Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    Medical Coding Student needs Med. Billing extern job

    Daytonite replied to 10ACGIRL's topic in General Students

    What I meant is that when you walk in to places to apply for coding jobs, part of the application process is that they will probably give you a coding test to complete in about an hour or two along...
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    Help with getting through the last year of school. Need advice.

    Daytonite replied to h1hasinai's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It is just another viewpoint to add to your perspective that you carry within you. It helps define how you will practice as a nurse. If you like it, you take the parts of it you like and carry them...
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    renal cancer

    Daytonite replied to ren3741LPN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    renal cancer is a medical diagnosis made by a physician based on performing an examination, medical testing and analyzing the presenting signs and symptoms as well as the data from the tests and...
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    diluting meds??

    Daytonite replied to mamaRN-09's topic in General Students

    My drug reference says that for Ranitidine to be given IV push 50 mg needs to be diluted (mixed with) 20 mL of NS and then the resulting amount injected over 5 minutes. If the 50 mg of ranitidine is...
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    Medical Coding Student needs Med. Billing extern job

    Daytonite replied to 10ACGIRL's topic in General Students

    I have been a medical coder. Your instructors should be able to help you. One of the things they should have told you is that the first coding job is the hardest to find. You must look and look and...
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    DOES ANYONE KNOW?

    Daytonite replied to anurse2b's topic in General Students

    It's called taking the LPN exam by educational equivalency and not all state boards allow it. Exceptions may be personnel trained by the military. The way I have ever been able to find out if it is...
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    So so so Confused!

    Daytonite replied to hisGirl25's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If your husband is unable to work because of epilepsy he should be looking into filing for federal disability. If approved, there is a monthly check from social security and additional SSI payments...
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    Help with getting through the last year of school. Need advice.

    Daytonite replied to h1hasinai's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    hang in there! the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. education is a progressive discovery of our own
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    books!

    Daytonite replied to Stephanieee's topic in General Students

    Call the school and ask to talk with a first semester instructor. Ask which books you absolutely need for the start of school. Many of these books are going to be used throughout the remainder of...
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    ICU tips?

    Daytonite replied to miniangel729's topic in General Students

    a very practical suggestion for the keeping all the tubings straight. . .put your fingers around where they start and gently run down them to see where they end before you do anything with them. i...
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    please help!! starting clinicals-question for GN or nursing student.

    Daytonite replied to ermill2's topic in General Students

    I worked as a nursing assistant on the weekend night shift in a nursing home during my second year of RN school to help pay for my apartment rent. (We didn't have CNA designation in those days. CNAs...
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    So so so Confused!

    Daytonite replied to hisGirl25's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    every college has a college catalog that lists out the requirements to earn a degree from their school. within the catalog are the specific requirements as well for a major in a specific department...
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    Help with getting through the last year of school. Need advice.

    Daytonite replied to h1hasinai's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    kim. . .if you are thinking that rn nursing is primarily about helping, caring, and nursing patients from giving meds to changing briefs you got incorrect information. rns are problem solvers and...
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    Any Interview tips here ? please.....

    Daytonite replied to shiina,RN's topic in General Students

    what are the typical questions that will be asked? how would your best friend describe you? what type of qualities do you possess that would make you a good cna? what are your best and worst...
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    is gliclazide listed in your drug book? please help w/info!

    Daytonite replied to calypte's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    In the U.S. this is glimepiride (brand name Amaryl) and glipizide (grand name Glucotrol), a 2nd generation antidiabetic sulfonylurea. Here are the nursing considerations for it from my copy of 2007...
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    OB diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to Laurinq's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    pt: 36 y/o f gravida 2 t0p0a1l0 estimated @ 40 weeks gestation in labor; cervical ripening done w/ cervadil then labor induced w/ pitocin @ 8mu/min; catheter placed; epidural placed at 4 cm dilation;...
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    Fluid and electrolytes....AHHH!!!

    Daytonite replied to dmfisher86's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes. Hypovolemia, however, refers to diminished blood volume and is a term that is used when there has been hemorrhage and a large loss of blood. It includes the loss of a lot of other things that are...
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    Fluid and electrolytes....AHHH!!!

    Daytonite replied to dmfisher86's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    the reason for treating hyponatremia is to replace sodium. the dilemma of treatment is to replace sodium as quickly as possible without pulling the remaining water out of the cells while doing so....
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    Please Help Me With A Teaching Care Plan!!!!

    Daytonite replied to shanec98's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    first of all, kids respond well to games, so i would adapt any teaching into a game format in order to hold their attention. depending on the age group keep in mind their milestone development and...
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    How did you remember the nursing process?

    Daytonite replied to TankerBug's topic in General Nursing

    the nursing process is a series of 5 steps we use to solve a problem. the process can be used in the real world to solve problems as well. this is my analogy of the nursing process applied to a real...
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    Please help me. Im a new student and Im kind of freaking out

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

    you have enough information. a diagnosis can only be made based upon assessment information. assessment yields abnormal data. assessment consists of obtaining as much of the following as possible...
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    Nursing Priority: Who to see first?

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

    patient d: just underwent a turp procedure - 50 y/o male - bedbound. see first since they just had a turp. turp is a surgical procedure that could have the following complications: hemorrhage,...
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    Help with this dos calc conversion

    Daytonite replied to Student4Now's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    the question is 4 t= ? fl. oz there are some conversion tables you can pull up on post #2 of this sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/nursing-math-thread-264395.html - the...
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    how do you deal with a patient who...

    Daytonite replied to bdbrdb's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    the patient's problem is confusion. giving her medications first only deals with her physical symptoms, but not her disorientation. a person's bewilderment can be trying on you, especially when you...
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    How often do couples die within days of each other?

    Daytonite replied to KY RN's topic in General Nursing

    i heard dr. laura state on her program not so long ago that the statistical average was 18 months between the deaths of spouses. my sils parents went 18 months between them almost precisely to the...