nursingstudent2006

I am an EMT and in nursing school right now. As of right now I would love to be a flight nurse. Good Luck in what you decide

I just learned nursing diagnosis, and they way I understood them is that they are diagnoses that nurses came make after your assessment of your patient. Such as if they have just been diagnosed with cancer, they are at risk for deficit knowledge, then what you can do as a nurse to help them, your nursing interventions, so in this case educate them on their new diagnosis, and make goals for them to reach. I don't know if that helped any. But I guess that is how I understood it

At my school, we have a stimulator who is called Stan the man, he costs LOTS of money, but anyway, you can do absolutely everything to him, they can give him all sorts of different scenerios and you have to make him stable. He breaths, blinks, dies and you can revive him, you can give him all sorts of inneverventions and see how he reacts. Also, you can practice your skills on him such as vitals they can put him in a stressed situation and you take all him vitals then they have you critically think about why this is happening. Also, they let you tell the person that runs his CPU what meds you want to give him and then see how he reacts. He is just like a real patient, I think it was a very good idea to purchase him. They told us that they would like to purchase the ped stimulator also.