Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    New Nursing Student

    Daytonite replied to Kesteban's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    see, in the sticky threads: https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/study-strategies-254733.html - study strategies...
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    care plan for battered woman, need experienced nurses help!!

    Daytonite replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    that is the nature of nursing diagnoses. they are very broad and depending on how you tweak them one can be just as good to use as another as long as you keep within the parameter of the nursing...
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    education/teaching diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to GM910's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    deficient knowledge, specify means absence or deficiency of cognitive information related to a specific topic. you need to define what your topic is going to be. that, like any other nursing...
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    Need help w/ 2 math problems!!!

    Daytonite replied to Pretty in Ink's topic in General Students

    1000ml d5w iv to infuse @ 25gtt/min. the drop factor is 15gtt/ml. flow rate:_______________ ml/h total infusion time:____________ hours 25 gtts/minute (drip rate) x 1 ml/15 gtts (drop factor of iv...
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    Medical Calculations

    Daytonite replied to stellatejido's topic in General Students

    a patient is admitted for treatment of an overdose of paracetamol. the patient weighs 58kg. acetylcysteine infusion is ordered. the available supply is a 20% solution in a 10ml vial. instructions in...
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    Help with Care Plans

    Daytonite replied to rn/writer's topic in General Students

    i saw your problem already when you posted "but can anyone think of a good medical diagnosis". a nursing care plan consists of nursing diagnoses which are nursing problems based upon the symptoms that...
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    assessment - vaginal birth infections (time sensitive)

    Daytonite replied to 9livesRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Prevention of Infection for a lady partslly delivered patient. Prevention will have to do with doing something about the cause of lady partsl infection. lady partsl infections are more likely to...
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    nursing care plan for HYPOKALEMIA plsss.

    Daytonite replied to dolphyrn's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    for clarification. . .an emergency protocol is still a physician's order. they are standing orders that have been approved by the medical staff of the facility. very specific conditions must be...
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    Drug Card Assignment

    Daytonite replied to Lorrie1964's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    all of the information that you need for a drug card is contained in a nursing drug reference book. there are a number of them that you can purchase. your nursing program should have recommended one...
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    Need help writing a Journal Note for Geri.

    Daytonite replied to cookio11's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I worked with geriatric patients for many years. I'm sure there are a few things I
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    Please someone help

    Daytonite replied to cleo777's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    did you look at the thread i had suggested above? step 1 assessment - assessment consists of: a health history (review of systems) - the patient had a tbi (traumatic brain injury) and his memory,...
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    How to keep ideals intact when dealing with the realities of nursing?

    Daytonite replied to swirlything's topic in General Nursing

    You just stick to your guns. It's when you start cutting corners that you start slipping over to the other (Dark) side. Ha! Ha! It takes a strong, confident self-esteem to practice what you...
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    RN's critcal thinking

    Daytonite replied to skandy's topic in General Nursing

    what are some examples of critical thinking nurses have to deal with on a daily basis? it sounds like you are not in nursing school yet. that makes it difficult to give you an example of the kind of...
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    care plan for battered woman, need experienced nurses help!!

    Daytonite replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    you need to look at a nursing diagnosis reference (the nanda taxonomy) that includes the definition, defining characteristics, and related factors for each nursing diagnosis. just as you read about...
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    care plan for battered woman, need experienced nurses help!!

    Daytonite replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, Don. You know, it used to scare me that there were so many people read what I posted. If people only knew that I am sitting in a quite little corner with a pile of books around me. I really...
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    morphine infusion, what will you do

    Daytonite replied to jchan0425's topic in General Students

    mrs sachett 6 hours post op following hemicolectomy. she has a morphine infusion presently running as a background infusion of 2mg/hr and she describes her pain as 3/10 with respiratory rate of 14,...
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    Help with Care Plans

    Daytonite replied to rn/writer's topic in General Students

    hi, mary! did you read some of the other posts on this thread? the first thing you need to do is break your data down and classify it. . .step 1 assessment - assessment consists of: a health history...
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    care plan for battered woman, need experienced nurses help!!

    Daytonite replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    i am glad my explanations are helpful for you. i have a number of others that explain the nursing process and how to construct a nursing diagnostic statement that i think are posted on the help with...
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    care plan for battered woman, need experienced nurses help!!

    Daytonite replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    Simply note exactly what you observe on your history. If the patient doesn't look you in the eyes when you are talking with them, then state that on the care plan under the assessment along with self...
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    What education is needed to become a nurse?

    Daytonite replied to Michelle_H's topic in General Students

    Years ago when I was in high school (the 1960s) we took a College preparatory group of classes and were told to take the highest level of each subject: 4 years of English (grades 9 - 12) Math: Basic...
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    Rn to BSN

    Daytonite replied to mtheiss84's topic in General Students

    I would listen to your counselor. Every university has its requirements for its bachelors degree and the "S" in BSN stands for "Science" so you can be sure that your upper degree credits are going to...
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    What education is needed to become a nurse?

    Daytonite replied to Michelle_H's topic in General Students

    biology, algebra and chemistry would all be good to take in high school. you may also need to take college level classes in them again depending on the level of nursing you will study for: lpn or rn....
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    care plan for battered woman, need experienced nurses help!!

    Daytonite replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    a lot of what you are posting is assessment (data collection) information that is part of step #1 of the nursing process. some of it is useful for the care plan and some isn't. you also have to...
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    care plan help for violence, other directed

    Daytonite replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Students

    i just read your post on the general nursing discussion forum. this case gets better and better, doesn't it? sarcasm intended. ok. take a photo of a point in time that you want to base this care...
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    IV Spike Prime Time

    Daytonite replied to liser79's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Maybe because I'm getting old now, but I keep waiting for the day when the electricity goes out and the emergency generator runs out of gas. Heh! Heh! Then, What will we do? 1 - 2 - 3 - 4. .