Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    Care Plan... please help!

    Daytonite replied to nicole735's topic in General Students

    HYPOTHERMIA IN THE NEWBORN "Hypothermia of the newborn is due more to lack of knowledge than to lack of equipment. Incorrect care of the baby at birth is the most important factor influencing the...
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    Growth and Development Nursing Diagnosis Question

    Daytonite replied to Starfish1's topic in General Students

    What is the medical diagnosis or etiology for the growth delay and will the problem continue? That is a big part of the choice
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    nursing diagnosis help

    Daytonite replied to GM910's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i gave you a very detailed reply to your other thread which you should look at and apply the concepts to this case. first of all you have omitted a great deal of assessment information and all you...
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    Risk for injury care plan

    Daytonite replied to dmfisher86's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    not to be insolent here, but what other information do you have about the patient because there are reasons that this person fell and they need to be identified. the gait dysfunction, for one, should...
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    nursing diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to tgreen1971's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    the most common question in relation to care planning that gets asked on this forum is how to determine nursing diagnoses and i address it all the time. i was just talking to a physician friend of...
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    Impaired skin integrity or risk for??

    Daytonite replied to intensity_too's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    when you are doing a care plan it is like taking a snapshot of the patient except that instead of getting a picture you are determining their nursing problems. the care plan is then a determination...
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    First TIme Care Plan Help Needed - DM

    Daytonite replied to myrtbb's topic in General Students

    see this thread in the nursing assistant discussions forum on construction of care plans: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans. you need to...
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    recommend/good careplan book for OB and Ped?

    Daytonite replied to miniangel729's topic in General Students

    care plans for ob: maternal/newborn plans of care: guidelines for individual care, 3rd edition, by marilynn e. doenges and mary frances moorhouse care plans for peds: the disc that comes with the book...
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    PICC line help!

    Daytonite replied to Rooks22's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    see post #5 on this thread: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/any-good-iv-127657.html - any good iv therapy or nursing procedure web sites. there are weblinks to picc line sites that...
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    Nursing diagnosis help...please!

    Daytonite replied to GM910's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    you need to see this allnurses thread on construction of care plans: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans a care plan is a collection of the...
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    Dealing With the Patient in Pain

    Daytonite replied to mbrnstudent's topic in General Nursing

    a question for anyone... i'm a nursing student in my last semester of my rn program, and i'm still trying to perfect my communication with, sometimes difficult, patients. in a clinical situation, i...
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    Care Plan Help

    Daytonite replied to Peachez8207's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    You have to remember to assess the total child. The sacral dimple stood out from the other stuff and probably shut off the rest of your thinking process. You can also back into abnormal assessment...
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    Care Plan Help

    Daytonite replied to Peachez8207's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    is he breastfeeding? effective breastfeeding r/t normal infant oral structure aeb eagerness to nurse and contentment after feeding. if there are breastfeeding problems, use ineffective breastfeeding....
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    Client Story: A 60-year-old woman resides alone with her husband in a house.

    Daytonite replied to eas78's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    diagnoses impaired physical mobility r/t neurological impairment secondary to stroke aeb inability to move her left arm or leg. definition: limitation in independent, purposeful physical movement of...
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    Client Story: A 60-year-old woman resides alone with her husband in a house.

    Daytonite replied to eas78's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    she suffered a stroke and is now unable to move her left arm or leg. the stroke left her speech slurry. she has hypertension and is obese. she currently takes no prescription medications. using the...
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    First year nursing student

    Daytonite replied to munozg23's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think some of us felt that way at one time or another, especially if the instructors come into the first days of class talking to us like we've been nurses for years and we haven't a clue what they...
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    Trouble hearing BP sounds, help

    Daytonite replied to seasoned hopeful's topic in General Students

    it is a matter of training your ear of what to listen for. there is an online virtual b/p cuff you can play around with for practice: the virtual blood pressure cuff: http://medicine.osu.edu/exam/ -...
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    HELP IV calculations

    Daytonite replied to sribell86's topic in General Students

    The question can't be completed because they left out the information about the drop factor of the IV tubing being used. The 250 mg of Levaquin has nothing to do with the
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    Client Story: A 60-year-old woman resides alone with her husband in a house.

    Daytonite replied to eas78's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    self care deficit related to left-sided weakness 2nd to cva aeb inability to purposefully move left arm or leg. this diagnosis completely wrong. read the scenario again. there is nothing in there...
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    Dopamine Calculations

    Daytonite replied to Purestofhearts's topic in General Students

    My mistake. Then the answer will be: 10 mcg/kg (dose desired) 250 mL/0.4 gram (dose on hand) x 135 pounds (patient weight)/minute (other part of dose desired fraction that needs to be included in...
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    Dopamine Calculations

    Daytonite replied to Purestofhearts's topic in General Students

    See
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    Client Story: A 60-year-old woman resides alone with her husband in a house.

    Daytonite replied to eas78's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Start by taking this information: She suffered a stroke and is now unable to move her left arm or leg. The stroke left her speech slurry. She has hypertension and is obese. She currently takes no...
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    Postoperative case study

    Daytonite replied to intense0120's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a 70 year old female is admitted for changes in bowel/bladder function. initial lab work was wnl. baseline vital signs were 124/62, hr 84, rr 20, t 98.4. a bowel resection is performed after the pt...
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    Help me with the patient care essay

    Daytonite replied to wjddnjs's topic in General Students

    in the case study, it doesn't tell us about that jack is anxious because of the pressure by his family wanting him to get married or he wants to please his family or anything like that. the scenario...
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    Full body Diagrams - HELP

    Daytonite replied to sh1901's topic in General Students

    there are links to body atlases and medical images on this thread (just above the listing for the merck manuals):...