Daytonite BSN, RN

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    Confused/Disoriented/crazy pt - subjective data????

    Daytonite replied to jconway45's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    if you look at a dictionary definition of "subjective" you will find this: "of, affected by, or produced by the mind or a particular state of mind; of subject, or person thinking, rather than the...
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    Care plan for diverticulitis

    Daytonite replied to dmfisher86's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    A care plan is a determination of a person's nursing problems and strategies to do something about them. A care plan can be done for a healthy person as well as for someone who is ill. A diagnosis is...
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    Helpless and hopeless

    Daytonite replied to laughingoutloud's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    interventions are based on the signs and symptoms that the patient has. the medical condition is depression. what are the other signs and symptoms of this depression? what is the actual nursing...
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    Critical Thinking is a Problem for Me...How Do You Do It?

    Daytonite replied to SnowRain7489's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    see this thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/need-help-exams-409242.html - need help with exams
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    Pressure Ulcer, CHF, & UTI r/t Foley

    Daytonite replied to WildFlowers84's topic in General Nursing

    Problem solve this. This is why we have the nursing process. Use it to your advantage. What is causing the pressure ulcer and what is going to make it worse? Then intervene in those causes. The...
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    bruits and hypertension

    Daytonite replied to Amy2005's topic in General Nursing

    you might want to take a terminology course. several free online ones are listed on post #19 of this sticky thread in the nursing stident assistance forum:...
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    Oakland University - MI. (Pathophysiology)

    Daytonite replied to ejcl68's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    thoughts and advice: don't know the specifics of this college's online class, but pathophysiology is a required component for critical thinking (problem solving) in nursing and care planning later in...
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    Easy way to remember ABG's?

    Daytonite replied to SerenityR.N.'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    this is a older thread. there is updated information on post #43 of the sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/pathophysiology-p-microbiology-145201.html - pathophysiology/ a...
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    How Important is Accreditation?

    Daytonite replied to Kels87's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    so does this look like its ok for lpn? yes. what i highlighted and bolded in red is your state board of nursing approval for this school to operate. without that this lpn school could not open its...
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    Pelvic Pain

    Daytonite replied to student1000's topic in General Nursing

    what has been most frustrating is how to describe the pain. to me, of course it has been very real. my docs, bless them, have addressed it with a straight face. because of my history of cancer and...
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    Need help in studying

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

    your way of studying shouldn't be any different from what you have been doing unless you have been having problems up to this point. when studying diseases the approach is always to review the normal...
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    Discouraged & pessimistic

    Daytonite replied to peanut25's topic in General Students

    we all make mistakes. all the time. we don't purposely go out and say, "let's see what mistake i can make today." it happens. and, sometimes we get very embarrassed about them. the embarrassment...
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    URGENT! Pharm. Help...Thx!

    Daytonite replied to scrublifenurse10's topic in General Students

    there are several links to lists of conversions on post #2 of this sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/nursing-math-thread-264395.html - the nursing math
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    Pelvic Pain

    Daytonite replied to student1000's topic in General Nursing

    Wanna hear my story about pelvic pain? I also had a total hysterectomy many years ago. I also had colon cancer in 2007 for which I had surgery and chemotherapy and have been followed regularly by an...
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    Math Problem that I need help with

    Daytonite replied to blynn9173's topic in General Students

    i suggest you pick one or more of the medication tutorials listed on post #2 of this sticky thread and work through one of them:...
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    Math Problem that I need help with

    Daytonite replied to blynn9173's topic in General Students

    order to infuse 200 ml of dextrose at rate of 10/hr. available tubing is micro drip --- how many gtts/min do you adjust for? you have to know that microdrip tubing has a drop factor of 60 drops/ml....
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    How do you study for Nursing Exams

    Daytonite replied to Dragtail's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    you also need to incorporate the nursing process as well as nursing and scientific principles when answering your exam questions. the questions won't always direct you to do this. you just have to...
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    The Nursing Math Thread

    Daytonite replied to Tweety's topic in General Students

    order: vitamin b12 0.75 mg im supply: vitamin b12 1,000 mcg per ml calculate the amount for one dose. by dimensional analysis (factor label method): 0.75 mg (dose desired)/1,000 mcg (dose on hand) x...
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    How do you study for Nursing Exams

    Daytonite replied to Dragtail's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i just want to add that reading notes is one thing, but there is an element to the testing that that no one has mentioned and that is critical thinking. you can read and memorize all you want, but if...
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    abg values

    Daytonite replied to mickeyfan's topic in General Students

    Who are you directing your comments to and what else is it that you need
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    Nursing Dx.

    Daytonite replied to tg102404's topic in General Nursing

    so you don't have to do the searching, here are previous threads on care planning regarding suicide that i think would be of interest for you to read. one contains nursing interventions that i...
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    Nursing Dx.

    Daytonite replied to tg102404's topic in General Nursing

    this is part of the patient assessment. . . if the patient is psychotic (risk for suicide r/t psychosis), then there are symptoms of psychosis present. what are they? break this disease down into...
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    Nursing Dx.

    Daytonite replied to tg102404's topic in General Nursing

    any diagnosis has to be based on the assessment information you have gathered about the patient. that is what makes their care structured to them. suicidal ideation is the medical diagnosis. nursing...
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    Physical Assessments: Do Any Nurses Do Them

    Daytonite replied to romie's topic in General Nursing

    so my question is, am i wasting my time physically assessing my patients? we can only be responsible for our own actions. what would your nursing instructors have told you? do what you know is the...
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    going for my RN

    Daytonite replied to hollyandsky's topic in General Students

    The two nursing jobs are not the same. While you may study many of the same things in an LPN program that are studied in an RN program it is what is done with the information that is very, very...