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  1. Please help me understand this question

    This question came from the Leik Certification book at Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Intensive Review: Fast Facts and Practice Questions, Second Edition: 9780826134240: Medicine & Health...
  2. Please help me understand this question

    This question came from the Leik Certification book at Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Intensive Review: Fast Facts and Practice Questions, Second Edition: 9780826134240: Medicine & Health...
  3. Iron level differentiation

    I am having a hard time figuring out the difference between serum iron and serum ferritin. I do know that serum iron is the iron level circulating in the blood, where serum ferritin is the iron that...
  4. Diabetes screening at local Walmart

    Thanks people. I didn't consider that a1c would take a while for results. Random glucose sounds like a good test for this
  5. Just a quick question; I ran into a question where it asked about diabetes screening at a local Walmart. If it was a volunteering service that is performing diabetes screening only for 1 day at a...
  6. Hello, My school has not yet recommended a book that will help us interpret diagnostics and laboratory values. I have looked at several lab books on amazon.com and vitalsource.com. Many of them...
  7. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    I bought the same book. It's pretty nice. I love the long
  8. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    Thanks so much for elaborating
  9. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    Thanks for the opinion. I will go ahead and study these on my own. Also, you keep saying OP. What does this mean? I do not use the forums a
  10. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    I did look at this book through Amazon.com preview feature, and I think that is the book I will end up buying. It's very comprehensive. I attend Chamberlain's college of
  11. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    I also know what basic interventions are. But at a nurse practitioner level, I feel that we should be able to critically think when looking at lab values. For example, just by looking at a lab...
  12. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    Yes. What lab book did your school assign
  13. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    Chamberlain
  14. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    I was telling this to the physician I was working with. I told him that we have not even been told what lab book to use as of now. I feel very incompetent because of this, even though I am a...
  15. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    Hello Rocknurse, Thank your for responding. I did look at both of the books you listed, and found the first one to be very helpful. I have only looked at the description as of now. I was looking...
  16. Lab values interpretation for "beginners."

    An algorithm on what to do at a certain abnormal lab value. For example, if the hemoglobin is 1 point decreased from the normal range, then usually there's nothing to worry about. But if we have a...
  17. The truth about drug interactions?

    Hello Zmansc, Thank you so much for responding to my post. The teacher did not mention anything about the CYP enzymes, but I do remember a couple of students mentioning it in their post. But they...
  18. Hello all. I am in the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program at the moment. I just finished Pharmacology. At the start of the course, I was hoping to learn more about drug interactions....
  19. The truth about drug interactions?

    Hello Zmansc, Thank you so much for responding to my post. The teacher did not mention anything about the CYP enzymes, but I do remember a couple of students mentioning it in their post. But they...
  20. The truth about drug interactions?

    Ok, so it seems that most of the correct implementation concerning drug to drug interaction is based on clinical judgement. I wonder if someone can sue a Nurse Practitioner (NP) because a drug to...
  21. Hi all, Chamberlain nursing just started their Family Nurse Practitioner program. I have taken some MSN courses online and they have been a little bit challenging, but the courses I'm really...
  22. PICO question help

    Can anyone check my PICO question. Please give me feeback. Should I change anything? In patients with hypertension, is meditation as good as medications in controlling the incidence high blood...
  23. FNP syllabuses and book names

    I graduated from Chamberlain with my
  24. FNP syllabuses and book names

    Have you already taken NR-504 Leadership & Nursing Practice: Role Development? I'm in that class right now. I talked to the counselor and they said I still have to take NR-510: Leadership and...
  25. FNP syllabuses and book names

    Thank