juniorminty

I'm with you DolceVita. You won't get by with people doing your work for you in real life. I rarely consult AllNurses unless I've exhausted my resources at home and my brain. This is what lead me to this post -- trying to find my one final diagnosis ...

Okay I'm doing my clinical paperwork from this week and I am stuck on one little part...my pt has acute pancreatitis. We were resting her pancreas, started NPO on NGT, moved to clear liquid then was switched to 1800 cal ADA diet Wednesday at lunch. S...

Ok, my pt this week at clinicals was diagnosed with 'altered mental status' for a number of reasons (bipolar, dementia, possible schizophrenia etc) My instructor suggested I go with dementia for my overall pathophysiology for my paperwork. She told m...

Basically I have to write a short blip about how dementia effects the brain and how then a short blip about how the brain functions normally

This is the student section Silverdragon...this is the nursing student assistance section.

Unless the instructor specifically asks us to bring a book to class I don't bring them. All my small chunky books (drug guide, dictionary, lab/diagnostic) stay home. At most I bring my binder, medsurg book and medsurg study guide in a fabric over the...

I agree! While it is important to get vitals and meet patients, you never want to go into a room not even know anything about your patient. Our hospital is doing away with Kardexs, so I just take a quick glance over their meds and the h&p to see ...

From what I understand, that is pretty normal lol. We were told the same thing at orientation for my class -- usually start out with 30 and graduate with half or less. We lost 4-5 people already, we started in April. One person just goofed off and di...

In my experience, people are not booted out left and right for no reason. There are stipulations and rules set by not only the schools but the state board of each state that a person must maintain a certain GPA in each class they take and can only mi...

Can anyone suggest a good nursing care plan book? Were going into our second round of clinicals and will be doing care plans every week for a grade. I've done a few care plans for practice in class and have done OK on them but didn't really feel like...

I have to laugh when people think that community/vocational/trade colleges have it easier. I am going to a technical college for my LPN and I have to say, it is by far the most challenging experience I've ever had in school. The pace is much quicker ...

Yes I would say speak to a lawyer and also talk to your state's board of nursing education.

Hello! I just started my clinical rotation for school last week and it's been really really great! I am in the LPN program at my school and we've just been doing bed baths and changing linens and charting but it's been awesome getting out of the clas...

I have Dermablend and I have used it to cover a tattoo on my back for my wedding. I wouldn't use that at the hospital because, as you said, some clients may be allergic to some of the ingredients. Being that my tattoo is on my wrist it will be in clo...

I'm not going to lie...it is a very hard test. And not because the material itself is difficult to understand but because it is a lot of material and much of it no one has had since highschool or earlier. If you can take it multiple times, that is gr...

I did terrible on my first practice exam as well...I think I got a 45% on the science part the first go but then after I studied for a bit and took it again, I got a 73%. I read the same thing but I didn't have anything on the exam about rocks, weath...

I just took the TEAS V two days ago and we were not allowed a calculator. I don't know the differences between 4 and 5 as far as what is on the exam but everything I've read said that V is much harder than previous tests. I got the TEAS V study guide...

That part is difficult...luckily my book came with flash cards of all the prefixes and suffixes out there. Here is a list on wikipedia if that helps! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_roots,_suffixes_and_prefixes

You could get a stethoscope or a nurses hat (from a costume store?) and take a picture of yourself and send it to them (email or picture text? so it doesn't take as long) saying 'Guess what?!'

I think it really just depends on what school you go to. I've heard about a million different answers from people. One person said they're score focuses more on the math and science section after they look at your overall score. I've heard some say t...

I am trying to...I have just been getting B's on several tests I've taken in the one class, but As on all the other work I've done. I'd really like to keep the 4.0, it's not easy to attain!

Hello all! I am new to the site, found it after doing a google search for 'TEAS exam scores'. I took my TEAS V yesterday and am hoping to gain entrance to the Practical Nursing program at the technical college I attend. It's fairly competitive and th...

I too ran out of time with the math section...I was actually working out the very last problem on paper and right before I went to click the answer, time ran out.

I just took the TEAS V and you are able to go back and review your answers. I think you still have to put an answer in to move on to the next page of questions but you can go back. However, once you've finished a section and moved on to the next one,...

As someone else already said -- get the TEAS V study guide. It is identitcal to what is on the test. Splurge and get the package that includes the paperback study guide and the online practice tests. I took one of the practice tests in the book first...