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Thank you thank you! This is what I was thinking. Also I was wondering if the patient had an amputated foot already if there would be any benefit to the skin itself in improving glucose control? If the patient had a foot amputated, could it be possible that the patient would need to be amputated higher up on the already amputated foot if blood glucose was not stabilized, or is there is a significantly smaller chance that the wound would get infected if the patient was able to control her blood sugar better? Thank you in advance, this is helping a lot

My school is like this. Apparently we have some of the best NCLEX results in the state, big whoop. However, our teachers rarely do demonstrations in lab or help us. We are expected to watch these videos and then go to lab and know what to do. A demonstration for each of the skills might take 15 minutes at the most and it would help us significantly. I don't understand why we don't do it.

I have a question regarding my school project. Basically, my patient has a diabetic foot ulcer (stage III) and we are coming up with interventions to help prevent further damage to her foot. We realize that this patient will probably never have a normal foot again, so our goal is focused on prevention. If this patient were to improve her blood glucose monitoring and correction, would this prevent further damage to her foot ulcer? Or is it too late for this patient to prevent damage to her foot ulcer with blood glucose monitoring? Is good blood sugar control only good for prevention of the foot ulcer in the first place? Thanks, Kim (P.S. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section. I was torn between students and diabetes nurses, but I figured you guys may have more information on the subject.) (P.P.S. Sources for this would be appreciated. I couldn't find anything about this online but then again it's very hard to find a good keyword to search for this.)

Nursing Care Plan Help!!!! My patient is on "The Neighborhood," a virtual community. She has a 15 year old son and has been suffering from major fatigue and joint pain. I was going to do a nursing diagnosis Risk for impaired parenting r/t physical illness aeb patient's complain of constant fatigue and joint pain. I'm wondering if the risk for impaired parenting has to have anything specific related to parenting or if it can just have general fatigue (which could lead to impaired parenting). I'm just wondering! Thanks

I've noticed a lot of these people in my pre-nursing classes. I actually get into nursing school and well... they aren't there anymore. Clearly they do not have what it takes.

What class is it? lol Is it anatomy and physiology?

My boyfriend's friend was taking calculus (all the way up to calc 3) and mentioned about how that is so much harder than nursing school. I was upset because it's not really harder imo, it's just different. I don't see calculus clinicals with people going to apprenticeship with pythagorus. I don't see people having to do these math problems on the spot that could kill someone. I don't get it.

The good news is that you will probably never see this stuff again in nursing. Chem is such a little part of the big picture. Hang in there

Try to go to open lab as much as possible (if your school offers it). Looking at the actual bones is much different than it is on paper (I kept confusing the parts of the humerus and the femur when I actually went to take the test ). If you don't have the time, you can bring a camera and take pictures of the bone models. Then you can go home and label them. My teacher tried to buy a skeleton from a halloween store to practice, but he found that the models weren't very anatomically correct Honestly, bones was the hardest test in my entire A&P career. It's a lot of fancy names and a lot bones. Hang in there. Muscles are probably the second hardest.

I know plenty of people who have spent 8 years or so getting their BSN. It's better to spend more time in school and really learn instead of rushing through with it to get done and then not knowing enough to practice.