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    Nursing concept map. Am I in the right ballpark?

    smf0903 replied to kvothe231's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    While I am no super whiz at care plans/concept maps (just putting that out there! LOL), it appears to me that you are working in the opposite direction than you should be (assigning a diagnosis and...
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    My mom died just before Christmas - advice needed

    smf0903 replied to Gloryboo's topic in General Students

    Hi GloryBoo, i'm sorry to hear that you had to drop, but I completely understand, and it sounds like the door is still wide open for you. I had been wondering how you were doing. My dad died the day I...
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    What are you doing summer break?

    smf0903 replied to missmollie's topic in General Students

    Cleaning my house Gardening, spending time with family, and whittling myself down to a smaller scrub size LOL. Those are the plans! I hope everyone who is lucky enough to have the summer off ENJOYS...
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    Practicing Skills over Break

    smf0903 replied to IThinkICan100's topic in General Students

    Did you get supplies your first semester to practice skills? We got a bag which had syringes, IV bags and tubing, fake insulins, trach care, foley, etc in it. This semester we had a lot of IVs,...
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    When All Else Fails... Assess Your Patient!

    smf0903 replied to Episteme's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This is such an interesting thread. When I read the title "When all else fails, assess your patient", I thought "Whaaaat?!?! Isn't that the FIRST thing we should be doing??" (But I get the title after...
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    Do you think eating in the classroom is rude?

    smf0903 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Students

    Chip bags. So funny that this thread is on here because I just about could not hear our lecture instructor over the multiple people digging into their chip bags this last week. I don't mind at all if...
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    Taking Finals Today

    smf0903 replied to RonnieDita's topic in General Students

    Good luck on your final final!! Our last final of the semester is a week-and-a-half from now Today is our last clinical day so I am finishing up goodies to take in for the awesome nurses and techs on...
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    How to record lectures?

    smf0903 replied to NurseSN45696's topic in General Students

    I do this too...it's like making audio flash cards. Works great to listen to on my drives!
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    What is it about Care Planning that you find most challenging?

    smf0903 replied to Episteme's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    @203bravo...yes, when I said ~30 minutes, I meant ONLY for the single care plan (one diagnosis). No way do our multiple diagnoses care plans get done in that amount of time LOL!
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    drug computation.. help!

    smf0903 replied to lucypill0229's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am curious as to why you're getting 0.91mL for the second problem? If it's three divided doses wouldn't the admin amount be 0.3mL? (And it drives me crazy too when stuff is keyed wrong...though I...
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    drug computation.. help!

    smf0903 replied to lucypill0229's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I get 0.3mL for the second
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    How to record lectures?

    smf0903 replied to NurseSN45696's topic in General Students

    I record mine on my iPhone. I have one of those plug thingies in the car that I can plug my phone into and have it go through the stereo in the car, so that's how I listen to mine. Prior to getting...
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    What is it about Care Planning that you find most challenging?

    smf0903 replied to Episteme's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    What was your last Care Plan about? (Case study? Actual patient?) **The last care plan I did was on an actual patient (all of ours are on actual patients, at least for clinicals). The most recent was...
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    Verification of Medication

    smf0903 replied to EHGWR's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Interesting thread...I will be watching to see if the med I'd pick for a double-check is right
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    Parents I need some advice!

    smf0903 replied to aeris99's topic in General Students

    I don't know how old your children are, but if kids are old enough to walk and talk, they're old enough to help, even if it's a little bit. I have a big dry erase calendar with chores on it to help...
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    Prandial vs. first-phase insulin release

    smf0903 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hi all...I am trying to figure out if there's a difference between the two, and if so, what it is. I can't seem to find a definitive answer searching online! Thanks so
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    Prandial vs. first-phase insulin release

    smf0903 replied to smf0903's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oh gosh, you know I read that medscape article yesterday (prior to posting here) and somehow completely missed the part that says "The second phase of prandial insulin secretion follows, and is...
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    Prandial vs. first-phase insulin release

    smf0903 replied to smf0903's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Well here's what I know: prandial is in response to meals and as far as I can tell, first phase is also in response to meals (or at least a spike in blood glucose). So our text is really good at using...
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    care plan help

    smf0903 replied to Theresa Presley's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    SUI comes straight from the NANDA list. If it were me, I'd ask to meet with the instructor and bring my nursing dx book with me, that way she can look at the book and give you an explanation as to why...
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    What do you always have in your scrub pockets?

    smf0903 replied to Lilbit's topic in General Students

    Ahhhh, my brain so did not go in that direction LOL!! All I could think was something
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    What do you always have in your scrub pockets?

    smf0903 replied to Lilbit's topic in General Students

    I have to ask...what's the hammer
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    What do you always have in your scrub pockets?

    smf0903 replied to Lilbit's topic in General Students

    Right cargo pants pocket is steth, left pants pocket is patient sheets and med sheets...right top pocket is hemostats, bandage scissors, penlight, and pens...left top pocket is tape,...
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    Death at Clinical

    smf0903 replied to NICUnurse21's topic in General Students

    Mine didn't happen at clinical but I was there when my dad died. It was the first time I ever heard Cheyne-Stokes breathing. We knew it was coming and had put him under hospice care (he was in a...
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    How much of your cohort did you "lose"?

    smf0903 replied to LoriRNCM's topic in General Students

    I'm also at a community college. We start with 120 students and at the end of our first semester we had around 66 of that original 120 go on to the second semester. I'm near the end of third semester...
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    Why do nurses "eat their young"?

    smf0903 replied to hope4ccns's topic in General Students

    I have found during my clinical experiences that the nurses who are nasty (and I mean "mean-nasty", not I-don't-have-time-for-you-because-I'm-so-busy-my-head's-gonna-pop) are just nasty people by...