Guest 360983

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1. Need help with careplan

   Guest 360983 replied to dovelove's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   A nurse who is much smarter than me told me that the elderly are like babies--neither group compensates well and both have initial presentations that are very different from the healthy young adult....

2. Case Study #2

   Guest 360983 replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Ischemia takes hours to show up after the initial infarct. The initial CT may show no

3. Case Study #2

   Guest 360983 replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I want others to explain. I'm that annoying nurse who asks students for

4. Case Study #2

   Guest 360983 replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Why are we doing the labs ya'll

5. Real life examples ; Roles of a nurse

   Guest 360983 replied to unknowngenius10's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   That's a fairly tough assignment for a pre nursing student. When you mention a nurse cleaning wounds as a provider, I think you're on track. To me, providers do stuff. Nurses do a variety of things,...

6. Would you take a $3 hr pay decrease for better ratios and working conditions?

   Guest 360983 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   My initial instinct is yes, but what's preventing management from slowly inching back to the (sub) standard

7. Prioritizing Nursing Diagnosis

   Guest 360983 replied to Khalesi25's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Good! Now grab your NANDA book and make sure your diagnoses are in it. I know risk for PE isn't one. I imagine there's a nursing way to say it. Make sure to look at the defining characteristics for...

8. Prioritizing Nursing Diagnosis

   Guest 360983 replied to Khalesi25's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Use Maslow's hierarchy to help you prioritize. In the ER you get the highest priority if you have a life or limb threat. EDIT: I think you're missing some important risk diagnoses. I don't have a...

9. How is ER charting different than floor?

   Guest 360983 replied to tarotale's topic in Emergency

   I don't chart care plans. I chart my initial assessment, reassessments per floor policy, reassessments when change in condition is noted, interventions and discharge instructions. This could be simple...

10. Real life examples ; Roles of a nurse

    Guest 360983 replied to unknowngenius10's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Tell me about what you think of when you read provider. Next, tell me what you think of when you read manager. Seriously, write this down before you go futher. Now think about what you have seen...

11. Determining HR on strip (NCLEX)

    Guest 360983 replied to actsc1v8's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm lazy so I count the number of complete QRS complexes in a 6 second strip and multiply by 10. You can measure the number of large boxes between the same part of consecutive complexes (say between...

12. Trouble with relating medical dx to nursing dx

    Guest 360983 replied to AQEELSMOM's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    So this might be part of the care plan

13. Trouble with relating medical dx to nursing dx

    Guest 360983 replied to AQEELSMOM's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    What did your assessment show? What did the nurse spend most of her time doing with the patient? Why is the patient hospitalized and not getting antibiotics via PICC at

14. Trouble Choosing a Capstone

    Guest 360983 replied to desiruns's topic in General Students

    If you like sick kiddos, don't underestimate the value of an ICU or ER rotation. The ER sees every age group, including pediatrics (unless you have a children's hospital in the area, which I doubt...

15. CSICU same as CVICU? Interview HELP!

    Guest 360983 replied to Nurse7970's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    When my MIL had cardiac surgery, the hospital she was in had a cardiac surgery ICU and a separate cardiac ICU. One took all the surgical patients (CABG, valve replacements) and the other took...