Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    What is the chain of command?

    Daytonite replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    The information you are looking for is in everyone's job description. You can also go to your manager, the nursing office, the nursing education department or the person who conducts the hospital's...
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    Test question, just wanted your thoughts

    Daytonite replied to RNnTrainin''s topic in General Students

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    Would like to use nursing Dx imbalanced nutrition but not sure how!

    Daytonite replied to RN in 10!'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    deficient fluid volume r/t protein and albumin loss aeb bilateral pitting edema of both lower extremities and facial edema. yes, this is because of fluids moving from the blood vessels and into the...
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    Test question, just wanted your thoughts

    Daytonite replied to RNnTrainin''s topic in General Students

    actually, in many of the hospitals that i worked we had to start atbs within 2 hours of admission or the doctor writing the order or the sword of damocles came down on you. it has something to do with...
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    Test question, just wanted your thoughts

    Daytonite replied to RNnTrainin''s topic in General Students

    pt admitted to unit with t-101.8, cough, and pain rated 7/10. which med would the nurse anticipate giving first? a) antihistamine b) antibiotic c) tylenol d) codeine you always treat the worst...
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    math class

    Daytonite replied to carlarenee02's topic in General Students

    i do not understand why it is that some nursing programs do not get together with students and teach it more intensely unless they are deliberately using it as a weeding out factor. there are some...
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    Medication error

    Daytonite replied to funnibone13's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    you are not going to find specific incidents (names, dates, facilities). all kinds of medication errors listed on these websites: http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/ - morbidity and mortality rounds from the...
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    Capitalize nursing dx in scholarly paper?

    Daytonite replied to CaliLvr000's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i always capitalize all the words of nursing diagnostic labels because that is the way they are presented in the official nanda taxonomy. in the taxonomy, nanda lists this as chronic pain. i would not...
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    Would like to use nursing Dx imbalanced nutrition but not sure how!

    Daytonite replied to RN in 10!'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    it sounds to me like your diagnosis is wrong. you have to work within the parameters of what a diagnosis allows. there is actually 2 different problems here. the low protein and albumin are related...
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    Assessing Functional Health Patterns with SLE

    Daytonite replied to Trish520's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    look up as much information about sle as you can find. use the weblinks on https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/medical-disease-information-258109.html - medical disease...
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    Please help

    Daytonite replied to Whitb's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. i had to take every one of those classes (statistics, college algebra, anatomy & physiology,...
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    Assessing Functional Health Patterns with SLE

    Daytonite replied to Trish520's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You asked what specifically you could ask this client that would pertain to her diagnosis of SLE, so that is what I focused on. I have a slew of questions that go with these, but I narrowed them down...
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    med-surg questions...

    Daytonite replied to RFA158's topic in Medical-Surgical

    petgroomer. . .this is an old thread. this list was updated, expanded and has since been made into a sticky thread. you can see the much longer list on the nursing student assistance forum here:...
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    How do I break down all this info?

    Daytonite replied to RNFinally12's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    for diseases, their treatment and nursing care, use the critical thinking flow sheet for nursing
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    constipation diagnosis help

    Daytonite replied to intense0120's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    constipation r/t decreased peristalsis secondary to: stress aeb last bm 2 dys ago, bowel distended, and pt states, "probably not going, because i'm not at home" the "secondary to" for the r/t part of...
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    NANDA RT for Readiness for Enhanced Power

    Daytonite replied to shelbias's topic in General Students

    the "readiness for" diagnoses are the wellness diagnoses that are used when there are no other nursing problems. the related factors (etiologies) are always a desire to improve [the subject]. here...
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    NANDA Diag.

    Daytonite replied to Goldenatom's topic in General Students

    This is a goal, not an
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    CHF nursing diagnosis help please!

    Daytonite replied to brs72007's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    if all her admitting symptoms were gone the doctor would have discharged her. when you care plan (determine a patient's nursing problems) the starting point is to do an assessment. assessment is...
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    In desperate in of some pointers!

    Daytonite replied to mRpeNa's topic in General Students

    This is probably not what you want to hear, but studying for a final begins with the first day of
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    IV Practive "arms"

    Daytonite replied to kellyhutch's topic in General Students

    yes, you can buy them, but they are expensive. anyway, they are nothing like the real deal. it took me over 6 months of starting 2 ivs every day before i got good at it. and, this was on the job....
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    Help with Care Plans

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

    you can't say impaired gas exchange r/t pneumonia and decreased cardiac output. you cannot use a medical diagnoses (pneumonia) or another nursing diagnoses (decreased cardiac output) as the related...
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    Critical thinking

    Daytonite replied to stephynic21's topic in General Students

    Critical thinking always starts with assessing the situation with which you have been presented and then determining what problems you have. Next, you develop strategies to solve the problems. What...
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    pressure ulcers

    Daytonite replied to 2bnurse15's topic in General Students

    i'm not about the reasoning of your question. we assess to gather data, not to make medical decisions. i can give you some really good websites on how to assess pressure ulcers and how to assess the...
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    not healing

    Daytonite replied to 2bnurse15's topic in General Students

    Infection, edema, poor circulation, pressure applied to the healing area. High blood sugars could still be the problem. I had a stasis ulcer for a year on my mid-calf that wouldn't heal and my blood...
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    NANDA Diag.

    Daytonite replied to Goldenatom's topic in General Students

    impaired gas exchange is about gas exchange at the alveoli being impaired, not the larger airways. deep breathing and coughing is going to help, but you also want to maximize their breaths. this...