tiffanyleigh0212

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  1. Floated to Tele, no experience...

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to RNewbie's topic in Cardiac

    our hospital doesn't allow pulled nurses on our floor unless they are from another tele unit and have been through the certifications. if your hospital does allow that, i think they should at least...

  2. Rhythm interpretation a fib

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to lolakbolak's topic in Cardiac

    a fib is the absence of Pwaves, so it could actually be regular and still be a

  3. Patient ratios progressive care units

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to kaylasmommy's topic in Cardiac

    I work on a step down unit. Our floor has 42 pts with a ratio of 1:4 or 1:5. We are the only floor besides the icus that can take a vent pt. If we have a vent pt it's an automatic 1:4 ratio. We also...

  4. Aquapheresis

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to cardiacnurse05's topic in Cardiac

    our floor has been using aquadex for awhile and we've had so much success with it. i've only had one negative thing happen while having a patient on it, and it really wasn't even bad, a patient's BP...

  5. usually, how long into the program do clinicals start?

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to uglybetty1's topic in General Students

    We started a week after school

  6. Testicular Torsion

    tiffanyleigh0212 posted a topic in General Students

    I'm doing a C-MAP on testicular torsion and am coming up short on nursing diagnosis. I've looked all through my book and nursing diagnosis book. The main thing that is said is about the pain, so...

  7. Testicular Torsion

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

    Thanks so much for yalls help. TerpGal I didn't even think of tissue perfusion and risk for injury, those are great. While going through reading my case study again I realized that it says since the...

  8. Testicular Torsion

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

    I was thinking risk for infection because of surgery, and activity intolerance due the surgery

  9. Clinical Parking

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to TmC1999's topic in General Students

    wow, i feel really lucky. we have to park in the employee parking which is a decent ways away, but the employee shuttle circles around constantly picking up people and take them to the hospital and...

  10. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    that's exactly what i was trying to

  11. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    it can be argued by arguing weight, you don't have a baseline. arguing skin turgor, it isn't always acurate either depending on the

  12. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    depending on the pts age. among a few other things. older pts. tent without being dehydrated, so it doesn't necessarily show signs of dehydration. i'm just saying the arguments can go both

  13. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    i just said as a general rule of thumb it's by weight. but you can argue that you don't have enough info to base it off of weight and as skin turgor (ie: they didn't say his age etc. as they didn't...

  14. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    So tell us then how skin turgor is going to show the extent of the fluid loss? it's not, and further more, you don't the pts. age or anything or he might tent normally and it mean nothing, so the same...

  15. Test Question

    tiffanyleigh0212 posted a topic in General Students

    You have a pt. with a BMI of 17. What is the first thing the nurse should do? I forgot the other 2 answers but the ones I remember are - Talk to pt. about increasing dietary intake. - Assess pt. daily...

  16. Test Question

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

    Thanks everyone for your input, apparently the entire class gave her crap about it so she said she would accept both answers. Still irritates me though as to why on earth she would think that way...

  17. Test Question

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

    yes that was the entire question. i chose the assess first, and i was wrong.. all semester long they have been drilling into us ADPIE and now it's apparently wrong? and furthurmore, we don't know the...

  18. Did i pick good nursing diagnosis' for this patient?

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Shandigidy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    that one sounds

  19. Did i pick good nursing diagnosis' for this patient?

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Shandigidy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I was thinking on the confusion one also and don't think restraints or pulling on tubing would be the r/t IMO.. unless i'm missing something. is it the restraints that is causing the confusion? if it...

  20. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    well skin turgor isn't always very accurate either. the question didn't state the age, but depending on the pts. age it can be rather useless IMO.. elderly pts tent, not r/t dehydration, but just old...

  21. nutrition poster

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

    That's a good idea, our teacher is all about supplements! And that website is awesome, I'm going to use it. I had personally never even heard of this type of diet till I was assigned it. Thanks both...

  22. nutrition poster

    tiffanyleigh0212 posted a topic in General Students

    I'm working on a nutrition poster for a project at school. We were assigned a specific diet and have to do a poster for information about the diet, things the pt should know, etc. The diet I was...

  23. Med Info

    tiffanyleigh0212 posted a topic in General Students

    I'm working on my clinical paperwork and we are having to fill out a new type of med info sheet. One of the questions on the sheet is "Actions to take if the assessment shows the drug is ineffective."...

  24. You walk into a pt room & they are not breathing, whats the 1st thing...

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to student_nurse24's topic in General Students

    Yeah you definitely should find out the pt's code status before you do anything at all.. thats one of the first things we always know. Depending on where you're clinicals are, a DNR isn't necessarily...

  25. All current first semester students

    tiffanyleigh0212 posted a topic in General Students

    Well the semester is winding down and not much more left. I'm curious to know how everyone's first semester went. Was is what you expected, did you enjoy it, hate it, complete opposite of what you...