Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    placenta accreta

    Daytonite replied to mirojs's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    (1) i am not a man. (2) i don't have examples of flowcharts. (3) how does it help if i do all of your work for you? (4) i think it is disrespectful and immature to use a word like "hate" in regard to...
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    CPR question

    Daytonite replied to SANART11's topic in General Students

    The person to be asking is the one who is giving this cpr training day and awarding the BLS certificates. Get in touch with them. Tell them what kind of certificate you have and ask them your...
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    Dimensional Analysis problem

    Daytonite replied to ICAN!'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    kcl 5 meq is to be added to 500 ml's of d5w and infused at 40 ml. per hour. kcl is supplied in a 10 ml. ampule containing 20 meq per ml. how many ml's of kcl should be added to the iv bag?...
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    Can they fire you after they hire you??

    Daytonite replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    i was a manager, so i have some experience with this. an employer can fire you for just about any reason that prevents you from doing the job you were hired to do. i. . .have had a mild health...
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    Do whiners make it through nursing school?

    Daytonite replied to tuchipie's topic in General Students

    It's amazing, isn't it? And then, you have the students that stand around and jabberjaw about everyone else and how much better they are. How they do what they are told, follow the rules, get pats...
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    What is normal serum ammonia level?

    Daytonite replied to Nuieve's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    nclex prints details of the what is on the test on their website so you know what to expect. this is the current one for the nclex-rn: know laboratory values for abgs (ph, po2, pco2, sao2, hco3) bun,...
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    Hypertension & Nursing Diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to labcat01's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You need read about what is going on medically with this patient so you understand what is happening before attempting to do your own diagnosing of her nursing problems. Pre-eclampsia that progresses...
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    Need help with nursing CV

    Daytonite replied to skyQ's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The point of a CV is to list what you have accomplished. You are trying to get the reader interested in you without being pretentious. Discuss your philosophies at an interview if and when you are...
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    Help with Assessments

    Daytonite replied to TankerBug's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    it seems like a lot of information, but it is done head-to-toe primarily because people found that very little gets forgotten about that way. it is a visual way to check that you covered every body...
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    Please Help Me With A Teaching Care Plan!!!!

    Daytonite replied to shanec98's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Have you taken your growth and development class yet? Guess you haven't gotten to the part where you find out that we begin learning while in the uterus and stop learning the moment we draw our last...
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    Workin part time while going to nursing school???

    Daytonite replied to VentcSN's topic in General Nursing

    I worked as a nursing assistant in a nursing home 3 days a week during my last year of nursing school to help pay bills and one of my classmates moved in with me. We had a blast. Most nursing homes...
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    Goal Setting documentation in the ED

    Daytonite replied to needsmore$'s topic in Emergency

    goal setting sounds very similar to soap(ie)® charting where a plan of action is formulated. soap charting is problem-oriented. the "p" is the plan for relieving the patient's problems, including...
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    Starting clinicals....

    Daytonite replied to CrunchyMama's topic in General Students

    That is exactly the way it was done at my community college program 35 years ago. We didn't have the fail business, however. My class was small enough that they would have assigned another student...
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    When a past patient passes away

    Daytonite replied to kfarinato's topic in General Students

    if you work on units where there are code blues or patients who are terminal you face death from time to time. i worked in a nursing home as an aide. i learned to deal with death very early in my...
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    Differences Between Rheumatoid and Osteoarthritis

    Daytonite replied to david.cummiskey's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I will gladly give you all mine, especially my cancer. Send me your
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    placenta accreta

    Daytonite replied to mirojs's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a search of the allnurses website would have gotten you to this thread: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/pathophysiology-placenta-increta-326630.html - pathophysiology for placenta...
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    Dosage Calculation Assistance

    Daytonite replied to tiff82's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    this really isn't much different than if the "bag" were a human being that was getting the injection. instead of putting the injection of kcl or aminophylline into a human being, you are diluting it...
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    When a past patient passes away

    Daytonite replied to kfarinato's topic in General Students

    We had a patient we took care of for a year on our stepdown unit that eventually died. We got to know the family that visited. Some of us went to the funeral home viewing. We only stayed about 10...
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    Math for nurses

    Daytonite replied to elacer08's topic in General Students

    i took a lot of math classes. i was flunking math in the 7th grade. mostly because i wasn't paying attention and i had a mom who was like judge judy with a belt in her hand. when the teacher told...
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    Nursing is not what I thought...hate my job...need ur opinion

    Daytonite replied to dtermineddenise's topic in General Nursing

    i remember you posting on the student nurses forums. i worked on a stepdown (telemetry) unit for many years. i have always been very opposed to new grads working on these kinds of units and i would...
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    OB diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to Laurinq's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Look at inducing this way. . .if they don't induce, the baby doesn't come out. Women died years ago because of labor not starting or progressing. It does happen. OB problems were the #1 reason...
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    How to prepare for LVN/LPN school

    Daytonite replied to Christine2009's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    read the information on this thread: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/study-strategies-254733.html - study strategies some of these websites will be helpful as you get into studying...
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    Chronic Renal Failure patho

    Daytonite replied to Bree0421's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    dear heart. . .that came word for word from a supplemental nursing book that is printed by the people who publish the nursing journals and nursing made easy series of books. the best i can suggest...
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    Is it possible to successful in nursing school.....

    Daytonite replied to lala2287's topic in General Students

    Why don't you ask some of the quarter of a million licensed nurses in the U.S. who already made it through nursing
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    Chronic Renal Failure patho

    Daytonite replied to Bree0421's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    this has already been discussed on this forum. see https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/esrd-pathophysiology-278036.html - esrd