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Hi Everyone! I am an LPN, I graduated nursing school last June. I finally got a full-time nursing job over a year later... Anyway.. I am working at a neurologist doctors office who specializes in epilepsy, seizures, etc. I was wondering if anyone could give me some information regarding these areas. Anything at all would be wonderful however, I am really looking for some assessment information. I will be going in with the patient before the doctor and I will need to get information. What should I ask? (One of the problems is that they fill out this sheet that already asks "review of systems" questions so anything I ask will seem redundant) But I would appreciate any information, "pearls of wisdom" you have to offer. Thank you so much! Brittany!

I am in my last 9 weeks of school, right now we are only doing Med Surge. We have 6 chapters this week and I 'try' to read them all, take notes while I'm reading and also use other study tools that my instructor gives us. See the word "try" lol We also have chapters in Fundamentals and Pharmacology that she doesn't do in class but I don't read those, she usually goes over what we need to know. Good luck in school! : )

Hi, I'm working on my care plan and im having some trouple. I need to come up with a nursing diagnosis for: Seizure, Chest pain, Hypokalemia, and Hypertension. Not all in one, but four separate ones. Then, I need to develop a care plan on my nursing Dx about Seizures and my nursing Dx for chest pain. I was thinking for seizures: Risk for trauma r/t loss of large muscle coordination AEB seizure, and for chest pain Risk for decreased cardiac output r/t (idk) AEB chest pain and HTN?? idk.. I'm kinda lost and soooooo over care plans! HELP!!! Also, does anyone know the pertinent labs for seizure?

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Thank you all for your replies! So, is it like because of all the "junk" in the lungs, the temp goes up because of "impending" infection? So deep breathing and coughing it up gets rid of it so the temp goes down. Is that correct?

Hi, I am new to this website so if I am in the wrong place please forgive me. I am in my last 3 months of LPN school and we are going over post-op patients. It is said that when a patient is out of surgery and recovering, if their temperature goes up to have them do the incentive spirometer a few times and their temperature should decrease. I recently saw this with my dad who had surgery a few weeks ago. I don't quite understand what happens, I understand that it decreases the temperature but I wanted to know what exactly happens that makes the temperature go down. Does anyone have any insight on this? If so, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! BB