Chiquitabonita1982

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1. Nursing Student stressed out, anxious, and losing my motivation

   Chiquitabonita1982 posted a topic in Stress 101

   I'm hoping someone out there can offer me a few words of wisdom or advice. I'm in my 3rd semester of nursing school (4 semesters total), and I am finding myself becoming more and more frustrated, losing motivation, and just down-right anxious and de...

2. Nursing Care plan-Self Care Deficit

   Chiquitabonita1982 replied to Chiquitabonita1982's topic in Student Assist

   I have several care plan books and I understand that I have to use a Nanda diagnosis. My question was more related to whether I could just one part of the self care deficit diagnosis i.e. self care deficit r/t unable to feed self, or if I could use ...

3. Anyone interested in Mental Health Nursing field?

   Chiquitabonita1982 replied to pattylee1122's topic in General Students

   Me! My passion is psych and everything about mental health and it's where I want to work when I graduate. I'm hoping to just step right into a position as I've been working as a psychiatric associate for almost 8 years now-3 years at my current hos...

4. Nursing Care plan-Self Care Deficit

   Chiquitabonita1982 posted a topic in Student Assist

   I'm trying to write a care plan with the diagnosis of self care deficit. But I'm confused about one part. Some of my book break down Self care Deficit into 5 different categories: Feeding, Dressing/Grooming, Bathing Hygiene, Toileting, Transferrin...

5. Nursing Care Plan Help-Impaired Urinary Elimination

   Chiquitabonita1982 replied to Chiquitabonita1982's topic in Student Assist

   And to answer the questions about what I plan to do to decrease his chance of infection. Here is what I have listed under Interventions with the Evidence/Rationale [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Interventions & Evidence: (Independent) 1. Wash hands before co...

6. Nursing Care Plan Help-Impaired Urinary Elimination

   Chiquitabonita1982 replied to Chiquitabonita1982's topic in Student Assist

   That's how our sheet to follow from our instructors is set up. It says: Planning: Outcome Long-term Goal: Short Term Outcome: So If I change the short term outcome to say that nursing staff will monitor for signs of fever, chills, pus, or drainage f...

7. Nursing Care Plan Help-Impaired Urinary Elimination

   Chiquitabonita1982 replied to Chiquitabonita1982's topic in Student Assist

   Thank you so much for your replies! It definitely helped me out quite a bit. After I wrote the Impaired Urinary Elimination, I know that something was not quite right with it and it didn't really seem to be fitting with the definition. I have wrot...

8. Nursing Care Plan Help-Impaired Urinary Elimination

   Chiquitabonita1982 replied to Chiquitabonita1982's topic in Student Assist

   I am a 2nd semester student. He is a XY yr old male admitted with bladder cancer and a radical cystectomy, prostatectomy, and bilateral lymphadenctomy and ileal neobladder reconstruction. He has the placement of the following catheters, drains, and...

9. Nursing Care Plan Help-Impaired Urinary Elimination

   Chiquitabonita1982 posted a topic in Student Assist

   I'm looking for help trying to write my care plan. Here's a little background: My patient is a male with recent radical cystectomy with neobladder creation from the ileum. He has a Foley catheter, suprapubic catheter, urostomy, and JP drain. I'm tryi...

10. Online Concept map creator

    Chiquitabonita1982 posted a topic in Student Assist

    I've searched all over this site and google for some tips on finding an online concept map creator. All the links that I found on here were no longer valid. Does anyone know of a good online tool to use?