Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    Acute Pain Nursing Diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    the construction of the 3-part diagnostic statement follows this format: p (problem) - e (etiology) - s (symptoms) problem - this is the nursing diagnosis. a nursing diagnosis is actually a...
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    Nursing Diagnosis Help Please- Infiltrated IV

    Daytonite replied to Skyfel's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am surprised that there were two IV sites, but the nurse chose the hand to run the vanco. If I have a choice, I always run in a larger vein. On our ped floor, we have to check IV sites every...
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    Resume help....

    Daytonite replied to jillianLPN2ADN's topic in LPN to RN

    I wouldn't do it. My first question to you as an interviewer would be, "why did you have to go back to school?" Does that story really need to be told? What went on 5+ years ago is old and...
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    Resume help....

    Daytonite replied to jillianLPN2ADN's topic in LPN to RN

    I would leave off everything prior to 5 years ago as suggested. I was a manager who hired new grads. We were not interested in all that old work stuff, believe me. The older information is often...
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    Anxiety Disorder - need help making case study

    Daytonite replied to endin2010's topic in General Students

    A case study is merely a nursing care plan in an essay form. What you need to do is take the information that you were provided about the patient and use the nursing process to identify the patient's...
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    Help with Care Plans

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

    Ineffective Airway Clearance (because of the diminished lung sounds, productive cough and thick, tan/bloody sputum he is producing) How are you accounting for his generalized edema? Impaired Verbal...
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    Help with Care Plans

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

    a care plan is the identification of patient problems and developing strategies to do something about them. in this particular instance, you are identifying a hygiene and oral care self-care deficit...
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    Hi I am new to pharmacology and desperately need some help please

    Daytonite replied to 2bLPNhoneybee's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    see the weblinks on this sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/pharmacology-help-140434.html - pharmacology
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    need help prioritizing interventions

    Daytonite replied to myknucklehurts's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I would agree with the order of your interventions since the patient had a spike in temperature. The only item I might disagree with would be the sequence of A and D. F. Inform physician B....
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    plz help, prioritising nursing dianoses!!!

    Daytonite replied to radhika33's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You need to read the information about maslow's needs that i provided for you to understand the concept behind prioritizing these problems. maslow is broken down into what the person needs in order to...
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    plz help, prioritising nursing dianoses!!!

    Daytonite replied to radhika33's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You have to know what the problem (diagnosis) is and what the underlying pathophysiology causing it is. With something like Ineffective Airway Clearance and Activity Intolerance you are dealing with...
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    Nursing Diagnosis Help Please- Infiltrated IV

    Daytonite replied to Skyfel's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Impaired Tissue Integrity R/T infiltrated intravenous
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    Nursing Diagnosis/Care Plan Help

    Daytonite replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    "Health-seeking behaviors r/t preventing unplanned hospitalization aeb expressed concern about current health status and desire to prevent future threats to health status." First of all, you are not...
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    plz help, prioritising nursing dianoses!!!

    Daytonite replied to radhika33's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    the sequence should be as follows: ineffective airway clearance r/t excessive mucous secretion activity intolerance r/t shortness of breath imbalanced nutrition r/t dyspnea disturbed sleep pattern...
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    Help with care plans! nursing diagnosis.

    Daytonite replied to LatinaRN978's topic in General Students

    see https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans for more direction and help. you have not provided enough information for me to help
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    Strict Attendance Guidelines..

    Daytonite replied to RescueGrrl211's topic in General Students

    Employers listen to their accountants who are looking at the bottom line numbers. Welcome to
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    Strict Attendance Guidelines..

    Daytonite replied to RescueGrrl211's topic in General Students

    anyone wanna just commiserate with me about strict attendance policies? drag yourself in no matter how ill you are, take medications and tissues with you and take your midterm exam. you're a nursing...
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    Magnesium sulfate preeclampsia?

    Daytonite replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Students

    magnesium.doc - has the signs and symptoms of both hypo and hyper magnesemia the antidote for hypermagnesemia is to give calcium guconate
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    What to do now

    Daytonite replied to kachowell's topic in General Students

    Working as a CNA is not going to help you get a job as an RN. I was a manager who hired new grads. When we hired new grads the information we were primarily interested in was the reference we got...
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    Question for other BSN Students

    Daytonite replied to SnoopysAunt's topic in General Students

    My BSN program was about the same. If I had a full professor teaching a class we were expected to find and learn the information on our own. If we had an associate or instructor level teaching they...
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    Admission Essay

    Daytonite replied to simplie_lovable's topic in General Students

    does it matter in what order i reply to this questions. looking at the questions, i think the order is important, so, yes. if it does, how can i answer the first question, i mean i know my outlook...
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    Abbreviation Help

    Daytonite replied to Guerilla04's topic in General Students

    we have weblinks to online medical abbreviation sites where you can look these things up. you can find them on this sticky thread in the nursing student assistance forum:...
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    what would employers think???

    Daytonite replied to xXCaribbeanDiamondXx's topic in General Students

    Do not worry. Nurses training is very specific and there is no work you could have done before nursing school that any employer could consider on a resume to consider in giving you a nursing job....
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    Mental health care plan in ED

    Daytonite replied to jetstar's topic in General Students

    You've got two symptoms: pressure of speech (whatever that is) and easily irritated which can be turned into nursing diagnoses. And you have a husband who is concerned for her safety--any nursing...
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    Legal Question

    Daytonite replied to Leah236's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes. The answer to this will be in position statements on the state board sites. There are very specific things an RN must do when these situations arise and they involve priorizing and delegating...