Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    questions!

    Daytonite replied to wjddnjs's topic in General Students

    this is a problem solving situation and you can use the nursing process to help you solve it. recognize that ordering antibiotics are a medical treatment. doctors would order antibiotics if they had...
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    Disease and disorders

    Daytonite replied to Michael Gray's topic in General Students

    there is a sticky thread on allnurses that has all this: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/medical-disease-information-258109.html - medical disease...
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    transfusions and tubing

    Daytonite replied to Amy2005's topic in General Students

    Yes, except that you don't want too much fluid running into some people or they will go into congestive failure, so be very careful how much of this saline you let run into the
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    Questions please!!!!

    Daytonite replied to senfly's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    question 40: provide examples of statements or questions that the nurse may use in the following techniques: a. providing information. i'm going to explain how your x-ray is going to be done...
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    Which of the following nursing diagnoses is correct for a client with a three cm red

    Daytonite replied to eas78's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    read the question carefully: which of the following nursing diagnoses is correct for a client with a three cm area on the skin over the sacrum unrelieved by pressure change? a. risk for tissue...
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    i have a question...

    Daytonite replied to gieEe's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    see this thread on how to construct a nursing care plan: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans. the 5 nursing care plans you are talking...
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    transfusions and tubing

    Daytonite replied to Amy2005's topic in General Students

    Attach a bag of NS to the line where the bag of blood hangs (You may need to empty this bag of NS first before attempting this wash). Then clamp the IV below where these 2 lines connect. Lower the...
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    I need YOUR help/advice

    Daytonite replied to NewRNdreams's topic in General Nursing

    There is no way one employer can know about another place you worked unless the facility is owned by the same corporation. If you don't tell them you worked at this one place for 2.5 weeks they will...
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    Nursing Diagnosis (hypokalemia)-help?

    Daytonite replied to arilskee's topic in General Students

    you have not provided enough information. do you have any other assessment data, especially for the low potassium? see the many other symptoms of hypokalemia on this document: potassium.doc. a...
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    Another Drug Dosage Question

    Daytonite replied to cingram03's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    problem #1: shawn is to receive 350 ml d5 1/4 ns with 2 meq khpo4/100ml of fluid over a 24 hour period. the fluid is available only in 250 ml bags. how much khpo4 will you add to each bag? your...
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    TEAS test help

    Daytonite replied to hellotonyyang's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    see the new york regent's exam prep home page http://regentsprep.org/ and click on the link "english exam outline". you will find several types of assistance there for study preparation. there are...
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    Chronic Renal Failure patho

    Daytonite replied to Bree0421's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Congratulations! I'm proud of you! When you understand the pathophysiology it makes a big difference in determining and putting together the nursing diagnoses, doesn't it?
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    Manager Problems

    Daytonite replied to bdrfnurse's topic in General Nursing

    i was a manager. it is hard to answer you when you do not give any specifics. "aides not performing their duties and have been targeted ever since" isn't much to go on. all i can offer you is to...
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    Need help learning how to do meds calculations

    Daytonite replied to finallyhere's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You have to stop thinking about those things. Think about what you have to do. Picture success. Have a Plan B, but work on Plan
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    Bariatric Surgery-Need Advice

    Daytonite replied to MedSurgeMess's topic in General Nursing

    Clarification. . .I had a silastic Roux-N-Y surgery. The silastic band at the anastamosis of the gastric pouch and the small intestine is to prevent too much enlargement and stretching of the gastric...
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    Help, help, help

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

    use my critical thinking flow sheet for nursing students to study the individual medical diseases and conditions. with diseases and conditions (and this will hold true for pediatrics, psych and ob as...
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    needing advice

    Daytonite replied to Soon to be an RN's topic in General Students

    do as many physical assessments as you can to prepare. read as many physician h&ps as you can to get an idea of what physicians end up noting in their final write ups. read as much about what...
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    Need help learning how to do meds calculations

    Daytonite replied to finallyhere's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    staying up until 3 am isn't the way to stress yourself to learn. you will learn better if you break this up into shorter learning sessions and take breaks. see the learning advice on...
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    Growing concerns about new RN position

    Daytonite replied to DaisyB123's topic in General Nursing

    if they all happened on the same day--quit. night shift handed off two pts to me, one with a glucose of 388 and the other with a blood glucose of 279. accucheck was done at 0600...neither pt was...
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    Bariatric Surgery-Need Advice

    Daytonite replied to MedSurgeMess's topic in General Nursing

    i'm happy that you are finding that you can lose weight on your own. however, you need to know that the people who have had wls and develop malnutrition, malabsorption, or other similar problems from...
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    Hi i'm new here

    Daytonite replied to CoolingOutNJ's topic in General Students

    read the information on these websites set up specifically for people who want to go into nursing: http://www.discovernursing.com/ http://www.nln.org/careers/resources.htm - nlns resources page for...
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    Nervous about Long term care Clinical Orientation/Clinicals

    Daytonite replied to Nightingale11's topic in General Students

    don't worry about the other people in your class and how they measure up to you in terms of seriousness or maturity. just worry about yourself. that is quite enough to be concerned about. make a...
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    Need help learning how to do meds calculations

    Daytonite replied to finallyhere's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    finallyhere. . .there are free online med calc tutorials that you can do that will give you another perspective and one of them just may click the lightbulb on in your brain for you. they are listed...
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    nursing care plans for dementia pt

    Daytonite replied to twins03's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    here in the u.s. we follow the steps of the nursing process to care plan. you actually have given me all the necessary information to put a care plan together for this patient. using the nursing...
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    Help with organization?

    Daytonite replied to nohika's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i generally remember what's due when. i'm trying to figure out ways to keep myself using the planner i am not sure i understand the problem. do you end up forgetting when things are due? (that's a...