Corlee

This is awesome, I wish I had had it back during my first clinicals!! I think all freshman students or first semester students just starting clinicals should give it a try. Our school has something similar to this for the 1st semester in the form of a 12 page packet you had to fill out...now we are charting for real...Just so everyone knows the more you do it the easier it gets!!

OK...so correct me if I am wrong...but I think the answer to #1 is not a safe dose. They said it was 25-50mg/kg/hr (I think this hour should actually be per day) divided into 4 doses (q6h) 21 Lbs = 9.5 kg 50mg(50kg)=475mg (per day) 475mg/4(divided doses) = 118.8mg Q6H is the max per dose. I am pretty sure sure we need more info to answer questions 2 &3. Just my thoughts... :-):)

It is an obstruction of the frontal sinuses. it causes bones to remodel and become enlarged which causes the blockage, as far as I understand it. This is the first time I have heard of it when my instructor assigned this to me.

I agree with the self image and pain. I can not use a "risk for" diagnosis, my instructors do not like those. This is not his first craniotomy, he had one about 10 years ago after the initial pedestrian vs car accident. I believe his pain is under control because they have taken him off of morphine and he is only getting PO tylenol now. I will see what I can find about the self image and I am sure he has to still be in pain so that one should be able to fit in as well! Thanks for your help!

I am working on my clinical write up for a patient with Mucocele. He has no co-morbidities and had a craniotomy a few days ago to correct the mucocele cysts. I am having a hard time finding a nursing diagnosis to go with such. Mucocele is not listed in my Nursing Diagnosis Handbook (Ackley) and I am not for sure what other route to go down seeing as to how he does not have any co-morbidities to concentrate on. PLEASE HELP!!!

Does anyone know what the easiest way to solve this problem is? Thank you! Your client ate 60% of a 16 oz steak. The steak is 45% protein. How many grams of protein did your client eat?

Well, I am already starting to CSON this Fall, actually in a little over 2 weeks so really it is to late to try to go anywhere else. I have several friends that have graduated from CSON and gone on to TTU and or LCU and received their BSn with no problems. it is most liekly that covenant will be accredited by LCU before my class graduates...at least that is what the CEO of Covenant has told us, as employees. I am an employee at Covenant already and have been for several years. I have been witness to the layoffs here, it is very rarely that they were nurses. I think CSON is a good fit for me and I do not plan to stay in Lubbock much longer after I finish nursing school. Good luck to you! :-)

My boss too!! Any of the pharmacists i have talked to are like, WHAT??? lol. Glad to see another pharm tech/nursing student in the mix!!

I have heard that they are trying to become affiliated with LCU as well. One of the ladies that I work with said that in the Covenant town hall meeting (for covenant employees) to meet the new CEO of the hospital, the new CEO was asked about this and he said that they were in fact working on it and it would be in the next year or so....IDK. That would be really nice to be able to just get the BSN thru CSON/LCU. Are you going to CSON this fall as well??

The biggest reason that ampules are used is that it is cheaper for the pharmacy department to purchase an ampule over a vial, as well as for Hospira to manufacturer the drugs in teh amps as well.

I always say what I need over what I have. You need 200mg of medication and what you have is a concentration of 100mg/ml. So 200mg/100mg= 2ml Hope that helps!

I think they are absolutely necessary as well. I am just starting nursing school this Fall but have been a Pharmacy IV Technician for over 5 years and we always filter anything that comes out of a glass ampule prior to being injected into the IV bag. We also filter anything that is going to be used intrathecally, I.E. a Methotrexate IT, ARC IT, etc. I guess its just a better safe than sorry thing in my book. I did work with a man who was a pharmacist in India (technician in America) and he had another technique he thought worked just as well as a filter needle. He always got in trouble for using it though.

I graudated at 23 with my first B.S. degree in another field, Will be starting the nursing program this fall and will be 26 (27 in October). I know of one other guy that will be in my nursing class. Who knows, there may be more when we get to orientation.

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHEW HEW...I found out that I got into both ADN schools I applied to!!! Naturally I chose the one closest to where I live! I am soo excited to get started...ordered all of my books on Amazon the other day...now just waiting for August 2nd to get here so I can get started!! CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN ACCEPTED and GOOD LUCK TO THOSE STILL WAITING!!!