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    Washing my clients face help

    NCRNMDM replied to Sugar-Phosphate's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Do some research in his chart, or computer documentation, and find out what he has on his face. I would want to know if it is infective, if it could spread to the rest of his body, or to me, how long...
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    IV therapy skills in nursing school...do they still exist?

    NCRNMDM replied to IvnurseAmanda's topic in General Students

    We had an entire skills lab during our first semester that was dedicated to IV access, fluid administration, secondary medication administration, hanging multiple medications and bags of fluid,...
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    Help on therapeutic communication techniques

    NCRNMDM replied to mpihl's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    In the references specific to my program, this is restating. The patient told you that they stopped taking their medications, so you restated what they just said. It is a therapeutic technique....
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    Help w/ Nursing Diagnosis?

    NCRNMDM replied to luvnhim's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think it sounds fine. We are told that we can include a medical diagnosis as long as we say secondary to, like you did. I feel that it is incorrect to say that a nursing diagnosis cannot include a...
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    Help! Suicide vs. Unmanaged diabetes

    NCRNMDM replied to jxoxo's topic in General Students

    Risk for suicide is always your first nursing diagnoses unless there is something else that will definitely kill them faster than that. Basically, risk for suicide trumps nearly every other nursing...
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    Primary Nursing Diagnosis: Stable Patient?

    NCRNMDM replied to Scythinian's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    How do you explain the pitting edema? Delve further into that, and you may find some diagnoses there. Also, you could do nutrition greater than body requirements, and you could do a risk for diagnosis...
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    Are your nursing school tests timed?

    NCRNMDM replied to tlc2u's topic in General Students

    Each exam we take, except for final exams, is 50 questions each, and we get 60 minutes to take the exam. The bad thing about a 50 question limit to all unit exams is that you never have any idea what...
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    Did you find Med-Surg class much harder than fundamentals?

    NCRNMDM replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    I'm about to finish my fundamentals course, and will have two classes next semester: med/surg and maternal/child/pediatric nursing. The classes are each 8 weeks long, and are both crammed into one...
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    Three times was not the charm

    NCRNMDM replied to lostdecade's topic in General Students

    I can't imagine the disappointment, hurt, and hopelessness you are feeling right now, but I am sure that it is terrible. It's awful that you have had all these negative experiences with your nursing...
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    Priority assessment..Respiratory or cardiovascular?

    NCRNMDM replied to Blu rose's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Is the patient having severe shortness of breath, or is the shortness of breath mild? Also, how low is the potassium? A potassium that is far from the baseline can have fatal consequences, and...
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    Kicked out of nursing school for leaving a bed in the high position...

    NCRNMDM replied to rocketsurgeon87's topic in General Students

    I wouldn't pursue that at all. If I did anything, I would go to the dean of the program, admit that I had made a ton of mistakes, admit that they were mistakes that I shouldn't have made, talk about...
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    Kicked out of nursing school for leaving a bed in the high position...

    NCRNMDM replied to rocketsurgeon87's topic in General Students

    You found out through the grapevine? I wonder what's being said through the grapevine about you since you've been kicked out of the program? I hate to sound harsh, and I know that's how that came out,...
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    Kicked out of nursing school for leaving a bed in the high position...

    NCRNMDM replied to rocketsurgeon87's topic in General Students

    I will be totally honest with you; a HIPPA violation of any kind at my program, no matter how small, results in automatic expulsion of the violating student, no questions asked. If we give information...
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    Seriously Considering Quitting

    NCRNMDM replied to jackometer's topic in General Students

    We are doing clinicals on a surgical floor, and we do focused assessments. We have to document a full assessment, but we don't do a formal and complex assessment. In general, I ask my patients their...
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    Have you made good friends while in Nursing School?

    NCRNMDM replied to PreStudent101's topic in General Students

    My entire nursing class is absolutely wonderful, so yes, I've made several good friends in the program. If your class gets along at all, you kind of have to make friends. You are with each other more...
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    I hate nursing school! ~rant~

    NCRNMDM replied to CrazierThanYou's topic in General Students

    Most of the nurses we encounter are very nice, they are eager to teach, and they are really glad that we are on their floor. However, there are some who don't seem to enjoy seeing us coming, they...
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    I hate nursing school! ~rant~

    NCRNMDM replied to CrazierThanYou's topic in General Students

    I agree that right now you do need to be learning to be an RN. I also agree that you don't need a speech about helping the CNAs every morning. However, I will share with you what my clinical...
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    Help in deciding to go into nursing.

    NCRNMDM replied to dream job's topic in General Students

    I'm in nursing school right now, and I have to say that it is pretty rigid. Classes are on a set schedule (we have class on Thursday from 4 PM to 8 PM), and they aren't changing. Clinicals are also on...
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    Need help with a care plan

    NCRNMDM replied to kelsey410's topic in General Students

    Remember that each nursing diagnosis is going to have interventions. The interventions are what you are going to do to help the patient. In this case, the diagnosis could be something like Risk for...
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    Need Advice On What To Do? Important..

    NCRNMDM replied to EMEddie's topic in General Students

    There are two magnet hospitals within an hour of me, and my mom actually works at one of them. The majority of their jobs, I would say around 95% of them, accept new graduates with ASN degrees. The...
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    RN vs LPN

    NCRNMDM replied to aachavez's topic in General Students

    In my state, North Carolina, LPNs cannot give blood or heparin. They also cannot do the initial assessment on a patient no matter what department they are working in. When LPNs do an assessment, they...
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    I hate nursing school! ~rant~

    NCRNMDM replied to CrazierThanYou's topic in General Students

    I'm in nursing school too, and I agree with you that the class part sounds awful. When we go to clinical, we are assigned a patient, or two, or three (depending on our skill level) and we are expected...
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    MICU vs SICU

    NCRNMDM replied to NCRNMDM's topic in MICU, SICU

    Thank you for the information. It does sound interesting to have a combined MICU and SICU, but I think most of the hospitals around here have them separated because they are larger level I trauma...
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    MICU vs SICU

    NCRNMDM replied to NCRNMDM's topic in MICU, SICU

    Thank you so much! You've been really helpful, and I'm glad you've had the patience to answer all my questions. I'm glad to hear from someone with experience that they think I can do it. I will be...
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    MICU vs SICU

    NCRNMDM replied to NCRNMDM's topic in MICU, SICU

    Thank you! I've known of new grads that started in ICU and did well also. I know that I don't know everything, I'm far from that, and I have a ton to learn. And I realize that working in the unit...