Samian Q

Samian Q

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  1. I have an Ulcerative Colitis patient to care for tomorrow. Questions about diet?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Okay, I looked through those links, and they did help a bit. Thanks for that. I now need some help for the labs. On my CDB sheet, it says this: "1) List abnormal and significant "Normal" lab values....

  2. I have an Ulcerative Colitis patient to care for tomorrow. Questions about diet?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hmmmm. So when it says "Factors that DECREASE risk", what does that mean? Let me go out there and suppose our patient had HIV (purely made-up) instead of UC. The factors that INCREASE risk would be...

  3. I have an Ulcerative Colitis patient to care for tomorrow. Questions about diet?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    same

  4. I have an Ulcerative Colitis patient to care for tomorrow. Questions about diet?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Okay, so now I need a little help on my Client Data Base (CDB). It says: "1) Describe the client and 2) the situation (Is the client at higher risk than average for complications (ie. DM, elderly,...

  5. I have an Ulcerative Colitis patient to care for tomorrow. Questions about diet?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thanks so

  6. I have an Ulcerative Colitis patient to care for tomorrow. Questions about diet?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oh, I've used the hat before! But what if they forget or don't use it for urine output? What are you supposed to write on the graphics? Do you leave the output box

  7. I have an Ulcerative Colitis patient to care for tomorrow. Questions about diet?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    But what if they go to the toilet when I'm not in the room and void and then

  8. I have an Ulcerative Colitis patient to care for tomorrow. Questions about diet?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yeah, it's an exacerbation and yes, it's a hospital (med-surg) pt. As for the output, the graphics sheet said stuff like "x1" and "x2"... not sure what that means. I wonder why it didn't just have...

  9. I have an Ulcerative Colitis patient to care for tomorrow. Questions about diet?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Okay, great, thanks! So let me ask something else: I looked on this pt's graphics specifically for the I&Os, and I saw something REALLY peculiar. Every day the patient was getting fluids both...

  10. How do I do prep work for a SIM lab that I have to go to on Monday?

    Samian Q posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    My adult health (Patho) clinical preceptor is making each of us go to a simulation experience at the nursing school, rather than the hospital, on a given Monday this semester. It just so happens that...

  11. What would be a good Nursing Diagnosis for my Maternity Care Plan?

    Samian Q posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    So I have to do a nursing care plan (a.k.a., Nursing Process Report/NPR). And I'm still rather unsure how this spiel works out. I was on a newborn nursery unit on Tuesday, and I picked out a newborn...

  12. What would be a good Nursing Diagnosis for my Maternity Care Plan?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Wait wait, so would it be "Risk for ineffective thermoregulation r/t low blood glucose" or "Risk for ineffective thermoregulation AEB low blood glucose"? I'm not sure what the technical difference...

  13. How do I do prep work for a SIM lab that I have to go to on Monday?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Okay, so let's discuss ABCs for a second. Suppose that the SIM Man has a mental status change and blacks out. Here's what I would do: Raise the head of the bed to 45 degrees, open SIM Man's mouth...

  14. How do I do prep work for a SIM lab that I have to go to on Monday?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Cute avatar pic! But I get graded on my performance So I still have to prepare SOMETHING. I think the basic rule of thumb is "What's gonna kill your patient". Maybe I should look up what to do in...

  15. How do I do prep work for a SIM lab that I have to go to on Monday?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    But I don't really know a lot, since the semester's barely started and I've only been to the hospital once. Is there a generalized framework that I can use to prep

  16. What would be a good Nursing Diagnosis for my Maternity Care Plan?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oh, check this out! Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting Why don't I just say "Risk for Birth Trauma secondary to Macrosomia"? I looked in the index and it's the...

  17. What would be a good Nursing Diagnosis for my Maternity Care Plan?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    But the mom doesn't have a diagnosis of diabetes (I looked in her chart). I couldn't find any of the psychosocial stuff in the chart (the binder's THIS THICK!), but I didn't see anything in the chart...

  18. What would be a good Nursing Diagnosis for my Maternity Care Plan?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Like I said, the baby's doing just fine. I saw the baby with the mother, and the bonding was perfectly fine. The baby *was* slightly macrosomic, obviously due to the weight, and was born at 40.5...

  19. What would be a good Nursing Diagnosis for my Maternity Care Plan?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    That's what's making this so hard. Other than that low blood glucose reading, I seriously can't find anything wrong with this baby. But I need to do a care plan!

  20. Why would these IV meds be on my tomorrow patient's chart?

    Samian Q posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    So tomorrow I'm taking care of my very first adult health (patho) patient! Yaay! And one of the things my preceptor wants us to do is to go in the day before (that is, Sunday) and write down all the...

  21. This is my very first Care Plan, for Maternity. Please help?

    Samian Q posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    OK, so I'm doing my first ever Nursing Process Report (NPR), or a care plan. I was on a postpartum unit, and my patient was mostly just fine, only that she had spiked a temperature of 101.1 F after a...

  22. Why would these IV meds be on my tomorrow patient's chart?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Aha!! Then the clot would dislodge and quickly go to the area of lowest pressure (i.e., the lungs), and then it would become a pulmonary embolism and you'd have a major crisis on your hands! I think...

  23. Why would these IV meds be on my tomorrow patient's chart?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Lol, actually, my nursing preceptor assigned each of us the patient's room number, so I didn't have much of a choice in the matter Wait!! Is the patient walking because ambulation decreases the risk...

  24. Why would these IV meds be on my tomorrow patient's chart?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oh and thanks for the best wishes :) Apparently tomorrow I'm going to have to take vital signs, do a dressing change, get the patient to cough and use the incentive spirometer hourly, do a focused...

  25. Why would these IV meds be on my tomorrow patient's chart?

    Samian Q replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You know what, you bring up a really good point. I got a quick glimpse of the patient earlier today, by coincidence, as I was looking at their binder, and I didn't notice an IV line on that patient....