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  1. Useless extra credit ....

    Hmm, I'd like it if my professors did that. I'm making a B, but I'd love an A. I know it's just a C to pass, but A's make me feel good. A little extra credit to fluff up my feathers a little after...
  2. is it possible to pass med surg or should I just quit

    No, really. You do need to find out what it is that is making you get these answers wrong. Is it a misinterpretation of the question? If you are understanding the concepts, and believe you have the...
  3. Is it HORRIBLE to get C's on a test?

    I'm seconding what others have said about changing your answers - it's generally not a good idea! The only two exceptions I'll make for changing an answer is if I accidentally answered "C" when I know...
  4. please help me figure this math problem out

    You're getting 10 what as your answer? Also, are you certain you've copied the question correctly? I'm confused as to why it would say "80 - 100 mg/kg/24 h q12" - is it over 24 hours or every 12...
  5. Method for clinicals - What is it I'm missing?

    Oh! The hospital has those, in addition to the paper charts. We have to get a nurse or somebody to print out anything that hasn't been added to the chart yet, which can be a bit difficult at times. As...
  6. Method for clinicals - What is it I'm missing?

    Thanks, you two. I'm going to try and see if I can adapt that timetable to my clinical day, BandAid. My clinical day is a bit shorter though, only from 0700-1300, and we leave the patient to go to...
  7. Studying for Med/surg

    Just hang in there, keep on doing what you're doing. Med-Surg is no joke. I'm in the same boat, I'll be getting my first B (if I keep up my current efforts and results) in Med-Surg this semester...
  8. Hi! In my program, we are not doing the cardio portion of Med-Surg until the very end, so I haven't gotten to that portion of the course that would probably be most useful to me in the unit where I...
  9. just for reference (I don't think I need the whole thing broken down for me, I have to do the work myself or I'll never learn anything, I just need help with the diagnosis part), here is the scenario...
  10. Help Choosing a Nursing Diagnosis.

    Ineffective Airway
  11. Help Choosing a Nursing Diagnosis.

    I think the card I have that lists the NANDA diagnoses is arranged in order of taxonomy. I'll have to check when I get home. I have to come up with a short-term goal. I am thinking about using...
  12. The last couple weeks of clinicals have been spent collecting patient data from the charts. I have my patient's history and lab values and medical diagnoses. She has a history of CVA and TIA,...
  13. Help Choosing a Nursing Diagnosis.

    Hmm, OK thanks. Well, I don't think an educated guess can hurt - that's all I'm going to be able to rely on for the test at the end of the semester. They're going to give us a scenario and expect us...
  14. Help Choosing a Nursing Diagnosis.

    (By the way, you might wonder why I'm focusing on Airway Clearance instead of Impaired Breathing - my professors aren't looking so much for a priority at this level as much as they want to see that we...
  15. Help Choosing a Nursing Diagnosis.

    Would it be OK to word it "Ineffective Airway Clearance R/T lung impairment" or "Ineffective Airway Clearance R/T impaired lung function" or something like that? How much leeway to we have in the...
  16. Help Choosing a Nursing Diagnosis.

    But am I supposed to look for a medical diagnosis? I'm so confused. I thought of pneumonia, and my classmate thought of TB, but ultimately at the end of the semester, we're supposed to take an exam...
  17. Can I use interventions that address the etiology of the diagnosis, not just the diagnosis directly? For example: "Ineffective Breathing Pattern R/T Pain and Fatigue AEB RR 24, BP 145/89, pain (2),...
  18. Hello! I am in my second semester, but my first semester of clinicals and my first time working with care plans. I have as homework the following scenario to work with, and a simple form on which to...
  19. Woohoo! She liked it! Sort of... and I went to an RN who's tutoring in my school's success center and she told me that when I'm given a scenario, and I don't know the client's baseline and stuff, not...
  20. How do we know that the regularly irregular pulse is abnormal? I read in my med-surg book that irregular heart rhythm is an age-related change caused by increase of size of the left
  21. Thanks, I'll go on that. I guess I was just confused because I'm still unfamiliar with how exactly to pick a nursing diagnosis. So you can still use a nursing diagnosis when you have only one of the...
  22. I seem to keep running in circles with this. Um... I think the fainting spell 3 months ago might have had something to do with the stroke, maybe it was a TIA, since those sometimes occur before a...
  23. Blind in both eyes, but how do they know?

    I'm no expert, just a student (and a new one at that!) so don't take me completely to heart, but my thinking is that perhaps they used a similar test to something they would use for an infant vision...