crb613 BSN, RN

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    I need help w/charting please........

    Thanks & the dx cancer. My CI says no to bedrails/call light also. No to vitals, BS's, Abd flat/non tender. Also don't say pt. its their chart......Instead The lung wheeze ok & denies...
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    Words of inspiration..add some!

    aaah! No that's not silly at all! That would inspire me & good luck to you. Please post your pic when you have fufilled your dream. the quote I think of is by Ghandi (sp)....."Be the change you...
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    Please....study Help For Skeletal System

    We have a really great lab so I just spent extra time in there. I found if I actually touched the bones & looked at them really good this helped me. I would just get the bones out & pick them...
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    half way through and feeling bleak

    I will graduate in May (fingers crossed)! & I feel the same way. I have always had plenty of energy & self motivation for studying.........but now I find it soooo hard to do. I have a big ole...
  5. check out the websites & i don't think you will need to buy a book. i was having a terrible time with the math & this just set it all straight for me. it teaches you da!
  6. http://www-isu.indstate.edu/nurs/mary/tutorial.htm http://www.dalesplace.net/factor.htm These sites saved my life!!! It explains it soooo well & really works! Good Luck & please let me know if...
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    Cheaters during a test!!!

    Ya know maybe this poster is just trying to cause problems. The replies just seem so odd & disturbed........???????? Let's hope that is all it is & not a true
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    Help Help Help!! Urgently =)

    Sorry I did not try it! Did you look at the other thread?? Also get a careplan book.....It should have a list of approved NANDA Dx in it.Another thought check in your school's library they should have...
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    Help Help Help!! Urgently =)

    This is an excellent site, with current approved NANDA diagnoses: http://www1.us.elsevierhealth.com/ME...ctor/index.cfm This was posted by Vicky RN in another thread. This thread is about careplan...
  10. I have edition 2 & 3. I can't see any difference except they are arranged a little differently. From just looking through... the questions seem to be the same. I like my 2nd edition best because...
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    Cheaters during a test!!!

    Sure it is...If you stand by & do nothing....what does that say about you? Do you agree with it? What about if you saw someone abusing a child....would you mind your own business or rat them...
  12. Great job!! to you & your students. I think you have that big smile on your face as well! You seem like a great
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    Controversial HealthcareTopics...

    There is a recent case in Corpus Christi,Texas w/13yo child removed from home because parents refused to allow tx for Hodgkin's disease. Mother could visit w/supervision not father until recently....
  14. Why not include it as per order/as prescribed ect.You do need to look at these to know what's going on & you do need to monitor. Also what about the other team members....consults w/dietary/PT...
  15. I was a little nervous on my first one too but we did not pair up. I just went in & did it.....kept the client covered when I was not bathing that area. This help me as well as the client......I...
  16. Nclex book worked for me. I agree try not to memorize (too much stuff). If it were your mother/child with that certain disease.....you could remember the important stuff...Right. So now your family...
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    TV's ER new NM, Eve

    That just put a smile on my face! I am still a student (May '06) & so far the nurses I have seen just take whatever........Even when the pt. needs someone to speak out for them. I sure hope...
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    TV's ER new NM, Eve

    I love ER but..... the new nurse mgr reminds me a little too much of my clinical
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    Student nurse, What I saw very upset....

    You did not come across as judgmental at all......just stating what you thought would happen. I posted to gain feedback & I appreciated all views. This is not the first time the director at my...
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    Student nurse, What I saw very upset....

    I just spoke to the director of my program & my instructor had reported this to her. There will be a meeting w/Director of Nsg. at this facility. Not sure who else will be there but I know my...
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    Student nurse, What I saw very upset....

    Thank you, and you are mighty right....I will be like a pit bull having a bad
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    Student nurse, What I saw very upset....

    Could you please tell me something, is this common for the site not to be numbed or the pt pre-medicated? I was told by someone from the ER that it would be worse to use a needle to numb the site...
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    Student nurse, What I saw very upset....

    Thank you, but I don't feel kind...I feel like I was part of this. This pt can't speak because of the larnyx just being removed. It was just done ~2 wks ago. I communicated with this pt with...
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    Student nurse, What I saw very upset....

    She said, "There was nothing I could have done about it." My instructor was just outside the door on her way in as I came out. I don't know if she did or said something or not........she is a very...
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    I have a severe case of test anxiety

    Been there, done that! I know exactly what you are going through. I toughed it out through my pre-reqs & 1 1/2 semester of Nsg. school & I said enough! I tried everything exercise/breathing...