Constantly Surprised

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 those subjects. It isn't likely that your instruct...

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

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. Stands for the problem. The problem is written as ...

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 you wouldn't instruct your patient on what they s...

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

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

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 "what I would do" because I'm not you. What reall...

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 accreditation goes into question. So, while it may seem s...

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

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 one and a half cents lol... I consult my books and...

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 intervention as 'determine primary language and cultu...

: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 behind it. Remember always, especially after a hard...

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 navigate. What you will want to do is use the sea...

Assess for negative homan's sign every shift?

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 will speed you along.

Acute metabolic encephalopathy combined with anemia scream out for some nutritional balance Dxs... And with impaired mental state, impaired nutrition, impaired mobility, incontinence, and impaired tissue perfusion r/t anemia, skin breakdown is huge. ...

I'd start with anxiety related to rh- dx due to fear of losing child? I'm RH- myself and have gone through the loss, it's very difficult to deal with.

You must be in my class! Might I also add the 2 girls in class who think what they have to whisper very audibly to each other is more important than what the instructor is teaching even though I paid to hear her speak, not them. And the other girl wh...

This would be where I would begin looking for information about how to address those questions : http://nationalnurse.org/faq.pdf and their main site http://nationalnurse.org/ and http://nationalnurse.blogspot.com/ (Scroll down to last entry article ...

Couldn't agree more! :lol2:When it's on paper, it loses some meaning for me. Where as in application (doing the job) I am capable of great things! I've been a solid B nursing student so far. I realize it could be worse, but there is that part of me t...

Been coming here for a while now, since long before I began nursing school, and notice a constant reoccurring theme. "Why are nurses so mean to students?" and various other related threads. Some people get upset with clinical nurses "They are just so...

Of course lateral violence is bad. Treating people like crap doesn't require a professional title though. I'm sure there are instances of students doing / saying things to nurses they are working under while in clinicals that are atrocious. I'd wager...

No, I totally agree. Idealism is a great thing. It gives everyone something to strive to be. Just don't hold other people that you don't know, or know what they're going through, to your own personal standards is all I was really getting at. I want ...

Ahh yes! The grim truth! Students are people experiencing stress, and so are nurses! So let's stop fighting it out on here and having this battle and try to seriously work together to accept that. Some people won't ever change. Rude people are just r...

Maybe take a moment to enjoy this slower period and smell the roses I'm sure that in a while, you will long for the days of slower paced Nightingale sleepy time lol