Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    Potential Complications (list of)

    Daytonite replied to ajitamamasita's topic in General Students

    I'm not sure I understand what you are looking for. Use an example. If the nursing diagnosis is Impaired Physical Mobility what are you looking for complications of? By definition, the symptoms of...
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    Nursing Care Plan - need assistance

    Daytonite replied to stormbeige's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    nursing diagnosis: imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements related to inability to ingest food because of presence of cleft palate as evidenced by low hgb and hct and inadequate formation of...
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    Prioritzing my NANDAS!! HELP!!!!

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

    i may be critical, but i am not mean. i read every word you post and spend time and impart what little knowledge of care planning i have. i spend a great deal of time with care plan posts. you will...
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    Help with Head to Toe

    Daytonite replied to CarsonsMommy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    this is on post #19 9f this sticky: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/nursing-documentation-168921.html - nursing documentation. it was posted by vickyrn. i knew i had seen this!...
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    Help with Head to Toe

    Daytonite replied to CarsonsMommy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oh, I thought there were one or two examples of this on the assessment or documentation stickies. Did you find them? I'm sure I just saw it last
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    Help with Head to Toe

    Daytonite replied to CarsonsMommy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    someone over on the general nursing discussion forum posted a head-to-toe assessment website that also includes several videos of a nurse doing assessments. i added it to the head-to-toe assessment...
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    Prioritzing my NANDAS!! HELP!!!!

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

    i based the priority on maslow's hierarchy of needs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs) impaired gas exchange r/t ventilation-perfusion impairment aeb abnormal breathing...
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    Current student. Any suggestions?

    Daytonite replied to Bree0421's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    read the information and go on to the weblinks listed on this sticky thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/looking-test-taking-224581.html - looking for test taking strategies watch...
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    FAINTING...what made you drop?

    Daytonite replied to Music_Box_Dancer's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am tough and I've seen a lot including guys projectile vomiting blood clots and some of the worse looking and smelling wounds you would ever want to see on people's bodies. However, twice now I...
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    Nursing Care Plan - Brain Neoplasm

    Daytonite replied to Tampanian's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    bowel incontinence r/t decreased functional ability as evidence by inability to pass stool ( i wasnt sure if impaired cognitive ability was an appropriate factor here after taking into consideration...
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    Please help with Discharge Plan!

    Daytonite replied to Student4Now's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a discharge plan includes reviewing pretty much the same general orders you would have expected the doctor to write when a patient is admitted: their diet allowed physical activity medications they...
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    Nursing Care Plan - Brain Neoplasm

    Daytonite replied to Tampanian's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    diagnosis is based upon the abnormal symptoms that the patient has. these are found by assessment of the patient. i went through the data you posted and i have some questions since this patient is...
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    Care plan for neonate

    Daytonite replied to Jleighw's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    every nursing diagnosis just like every medical diagnosis has a list of patient behaviors called cues or symptoms that we can observe and are characteristic of that specific nursing problem. nanda...
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    Nursing diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to kval07's topic in Pediatric

    in order to turn a medical diagnosis into a nursing diagnosis you must first break the medical diagnosis into its component symptoms. this is an infection of the upper respiratory tract, often the...
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    Interpreting ABG's

    Daytonite replied to jschut's topic in General Students

    ask your instructors to define these terms exactly how they mean them so there is no confusion. i can show you how to interpret abgs using the 3-step method which is tried and true and there are...
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    Pathos for care plan

    Daytonite replied to BrandiKay1225's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    this website lists the pathophysiology for almost all diseases or conditions that you look up in it: merck manual of diagnosis and therapy http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp you can...
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    Foley Catheter as a Gastrostomy Tube?

    Daytonite replied to Student4Now's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    when i worked in a nursing home we often used foley catheters as replacements for gastrostomy tubes that patients might have pulled out because it was all we had available. try googling gastrostomy...
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    Desperately Need Help With Care Plans

    Daytonite replied to LVN2006's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    There is a nursing diagnosis that specifically handles a case like this. Having a nursing diagnosis reference (not just a list of the nanda diagnoses) that contains the definition, defining...
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    Nursing Care Plan - need assistance

    Daytonite replied to stormbeige's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    nursing diagnosis: impaired gas exchange related to low rbc count as evidenced by pallor on the face and fingers, and dyspnea. this diagnosis is used when the patient has a respiratory problem and...
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    Interpreting ABG's

    Daytonite replied to jschut's topic in General Students

    Never heard of partial uncompensated, only compensated and partially compensated. When analyzing you are not going to be asked if the ABGs are compensated or not. You will be asked if you have...
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    Whats the diff. between protocols and critical pathways?

    Daytonite replied to NewTheoryRC's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    A critical pathway is a type of care plan that details for the nursing staff what they are to be doing each day for a specific patient nursing problem until it is solved. A clinical guideline is...
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    nursing abbreviations

    Daytonite replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    There is no set rule. The rule is what your facility says it wants you to follow, so you need to be aware of what your facility policy and procedure is regarding the use of your initials and...
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    who gets medical records for dead/retired doctors offices?

    Daytonite replied to keithjones's topic in General Nursing

    we learned this when i studied health information management. state laws regulate the retention of medical records. if the doctor sells his practice the medical records can be passed on to the doctor...
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    Interpreting ABG's

    Daytonite replied to jschut's topic in General Students

    compensated - whenever the ph is within normal limits, but the co2 and/or hco3 are abnormal partially compensated - the ph is abnormal (there is acidosis or alkalosis) and the co2 and/or hco3 are...
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    RN-BSN Questions

    Daytonite replied to 2010NRS's topic in General Students

    If your goal is to become a CRNA or an ANP there is a very strong possibility that your CRNA or ANP programs will require college level chemistry and statistics, so you will need these classes...