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  1. Need help with careplan

    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. If you had a neonate who was hypothermic, hypotensi...
  2. Case Study #2

    Ischemia takes hours to show up after the initial infarct. The initial CT may show no abnormalities.
  3. Case Study #2

    I want others to explain. I'm that annoying nurse who asks students for rationale.
  4. Case Study #2

    Why are we doing the labs ya'll suggested?
  5. Real life examples ; Roles of a nurse

    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, from cleaning wounds to assessing patients to admi...
  6. My initial instinct is yes, but what's preventing management from slowly inching back to the (sub) standard conditions?
  7. Prioritizing Nursing Diagnosis

    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 the diagnoses so you can determine if they are the m...
  8. Prioritizing Nursing Diagnosis

    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 NANDA book handy but what are the defining characteris...
  9. How is ER charting different than floor?

    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 and fast on a benign belly pain or one nurse's so...
  10. Real life examples ; Roles of a nurse

    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 nurses do in clinicals and what you've learned about nu...
  11. Determining HR on strip (NCLEX)

    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 the start of one P and the start of the next P) and...
  12. Trouble with relating medical dx to nursing dx

    So this might be part of the care plan :)
  13. Trouble with relating medical dx to nursing dx

    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 home?
  14. Trouble Choosing a Capstone

    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 because of the lack of NICUs). The ICU will teach you...
  15. CSICU same as CVICU? Interview HELP!

    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 nonsurgical patients (MI, CHF). And that's not counting th...