Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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  1. Daytonite

    Nursing care plan helpp

    i'm curious as to how you came up with the diagnosis of ineffective airway clearance. diagnosing is based upon symptoms that the patient has. i strongly suggest that before you go out and find...
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    Fluid and Electrolytes

    there is information on this on these sticky threads: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/any-good-iv-127657.html - any good iv therapy or nursing procedure web sites...
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    In need of help with a nursing dx!!!

    Look at the NANDA taxonomy information for Activity Intolerance. This nursing diagnosis centers around respiratory and circulation problems and has to do with patients not being about to maintain an...
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    Help with Nursing Diagnosis please

    How about Deficient Knowledge, complications of labor R/T lack of information AEB fear of problems with lady partsl delivery on mother's health. Also, make sure you address issues of postop pain,...
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    In need of help with a nursing dx!!!

    Rather than Risk for Injury, I would use an actual problem diagnosis of Ineffective Protection R/T thrombocytopenia AEB generalized weakness. This can be substantiated by checking the related factors...
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    I need help with a care plan

    ineffective health maintance related to depression as evidence by inability to focus and lack of self care needs i don't think depression is an appropriate related factor to use for this diagnosis....
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    suspected DTI v. ecchymosis v. fracture

    We cannot diagnose. We only document what we observe. purple area over the sacrum that is painful to palpation I would also have taken measurements of the discolored
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    Confused?

    did you read the first section of the book where it explains how to put together a care plan and diagnose? rather than go to section ii (the cross reference) and try to find diagnoses for hypoxic...
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    Prioritization of Patients Diagnoses

    Activity Intolerance is a Respiratory and Circulation problem and has to do with deconditioning to activity and not with pain the patient is having. It has to do with the patients tolerance of...
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    Nursing Diagnosis help

    a care plan is about a patient's nursing problems. what you have provided is all kinds of information about the patient's medical problems. nursing problems are the patient's response to their...
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    Drug Cards

    a number of resources are listed on this sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/pharmacology-help-140434.html - pharmacology help! drugs.com http://www.drugs.com/ global rph...
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    Nursing Diagnosis Help!

    nursing diagnoses, like medical diagnoses, are based upon evidence that you have collected that support their existence. the first thing you do is sift through your data to see what abnormal data...
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    First semester anxiety

    read the information and weblinks on this thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/looking-test-taking-224581.html - looking for test taking
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    Prioritization of Patients Diagnoses

    this is how the diagnoses would be sequenced according to maslow's hierarchy of needs: ineffective tissue perfusion: peripheral [physiological need for oxygen by the peripheral tissues] activity...
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    Help PLZ! Nursing DX for neck abscess?

    see https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans. a care plan is all about determining what the patient's nursing problems are. these are...
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    infectious enteritis

    suggest you look on these websites: family practice notebook (use search box and input a disease) http://www.fpnotebook.com/index.htm emedicine http://www.emedicine.com/ merck manual of diagnosis...
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    Prioritization of Patients Diagnoses

    this is how the diagnoses would be sequenced according to maslow's hierarchy of needs: ineffective tissue perfusion: peripheral activity intolerance chronic pain ineffective health maintenance...
  18. i went through the list of information that you gave about the patient and the nursing diagnoses you came up with and you kept mentioning copd. this was not in the list of the patient's medical...
  19. They just didn't check the IV regularly like they were supposed to. I've seen a lot of different ways that IVs infiltrate from flat out gross leaks to slow leaks over time. It's really important to...
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    Help with careplan...

    scattered rhonchi, decreased left lung base, the productive coughing are not symptoms of impaired gas exchange. they belong to ineffective airway clearance. ineffective tissue perfusion, cerebral -...
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    Help with careplan...

    the last time you asked for help with a care plan i gave you the same advice i am going to give you now. . .follow the steps of the nursing process to help you organize this care plan. everything is...
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    Simple DOCUMENTATION question

    you either write things are "normal" or write what you have observed. ex: lungs clear to ausculation, respirations regular and unlabored, abdomen soft with bowel sounds ausculatated in all 4...
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    ABG's

    It's alkalosis, but the CO2 is on the high end of normal, therefore, it is still compensated. If you feel better, call it straight out respiratory alkalosis because that is where it is
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    Complete Heart Block Interventions

    complete heart block is a medical diagnosis. you can find all kinds of medical interventions for it on the internet. see these websites: family practice notebook (use search box and input a...
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    ABG's

    Compensated Respiratory