solneeshka

solneeshka BSN, RN

PACU, Surgery, Acute Medicine

Member

  • Content

    292

  • Visitors

    9,152

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    1

All Content by solneeshka

  1. Care plan...Help!!

    solneeshka replied to bri2012's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When I read your description of your patient, I'm worried about stroke more than anything! I know you can't put that as a nursing diagnosis, but something like "risk for impaired tissue perfusion"...

  2. Help with post-op CABG nursing diagnosis

    solneeshka replied to mandyc8047's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    CABG is supposed to be a palliative treatment (technically). This guy's had 4 of them?! Sounds like what he needs is hospice

  3. Please help with Maternal/newborn Assessment Questions?

    solneeshka replied to MomtoP's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The one thing I remember about what to do if you have to deliver a baby in an emergency is that once the baby is born, set it to the mother's breast asap because the suckling with stimulate the...

  4. What order for priority of nursing dx?

    solneeshka replied to pinkraven's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You need to balance what poses the greatest degree of risk to the patient with what is most likely to occur with the patient. In my nursing school, we were beat over the head with "pain never killed...

  5. Critical Thinking Help

    solneeshka replied to Azure1213's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Ignore the poster above. (People ought to be able to post here asking for help without getting snotty comments. She didn't say she needs help with thinking, she said she needs help with *critical*...

  6. need help with prioritizing nursing diagnosis...

    solneeshka replied to miniangel729's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think this is a great care plan! But I don't work with babies, so I'll toss in that disclaimer :-) The only things I might change would be to add "r/t increased work of nutritional intake" to #3...

  7. Diverticulitis CarePlan

    solneeshka replied to jrfortis's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If the patient has intestinal contents spilling into her abdomen, and she already has a fever, my first concern is for sepsis. She may have impaired tissue, which isn't good, but if she has sepsis,...

  8. Please help important decision

    solneeshka replied to anne danielle's topic in General Students

    You might like surg tech, but there is not likely to be a lot of overlap with the coursework that you've already done and it doesn't pay as well as nursing. My first thought was respiratory therapist....

  9. What areas of nursing to choose?

    solneeshka replied to dizzyray822's topic in General Students

    Yeah, if you want med-surg, you'll get med-surg! Tele is a good 2nd choice, then maybe oncology, ortho, transplant, any of those areas will have similarities with general med-surg. But I guarantee you...

  10. Is clinical rotation "Murphey's Law" following you too?

    solneeshka replied to Certifiable's topic in General Students

    The most important things you'll be learning at this point will apply pretty much regardless of where you actually end up working. Just take each area for what you have to learn from

  11. OB RN with ED experience?

    solneeshka replied to star77's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree with the above poster. There's no reason why you couldn't work L&D, but probably not without going full-time for a while until you're off orientation, because there will almost surely be...

  12. 8-hour shifts?

    solneeshka posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone know of RN positions in the St. Louis area that offer 8-hour (day)

  13. Completion Time

    solneeshka replied to msu2011's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It does help with that, msu2011. If a given figure or ratio doesn't cancel out a unit that you need to have canceled out on the right side of the equal sign, then you don't need it for the problem. It...

  14. Pediatric Dosage Calculation Question

    solneeshka replied to crissik's topic in General Students

    My point is that if someone is getting 952.5 mg of something, then whether you round to 953 mg or 952 mg is immaterial, even in peds. At that volume, even rounding all the way up to 1,000 mg, the...

  15. Medical words that make you cringe.

    solneeshka replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    When in

  16. Pediatric Dosage Calculation Question

    solneeshka replied to crissik's topic in General Students

    This is an interesting theoretical discussion! I'd like to see someone try to actually provide 952.5 mg of *anything*! I don't think you could measure even water that precisely, let alone a pill. The...

  17. ADN to BSN to CRNA = Realistic Goal?

    solneeshka replied to ILstudentnurse's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I work for a very large facility and we do hire ADNs into the ICU. They favor BSNs all around, but it can happen. If you can't get into an ICU then I would go for med-surg. ED and ICU are both...

  18. Instructor giving me low acuity patients

    solneeshka replied to cogath's topic in General Students

    I only had the opportunity to insert one foley my entire nursing school career, and that's because I sharked it from a nurse who was about to put one in a patient that wasn't even mine! There will be...

  19. Medical words that make you cringe.

    solneeshka replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    I once had a co-worker refer to a patient's scrotum as his "ball sack" (can I say that on this forum?). This was *in the room,* patient awake and sentient! It was the funniest thing I'd ever heard....

  20. Medical words that make you cringe.

    solneeshka replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    I work in eye surgery and we slice on into that eyeball every day! It's awesome!!! I have a co-worker who has worked in eye surgery for over a decade and still cannot deal with an eyeball in a cup...

  21. Issues placing a bedpan

    solneeshka replied to shippoRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Bedpans got a lot easier for me once I realized that most of our patients need to have their legs held apart in order for the urine to escape and not just funnel up to their bellies. A pillow between...

  22. Completion Time

    solneeshka replied to msu2011's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You're both right. In the interest of teaching you to fish (instead of giving you a fish :)), here's an easy way to set up ANY IVF calc problem. 1) On the left side of the equal sign, put what it is...

  23. Offer retracted

    solneeshka replied to JeanettePNP's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Jeanette73, that's awful! I'm so sorry that you're having this experience. The hospital should have communicated better if they indeed did not have the position to offer to you for sure. Keep looking!...

  24. issues in specialization in nursing

    solneeshka replied to Norazizahi's topic in General Nursing

    I would think the biggest issue is that the more you specialize, the less opportunity you have to move into some other aspect of nursing in the future. For all of those new grads who think that...

  25. Computer charting

    solneeshka replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

    I'm confused. Don't you have to chart in whatever system your hospital