Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    A 6 week old infant w/ PYLORIC STENOSIS Presentation- Pediatric Nurses, please HELP!

    Daytonite replied to crease02's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    there are a whole bunch of pediatric weblinks where you can search for this information on this thread: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/medical-disease-information-258109.html -...
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    Acute pain nursing diagnosis, please help

    Daytonite replied to ponpancia's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The tests they do for that are EMGs and nerve conduction studies and a neurologist has to do
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    Problems with a Case Study Presentation.

    Daytonite replied to MissCharlieRN's topic in General Students

    I think you need to discuss this with your clinical instructor and tell her what is going on. She needs to make this right with the course
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    help in care planing

    Daytonite replied to lpn hakeem's topic in General Students

    for the life of me, i don't understand why students come up with goals and have no idea of how they are going to achieve them. your goals should be what you expect will happen after your nursing...
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    Acute pain nursing diagnosis, please help

    Daytonite replied to ponpancia's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    No, the use of a walking cane does not prove disturbed tactile
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    help w/ nursing dx/formulating my thoughts

    Daytonite replied to shrimpchips's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I notice she has CAD and HTN. Does that include some CHF. I would be thinking about Decreased Cardiac Output. Does she have any edema at all? Why is her output equaling her input? Is she on diuretics?...
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    Help with Care Plan for CVA client

    Daytonite replied to amandan08's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Airway is important and a patient will die rapidly with no oxygen, but brain cells start dying when the brain is deprived of oxygen at 4 minutes and at 7 minutes the brain is dead. Therefore,...
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    Careplan

    Daytonite replied to L.A.W's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    please read the early posts on this thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans. the process of diagnosing for nursing is no different...
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    Process recordings

    Daytonite replied to NurseBranch's topic in General Students

    there are some other process recording links on post #38 of this sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/health-assessment-resources-145091.html - health assessment resources,...
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    Nursing Diagnosis for abdominal pain

    Daytonite replied to guest_kim's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    let me put it this way. . .if you take your car to a mechanic he also diagnoses a problem. how do you think he does that? he doesn't pull diagnoses out of the air. he, or she, listens to what you...
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    Careplan

    Daytonite replied to L.A.W's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    That is
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    Help with Care Plan for CVA client

    Daytonite replied to amandan08's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    the correct sequence for your diagnoses is: ineffective cerebral tissue perfusion r/t interruption of blood flow aeb changes in motor responses. you should specify what those specific changes are...
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    Acute pain nursing diagnosis, please help

    Daytonite replied to ponpancia's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    How about stating it as "patient report of stabbing pain of 9 out of 10 on a 0 to 10 scale"? That makes it subjective
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    Need help with my diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to ksueb101334's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    well, no one can help you if you don't post any information about the patient. diagnoses don't just materialize out of thin air. imagine going to a car mechanic and having him not even examining your...
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    Help with Care Plan for CVA client

    Daytonite replied to amandan08's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    you need to read the information on the first couple of posts of this thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans. you haven't posted...
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    Acute pain nursing diagnosis, please help

    Daytonite replied to ponpancia's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes. FYI. . .assessment and description of pain includes the following: where the pain is located how long it lasts how often it occurs a description of it (sharp, dull, stabbing, aching,...
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    Careplan

    Daytonite replied to L.A.W's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes. Now address the
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    Careplan

    Daytonite replied to L.A.W's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I suppose. But that was not the diagnosis I was thinking of. You are totally ignoring the cough and crackles in the
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    Help with Care Plans

    Daytonite replied to rn/writer's topic in General Students

    No one help you without assessment data. A psychosocial diagnosis is no different from a physiological diagnosis. You still need to have assessment data in order to determine what the psychosocial...
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    ???creatinine???

    Daytonite replied to marlonAAPN's topic in General Students

    Creatinine is a better test of long term disease process. It takes longer for it to show changes. BUN can fluctuate from hour to
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    Can someone explain this please?

    Daytonite replied to futuredream's topic in General Students

    It's an x-ray of the lumbar spine. Not sure with the CR means, probably cross
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    Help with Care Plans

    Daytonite replied to rn/writer's topic in General Students

    if you go back to the beginning of this thread and read the information about care planning you will find that diagnosing is based on the assessment information you have about a patient and you have...
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    Long term goals for "Impaired Swallowing" due to CVA?

    Daytonite replied to HealerWoman's topic in General Students

    I really can't help you. All you posted is assessment information. Goals are based upon the predicted results of the nursing interventions you order and you have provided none of your nursing...
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    Help with care plan

    Daytonite replied to projectsarah's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    see this thread: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/help-preparing-clinical-227507.html - help preparing for clinical day! when you actually take care of the patient keep in mind that...
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    Infection diagnoses?! Plz help!

    Daytonite replied to NMS2010's topic in General Students

    i don't think your instructor meant for you to literally use infection as a nursing diagnosis. nursing problems are always based on the patient's symptoms. you have a sore that won't heal because of...