book says 24 but the notes say 34 it's probably a...
  13. Sent home from clinicals :(

    I'm glad that everything went well for you at clinicals today. It's sounds like you were and are very busy right now. Hopefully the instructor was just having a bad day and you were the person she let...
  14. Care plan question

    I have the Gulanik & Myers that's why I was wondering if others had a section related specifically to OB. I know what NANDA's I'm going to use but I was just curious on how I should do the...
  15. My sister is on life support

    I'm sorry. Just know that even though you're not there your sister knows you loved
  16. Gravida/Para GTPAL... HELP!

    It drives me boonkers. I don't want to be one of those students who say we'll I've done this for such and such time so I just nod my head and smile knowing that if I ever work on a L&D floor I'll...
  17. During school, did you see anything gruesome

    I agree it's not only gruesome it's also gag worthy especially during trach
  18. Gravida/Para GTPAL... HELP!

    It irks me too because I worked in OB and we always counted the current pregnancy. My instructor based it on the fact that you don't know what the outcome is going to be so don't include it. Which I...
  19. I'm sad :( Nursing is Hard!!

    I see that you passed so congrats!!! I broke sterile field when I did my wet to dry dressing. I had put on my sterile gloves and then started measuring the wound (oops). I got finished and went to...
  20. During school, did you see anything gruesome

    The only "gruesome" thing that I can think of was helping a RN change a patients linens that was bleeding out. Pt was a DNR and just rolled over and went to sleep after we were done. I was asked if I...
  21. Sent home from clinicals :(

    I'm sorry that you had a bad experience in clinicals today but I don't feel that you should have been sent home for not knowing that the patient had pneumonia when that wasn't the admitting diagnosis....
  22. Help Please? "Risk for" ND is bothering me...

    What was her H&H after delivery and after expelling the blood clots? If shes anemic from the delivery then you could use a dx for that a relate it to her
  23. IV calculations

    Since Daytonite answered the calc problem, the c is supposed to have a line over it, means with. Medical short hand written improperly another reason not to use abbreviations because when written...
  24. community health nursing

    A couple of years ago a mulch factory spontaneously combusted and had the horrible smoldering fire for a good three weeks off and on (FD couldn't put it out because the mountains of mulch were burning...
  25. Gravida/Para GTPAL... HELP!

    The correct way to do it would be P-2 because she only had 2 pre term deliveries (one which resulted in twins). Some instructors what it as the outcome of that delivery so she had to preterm births...