Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    nursing admission essay help...edit??

    Daytonite replied to jreneex2's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    the construction and organization of your essay needs cleaning up: i am delighted to be under consideration for fall acceptance into the nursing education program at massasoit community college. (cut...
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    Blood Type Compatibility Question

    Daytonite replied to Shanimal's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Because you are giving AB+ blood to someone who doesn't have the Rh factor. Their O- blood recognizes that and begins the process to reject it. It all has to do with immunity. I'm surprised your...
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    Is it me? Serious disorganization in class and clinicals...vent

    Daytonite replied to DolceVita's topic in General Students

    leaders do not vent to everyone else about their problems and then expect others to do something about them. they take the bull by the horns and move up the chain of command like one of your...
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    The comparisons between total hip replacement and total knee replacement care

    Daytonite replied to deepurple's topic in General Students

    have you looked both of these procedures up online? there is a lot of information about them so that you should be able to find all kinds of information about the aftercare quite easily. one...
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    I want to know the role of the nurse in bone marrow aspiration

    Daytonite replied to TriniStudentNurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Each procedure will have different things that may need to be specifically for it, but for the most part many of the things the nurse does are the
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    Critical Thinking Shmitical Thinking

    Daytonite replied to caffeineRx's topic in General Nursing

    when the instructors refer to critical thinking they are referring to a number of different things that have to be considered when answering questions: the medical disease involved, it's normal...
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    Can I Get Some Help With Maslow's Needs?

    Daytonite replied to HappyMeNow's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    are you asking how a nursing diagnosis is classified by maslow's hierarchy of needs? several care plan and nursing diagnosis books have lists where they have already done this. first of all, be...
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    Need help with chemistry conversion factors

    Daytonite replied to cinder06's topic in General Nursing

    the daily dose of ampicillin for the treatment of an ear infection is 115mg ampicillin per kilogram of body weight (115mg/kg), what is the daily dose for a 27lb child? 115 mg/kg (dose desired) x 27...
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    Starting IV therapy for 1st time, eeek

    Daytonite replied to filimaica's topic in General Nursing

    see this thread on allnurses: https://allnurses.com/emergency-nursing/iv-tips-tricks-3793.html - iv tips and
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    Heart block help

    Daytonite replied to suni's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    you really need to understand the normal pathway of the electrical conduction of the heart because blocks are a disruption of that conduction. if you understand the pathophysiology, then the symptoms...
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    Freaking out!

    Daytonite replied to StudentNurseEP's topic in General Students

    see the information on this thread: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/looking-test-taking-224581.html - looking for test taking
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    care plan help please!!!!

    Daytonite replied to nursingstu101's topic in General Students

    all care plans start by you assessing the patient and listing out the abnormal data. it is the abnormal data that become the evidence of the nursing problems for the care plan. the nursing diagnoses...
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    IS BSN slower paced than ASN

    Daytonite replied to 2bnurseTV's topic in General Students

    Not necessarily. In a BSN program you are having to earn more unit credits in order to graduate to get the bachelor's degree. The university adds extra goodies to the nursing curriculum that they...
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    Difference between RN and LPN programs

    Daytonite replied to latebloomer74's topic in LPN to RN

    Stronger focus on pathophysiology and nursing process (problem solving). RNs ultimately are making decisions that LPNs are not able to make. That is what you will be learning. I used to tell the...
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    nursing admission essay help...edit??

    Daytonite replied to jreneex2's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am always upset when I read admission essays because they will contain a sentence like "I have the attributes to be a good RN" and then mention none of them that are relevant. RNs today are patient...
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    Best Medical Dictionary Recommended

    Daytonite replied to newbiepnp's topic in General Students

    In answering questions here on the forums I have both Taber's and Mosby's dictionaries. I've always had a copy of Taber's since I was a student back in 1973. I like Taber's because it has better...
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    I want to know the role of the nurse in bone marrow aspiration

    Daytonite replied to TriniStudentNurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You are very welcome. Best wishes to
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    case study advice

    Daytonite replied to mello1177's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a case study is pretty much constructed in an essay form. it is merely a discussion of the patient and their nursing problems--it's an expanded care plan. follow the steps of the nursing process to...
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    Question about nursing process

    Daytonite replied to CBsMommy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    is any subjective data from the patient considered assessment data? yup. planning is you determining goals and nursing interventions. so, if mr. jones was actively describing something to you about...
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    care plan help for right knee abscess

    Daytonite replied to Mom25Girls's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    you should have data for the abscess: length, width, depth, description of drainage, etc. those are your aeb items, or symptoms, of the nursing problem which is the impaired skin integrity (are we...
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    I want to know the role of the nurse in bone marrow aspiration

    Daytonite replied to TriniStudentNurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    a bone marrow aspiration is when the physician obtains soft tissue from the medullary canal of long bone (femur, tibia, and humerus) and interstices of cancellous bone (sternum, rib, pelvis) for...
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    QUICK HELP!!

    Daytonite replied to Nursing12345's topic in General Nursing

    depends on what the patient's response would be. a nursing diagnosis is merely a label, a name, placed on a nursing problem, so what you really need to do is determine what the symptoms of the...
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    Acute confusion care plan help?

    Daytonite replied to saffronclover's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    got it. first of all, don't be too concerned with what the other students are doing. they may not be doing the right thing. concentrate on what you were instructed to do which is work on the...
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    Acute confusion care plan help?

    Daytonite replied to saffronclover's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Just as a doctor treats symptoms, so do we. Taking the nursing diagnostic statement I used (Acute Confusion R/T delirium secondary to Dilaudid ingestion AEB disoriented to time and place, inability to...
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    Help with Care Plans

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

    What kind of help are you looking for? You know the nursing diagnosis. What you do next is determine the goals and nursing