Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    Wound Discrepancy & Fill-in-the-blank

    Daytonite replied to guest337992's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a review of the data indicates a discrepancy between the measurement of a client's wound by the nurse (2cm) and the wound care team (3cm). the best initial action by the nurse will be to: a. leave a...
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    Silly question but....whats the difference?

    Daytonite replied to Student4Now's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    A wet to dry dressing is when there is a open wound and the first dressings applied to the wound are wet--often the sterile gauze has been made wet (not sopping wet, but moist) with saline or hydrogen...
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    HELP!!-- Care plan first one for med-surg

    Daytonite replied to mfatony's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    #1. . .there is no official NANDA diagnosis of Impaired Walking. #2. . .even if there were, your nursing interventions would be based on treating the symptoms and perhaps even address the cause that...
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    URGENT HELP!! with Risk Factors in the Nursing Diagnosis.....

    Daytonite replied to dfkatl's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This definition is directly from NANDA: Risk factors are "environmental factors and physiological, psychological, genetic, or chemical elements that increase the vulnerability of an individual, family...
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    Nursing Diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to LexiStudent's topic in General Nursing

    first of all, there is a thread in the student forums to help with the construction of care plans that you should be looking at:...
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    Cliques in Nursing School

    Daytonite replied to KMC-RN-BSN-710's topic in General Students

    you are there to learn nursing. if you make a friend or two that is nice, but it is not why you are there. at the end of your life if you still have contact with people you knew through the years it...
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    Health Problems for new born babies

    Daytonite replied to thatsforreal's topic in General Students

    Preterm birth is always an unavoidable possibility Persistent fetal circulation Physical injury: laceration, bruising, other
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    Need advice re: expectations during clinicals

    Daytonite replied to Patricia1101's topic in General Students

    Can't give you guidance or help if you don't tell us what these specific problems are that you are having in
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    HELP!!-- Care plan first one for med-surg

    Daytonite replied to mfatony's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a care plan is about determining the person's nursing problems. nursing problems develop as the patient responds to their medical problems and living situation. most of what you told us is all about...
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    L&D Nursing: How would you answer this pt's question?

    Daytonite replied to LoveLei's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It was done to help move the labor and birth
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    Help with Sterile Dressing Change

    Daytonite replied to Student4Now's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Well, that's kind of carrying the sterile principle a bit far. Technically, it's touching sterile to sterile that keeps the field sterile. The way you are implying, just being open to the air, the...
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    Help, Diagnosing Acid-Base Imbalance.

    Daytonite replied to brittany_micah's topic in General Students

    there are a list of weblinks including abg tutorials and practice problems on post #43 of this sticky thread:...
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    Postpartum diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to care4u2010's topic in General Students

    a nursing diagnosis is a name placed on a nursing problem. to have a problem there must be evidence of it which is why the assessment is done. during assessment we find what is abnormal and those...
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    OB careplan help

    Daytonite replied to stephynic21's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a nursing problem (nursing diagnosis) is always based upon evidence that you have to support that it exists. the construction of the nursing diagnostic statement follows this format: p (problem) - e...
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    First Nursing Exam Next Week and I'm Terrified!

    Daytonite replied to HappyMeNow's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    see the information on this sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/looking-test-taking-224581.html - looking for test taking strategies a "study guide" usually means getting a...
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    Care plan help

    Daytonite replied to Schmoo1022's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    yes, to keep in compliance, make an entry like you did that is dated with your nursing order under the proper nursing problem (nursing diagnosis). i used a care plan book by carpenito for years when...
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    No Medical Experience to Nurse

    Daytonite replied to mbrnstudent's topic in General Students

    lots of people start out in nursing with no previous experience. it has no effect on how they turn out as rns. i've been an rn for over 30 years and had no experience in healthcare before going to...
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    Fluid and Electrolytes! Help please!

    Daytonite replied to thatsforreal's topic in General Students

    some of this is explained on this thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/need-help-hyper-252786.html - need help with hyper, hypo, and isotonic solutions? also review your class notes....
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    !!! I need help!!!!!! please.. prenatal case study

    Daytonite replied to milkee_0923's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    the questions are pretty clear and straight forward. i would look for internet resources that that have information on diet and vitamins for pregnancy. folic acid is usually one of the big...
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    breathing and cardio sounds

    Daytonite replied to lder0426's topic in General Students

    the weblinks to them are listed on posts #17 and #40 of this sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/health-assessment-resources-145091.html - health assessment resources,...
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    NCCLEX...

    Daytonite replied to p_aq09's topic in International Nursing

    the nclex is the licensing exam to get an rn license to practice nursing in one of the u.s. states, not a seminar. the organization that administrates the nclex exam is the national council of state...
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    am i wrong

    Daytonite replied to becky5438's topic in General Students

    sounds like exactly what i was doing in when i was in nursing school back in 1973-1975. guess things never change. after some time you do have to read less because some of the stuff starts to be...
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    question about minors and a right to privacy during a prenatal exam...

    Daytonite replied to shrimpchips's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Since this is about minor's right to privacy, I would ask the minor if she wants her mom in the room or not. I would also ask each to state the reason why they would want to mom to be present or...
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    Freaking out!!!

    Daytonite replied to msavlpn's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am not clear as to what you are asking. Help with your topic (which is unclear) or help with how to speak in front of a group. Didn't you take a speech class as a
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    Dehydration due to alcohol before surgery

    Daytonite replied to marie_22's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Not necessarily. I went into emergency surgery 2 weeks ago dehydrated. The surgery had to be done. I was given fluids and blood