Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    Care plan for Ineffective Protection

    Daytonite replied to kris911's topic in General Students

    the thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans has a lot of information on constructing a care plan. using the nursing process and based...
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    Peds otitis media care plan

    Daytonite replied to Stearnsy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a care plan is about determining the patient's nursing problems as you find them at the moment in time you are caring for them--like a snapshot. each nursing diagnosis (nursing problem) is based on...
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    care plan for syncope

    Daytonite replied to juliechristie421's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    r/t means "related to" and refers to the etiology of the nursing problem. aeb means "as evidenced by" and refers to the evidence you have that proves the existence of the nursing problem. syncope is...
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    Nursing Interventions for Hypoglycemia

    Daytonite replied to sorin_sideways's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    step #1 - assess (collect data). mrs d is slumped over in her chair her breakfast is untouched in her tray she had her 7am insulin step #2 - problem determination she's had insulin and uneaten food...
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    I need help with interventions for risk of infection

    Daytonite replied to sallyjane's topic in General Nursing

    i answered this for you in your other post in the nursing student assistance forum:
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    Help with Assignment

    Daytonite replied to Moon Penguin's topic in General Students

    are you asking us to decide your topic for you? promoting and supporting sleep promoting and supporting personal hygiene promoting and maintaining skin integrity promoting and supporting adequate...
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    Peds care plan

    Daytonite replied to love2nurse23's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    developing a care plan involves applying the nursing process because what you are doing is ferreting out their nursing problems. the nursing process helps you do that in an organized way. you can see...
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    I need nursing interventions for infection

    Daytonite replied to sallyjane's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The nursing interventions for any "Risk for" diagnosis need to be: strategies to prevent the problem from happening in the first place monitoring for the specific signs and symptoms of this problem...
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    attending a school that needs to be shut down!

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

    Doxument and then send your documentation of the violations of their license to operate the school to the New Jersey Board of Nursing. It is the only way the board of nursing can have evidence to...
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    Approved medical abbreviations

    Daytonite replied to blagar3lsu's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    https://allnurses.com/need-help-abbreviations-medical-terminology-t64752/
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    extravasation vs. infiltration

    Daytonite replied to pmshiftrn's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    iv fluid will leak into surrounding tissues when the tissues are compressed or there is restriction of the blood flow. when ivs are on pumps that have enough pressure to push fluid past venous...
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    Help On Take Home Quiz - Activity Intolerance

    Daytonite replied to guest337992's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a client with a nursing diagnosis of activity intolerance has developed reddened areas on both heels and his coccyx. which if the following nursing interventions will most likely have the greatest...
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    math but not math

    Daytonite replied to dozndawg's topic in General Students

    You also posted these questions on The Nursing Math Thread and I posted answers to both your questions for
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    When is a Risk For nursing DX appropriate as a primary nursing DX?

    Daytonite replied to shelbias's topic in General Students

    about the only one i can think of is risk for suicide when it is known that the patient is liable to attempt to kill themselves. the risk for infection would be possible because an infection going...
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    Help me understand the difference

    Daytonite replied to artistnurse's topic in General Students

    what this means is that the patient has an iv bag of 1/2 normal saline continually infusing at some rate. the order for "morphine 8 mg iv push via infusing iv of half normal saline" merely means that...
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    Need some help with drip rate calculations!

    Daytonite replied to swil10's topic in General Students

    the physician orders pronestyl at 1 mg/min. the solution available is 1 gm pronestyl in 500 ml d5w. at what rate should the iv run if the drip factor is 60 gtts/ml? by dimensional analysis (factor...
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    help!!! I can't find these answers anywhere!

    Daytonite replied to nursing_student119's topic in General Students

    which rationale describes why the cusp valves are different from the valves at the pulmonary artery and aorta? select all that apply. a- chordi tendoni are needed to prevent back flow of blood into...
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    The Nursing Math Thread

    Daytonite replied to Tweety's topic in General Students

    question 1: order: nitroglycerin 0.4 mg sublingual every 5 minutes x3 as needed for chest pain. pharmacy sends you nitroglycerin 400mcg tablets. how many tablets will you adminster? this is a typical...
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    What orders would you question HELP!

    Daytonite replied to intensity_too's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Your instructions were not to assume information not provided, but HHNS really doesn't occur in anyone else but Type II diabetics. The diabetes may be a new diagnosis that is just being discovered...
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    Yet Another I.V. calculation problem!

    Daytonite replied to Cinqui73's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    (1) The dilution volume is the amount of liquid you will add to the medication (500 mg of medication in 3 mL) to bring it to 30 mL. That will be the 27 mL (27 mL + 3 mL = 30 mL) [An I.V. medication...
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    What orders would you question HELP!

    Daytonite replied to intensity_too's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This is most likely a Type II diabetic. A diabetic diet that controls the amount of carbs he's getting. The last thing he needs is concentrated sugars in his
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    First Care Plan CONFUSED

    Daytonite replied to DeLovely's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    in https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans i post about the construction of care plans all the time including the prioritization of the nursing...
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    Heart failure

    Daytonite replied to Stakey's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    "resolution of the acute heart failure situation" means that the symptoms of the condition will have been resolved or gone away. what would you expect to find when you assess the patient as opposed...
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    Help! Nursing diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to silverapple14's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Impaired Urinary Elimination R/T enlarging uterus and pressure on bladder AEB urinary
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    What orders would you question HELP!

    Daytonite replied to intensity_too's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    what orders would you question? lasix 60 mg bid glucose monitoring qd insulin by sliding scale regular diet with hhns (hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic coma) glucose levels continue to rise as...