LittleRedOwl

LittleRedOwl ADN, ASN, BSN, RN

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  1. FAU FNP 2019

    LittleRedOwl replied to Nursesoonfnp's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I would join the FB page. It's a little early. But we also have things like this castle branch stuff and orrientation coming up. That's still plenty to help eachother

  2. FAU FNP 2019

    LittleRedOwl replied to Nursesoonfnp's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Also conditionally accepted to

  3. Nightshift -days off

    LittleRedOwl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nightshift nurse for about 2 years now. I easily adjusted to nights within my first week of switching and have never felt fatigued on nights. For my first year I had the best of both...

  4. Nightshift -days off

    LittleRedOwl replied to LittleRedOwl's topic in General Nursing

    Lol yeah the habit forming part is a bit off putting. Though I'm sure it would work

  5. Nightshift -days off

    LittleRedOwl replied to LittleRedOwl's topic in General Nursing

    Thyroid labs fine. Slight anemia on my CBC. Take women's

  6. Do you titrate drips?

    LittleRedOwl posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ive started to wonder out of curiosity (because I've only worked in one hospital system)... how many hospitals have nurses titrate cardiac drips? It wasn't anything I was taught in school and even at...

  7. Do you titrate drips?

    LittleRedOwl replied to LittleRedOwl's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, it's not very hard titrating the doses once you get a feel for it. The ramifications are just much bigger than a typical sliding scale if you ask me -and can require a lot of babysitting and...

  8. Do you titrate drips?

    LittleRedOwl replied to LittleRedOwl's topic in General Nursing

    1:3-4 ratio on my floor. And you can have a couple drip patients at times. We titrate based of a range of limits on a badge card we wear behind our

  9. Do you titrate drips?

    LittleRedOwl replied to LittleRedOwl's topic in General Nursing

    Levophed was specifically one I heard coworkers saying they couldn't do at other facilities. Just yesterday I had a patient on dopamine and

  10. Applying for Jobs Before Graduation

    LittleRedOwl replied to bises's topic in General Students

    I did the same. When I was offered my first job they asked if I had other interviews and I said yes and they asked if I wanted to take some time before accepting my job after doing my other interviews...

  11. HELP!!! Working full time and studying for Nclex

    LittleRedOwl replied to bellabgn's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Nursing made insanely easy by sylvia rayfield with the mnemonics and pictures is nice for content review thats

  12. If you have a hard time studying, it's okay

    LittleRedOwl posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    When I graduated nursing school and they paid for us to have a review and the reviewer told us that we should study TWO HOURS everyday until our nclex. I tried studying, I really did, but I found it...

  13. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Second semester is rough. It will come to you. Until you learn the disease processes fully it's difficult to think critically. Concept mapping helps. If your program does that you'll start...

  14. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I started nursing school last august, and graduate in one month. I am not even a seasoned nurse! You'll get there. You're on the right

  15. Nursing Student Exams...help!

    LittleRedOwl replied to chillischick's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    1. You can try studying to teach. This means, you look over the info and simplify it in a manner in which you could teach your classmates the information and give a presentation on it to the class....

  16. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Then it sounds like you've chosen! Go with knowledge deficit. Really nutrition is mostly teaching/knowlege anyways you can teach him to increase protein intake (as long as there isn't a medical reason...

  17. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    What's going to "fix your patient" is teaching him the proper care! He seems to think that if he gets better he can stop taking meds. It's very important that he understands "These are life long...

  18. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You can really group teaching anywhere you want by the way. You can have it in each diagnoses and spread it out. That shows good critical thinking having it incorporated

  19. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Increasing pulse pressure in his BP. His top numbers a bit high, and bottom is a bit low. High pulse pressure can indicate a

  20. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You could group med compliance in with nutrition. I am suspicious his poor lab values relate to all his medical conditions, and if he's not caring for those by taking his meds, nutrition is going to...

  21. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The thing is though, nursing care plans don't to aim to cure illnesses, they aim to fix the side effects from illnesses. Your ideas sound like they aim to fix diseases. The doctor should be the one...

  22. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm thinking the poor nutrition in his lab values are from his hep C and cirrhosis. The liver is very important for utilization of vitamins and

  23. Care plan helpppp

    LittleRedOwl replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    So what I am thinking is that renal circulation doesn't seem like the priority to me. That sounds more like it's medical based and less nursing based. I'd want to pick a legitimate problem I can fix....

  24. Just got accepted, what now?

    LittleRedOwl replied to cbazze9709's topic in General Students

    Here's my seasoned advice 1. Buy an alarm clock if you don't have one, and don't count on your phone. 2 people in my program overslept and missed class/clinicals over and over again, they bought a...

  25. nln pax entrence exman

    LittleRedOwl replied to Lisel's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I took the nln and got a 141, and got into my nursing program! I didn't studying until 10 days before the test because it kind of snuck up on me and I did great. I originally typed this advice up for...