Constantly Surprised

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1. Entering first year in Fall 2012- Very Nervous!

   Constantly Surprised replied to marcygrace's topic in General Students

   Endocrine, cardiac, respiratory, renal and neuro are huge. Did I say huge? I meant HUGE!!! One of the best things you can do to prepare for enterance nursing classes is fully and completly understand...

2. Nursing Dx confusion

   Constantly Surprised replied to Clovery's topic in General Students

   Maybe Deficient knowledge r/t cognitive limitation (secondary to autism) aeb patients noncompliance with drug

3. Help with Nursing Diagnosis

   Constantly Surprised replied to doxiern40's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I forget who posted this, or when, but I did get it from this site. Always helps me to refer back to this one. The rules for constructing a 3-part nursing diagnostic statement are as follows. . . P....

4. Homework help - child abuse?

   Constantly Surprised replied to lulain's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   The primary goal of any nurse regarding any patient is safety. Always safety first. Your primary goal is the safety of your patient. Secondary to me would be a support role. An ear, a shoulder. While...

5. ATI Comprehensive predictor 2010

   Constantly Surprised replied to BeautifulTree's topic in General Students

   I can't add anything else to that comment. Sums it up perfectly for

6. Mnemonic for blood flow through the heart?

   Constantly Surprised replied to Iridescent Orchid's topic in General Students

   This is going to sound just beyond silly, but this video helped me in A&P

7. Ready to start a family, 35, and in nursing school...

   Constantly Surprised replied to Piggles's topic in General Students

   The real question revolves around priorities. Which is more important to you at this point in your life; career or starting a family? Everyone is different, so I can't offer up an advice in so far as...

8. New Graduation Requirements, Can They Do This?

   Constantly Surprised replied to Jen D's topic in General Students

   It reflects poorly on your school if they graduate you and then you fail the NCLEX. If a certain number of people don't pass (I believe 80% is the cut off point in my state) then that school's...

9. How soon you will be drug tested after admission?

   Constantly Surprised replied to The ER Biker's topic in General Students

   You are easily one of my favorite posters here and have managed, yet again, to sum up my feelings on a topic quite

10. I just want to throw this out there for students :)

    Constantly Surprised replied to xtxrn's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Now that you mention it, I don't often reply to those posts because I'm a student myself and not used to care plans 100% yet. The best I can do is offer my for what they're worth, which is more like...

11. Care plan Dx

    Constantly Surprised replied to smansur's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    One of the nursing DX listed from NANDA is Impaired Verbal Communication with an objective defining characteristic as 'Inability to speak dominant language' I'd say that's a fit here. Discusses an...

12. Just got my acceptance letter Winter 2011!!

    Constantly Surprised replied to hannahjean5's topic in General Students

    :anpom: First and foremost, Yay!!! Always keep the acceptance letter handy, perhaps on your refrigerator, so that you can see it often. At the bottom of that letter, write your name and then add RN...

13. feeling really down....

    Constantly Surprised replied to mgalano's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Someone had posted the following site on another thread, and I have used it ever since. https://evolve.elsevier.com/cs/Satellite/StudentMyHome?Audience=Student It's free to use, and relatively easy to...

14. Priority for DVT

    Constantly Surprised replied to Student2001's topic in General Students

    Assess for negative homan's sign every

15. program starts in Jan, looking to read ahead

    Constantly Surprised replied to mr.SleepWalker's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Everything this person said! Take some time to get your life in order. Clean out some closets and the like... Really. No one expects you to know all of this off the bat, and a firm grasp of A&P...