Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    Question About Nursing Programs

    Daytonite replied to Yvette22's topic in General Students

    try contacting your state and local hospital associations as well as the state board of nursing. they may know if any of these programs exist. it is usually the hospital associations that know of...
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    Documentation

    Daytonite replied to bdbrdb's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    see this sticky on the student forums. it links you into several examples of correct charting, has discussions about how to chart as well as a link to a website with exercises on how to chart...
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    Your observations

    Daytonite replied to illuminiti's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    They didn't follow the rules in clinical. They took risks with patients in clinical without care or concern for the safety of their patients. They only studied and learned the material that was easy...
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    Question About Nursing Programs

    Daytonite replied to Yvette22's topic in General Students

    Are you in California? Your profile doesn't say where you are. You must live in California for a year to be a resident of California and get the reduced resident tuition. I knew of one in...
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    please help!! starting clinicals-question for GN or nursing student.

    Daytonite replied to ermill2's topic in General Students

    Stop worrying. As long as your have your books and notes handy you can always look something up to refresh your memory. No one can remember everything. As you are introduced to each disease a brief...
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    A young student needs help!

    Daytonite replied to kmenhe's topic in General Students

    you need to read about nursing on these two websites which were specifically set up for people who want to be nurses, are looking for information about this career and need to know about getting the...
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    Care Plans Help Please! (with the R\T and AEB)

    Daytonite replied to RNinJune2007's topic in General Students

    You will not find one on the internet or allnurses to copy. Besides, that would be plagiarism. Begin by investigating the causes and pathophysiology of hypertension in pregnancy. The nursing problems...
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    please i'm begging for your help with dosage calculations im desperate

    Daytonite replied to scaredstudent05's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    there are online tutorials listed on post #2 of this sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/nursing-math-thread-264395.html - the nursing math thread. please check them out....
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    Some Help Please

    Daytonite replied to sml05's topic in General Nursing

    i have a niece who is a teacher. i have been an rn for over 30 years. we both teach in our jobs. there are politics in both. documentation is required in every job that make the "hands on" part of...
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    Side Effects of Meds

    Daytonite replied to feralnostalgia's topic in General Nursing

    if you are going to give friends information about medications you need to know yourself what information you are giving. reading from a text isn't the same as knowing. anyone can read some words....
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    Trouble getting into a nursing school.. hELP?

    Daytonite replied to lfox10's topic in General Students

    what else is required in the application process? are you having to write essays and tell why you want to be a nurse? they also deny admission if people if they do not think they have the...
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    Test without any use?

    Daytonite replied to DeLovely's topic in General Students

    the teas (test of essential academic skills) gives the school an idea of how much math, reading, english and science you know. the company can give them a statistical report on how well they think you...
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    Common mililiter conversions?

    Daytonite replied to kellyhutch's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    check on post #2 of https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/nursing-math-thread-264395.html. i thought i remember seeing something there in one of the
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    Help Understanding Test Question

    Daytonite replied to vmoh18's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    my feeling is that this was a question where the outcome was meant to be a reversal of the abnormal assessment data that was evidence of the diagnosis. i have talked about that before when explaining...
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    Nurse needing guidance

    Daytonite replied to AngelTM50's topic in General Nursing

    My CA was an undifferentiated adenocarcinoma and very aggressive, I was told. It was already in one lymph node. Surgery + chemo was ordered. The chemo is what finished it off. Colon cancer these days...
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    help with teas exam

    Daytonite replied to canigettherightinfo's topic in General Students

    teas (test of essential academic skills http://www.atitesting.com/default.aspx - the home page of the organization that writes and administrates this test. the test covers four general areas:...
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    Help Understanding Test Question

    Daytonite replied to vmoh18's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think this may go back to terminology and definition of the word "outcome", a discussion that has come up many times before here on the student forums. How do your instructors define the word...
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    Help Understanding Test Question

    Daytonite replied to vmoh18's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i looked at all the answer choices and thought about a care plan that would be designed for this patient. consuming enough calories (a) has to do with impaired nutrition: less than body requirements....
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    Help Understanding Test Question

    Daytonite replied to vmoh18's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a client's disturbance of body image is evidenced by her claims of feeling "fat" even though she is emaciated. the outcome criterion for this target behavior would be: a) consuming enough calories...
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    Pathophys or not?

    Daytonite replied to Murse7's topic in General Students

    If a particular school doesn't have a course in pathophysiology then the pathophysiology is incorporated in its nursing classes. My BSN program did not require a pathophysiology course. The...
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    CAN ANYONE ONE HELP

    Daytonite replied to chrissy student's topic in General Nursing

    there wouldn't be any problems if you posted your questions in the nursing student assistance forum (https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/). that is what that forum is for--to help...
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    Defining a term: plethora?

    Daytonite replied to Laurinq's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    plethora as defined by taber's is "overfullness of blood vessels or of the total quantity of any fluid in the body." it is a symptom. . .often of perinatal polycythemia and hyperviscosity syndrome or...
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    Please help with pharmacology suffixes!

    Daytonite replied to Kristing3's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Unfortunately, I do not. Try looking for a glossary in a pharmacology book in the library somewhere. I have never heard of a pharmacology class where these kinds of questions were
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    Please help with pharmacology suffixes!

    Daytonite replied to Kristing3's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    they should be in taber's--if not in the general listings, then in the appendix under "prefixes, suffixes and combining forms". try looking on global rph http://www.globalrph.com/. suffixes qualify...
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    LPN interview questions

    Daytonite replied to gold87's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    another student recently posted this: here is what they asked me at the admission interview: what type of qualities do you possess that would make you a good nurse? describe a situation where you...