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
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...