Daytonite BSN, RN

med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt

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    Help with Care Plans

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

    this is how i would sequence them and why: impaired gas exchange r/t ventilation perfusion imbalance (pneumonia and sputum production) [physiological need for oxygen - lungs] decreased cardiac output...
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    NANDA Diag.

    Daytonite replied to Goldenatom's topic in General Students

    impaired gas exchange, related to alveolar-capillary membrane changes secondary to copd, as evidenced by arterial oxygen saturation of 88%. is that more appropriate? yes. i have to come up with...
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    Help with PKU Diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to cnbowling's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Delayed Growth and Development R/T cognitive impairment secondary to
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    Help with PKU Diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to cnbowling's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    delayed growth and development r/t inability to break down excess amino acids aeb child's weight is in 5th percentile. inability to break down excess amino acids doesn't clearly explain the cause of...
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    How to give adequate care?

    Daytonite replied to DroogieRN's topic in General Nursing

    You give them your full attention. Your coworkers help out. That's why we have
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    How to give adequate care?

    Daytonite replied to DroogieRN's topic in General Nursing

    The time goes by so fast you don't even notice it. It was my daily exercise! Ha! Ha! You find the time to pee. We all laughed about how things would be so much easier if we could just have foleys with...
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    Help with PKU Diagnosis

    Daytonite replied to cnbowling's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    start by looking up and making a list of the signs and symptoms of pku. nursing diagnoses are labels for nursing problems. nursing diagnoses are based upon the responses (signs and symptoms) that...
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    How to give adequate care?

    Daytonite replied to DroogieRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's why I never sat down. It's all included in the multi-tasking and making every step
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    How to give adequate care?

    Daytonite replied to DroogieRN's topic in General Nursing

    You manage your time, never sit down, multi-task and make every step you take up and down the hall count. I had large pockets in all my uniforms to hold all the junk in them so I didn't have to keep...
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    help with resume after career change to nurse

    Daytonite replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    good luck with your job search and in nursing school. employers know that new grads have no nursing experience and do not expect to see any on a resume. you will need a recommendation from one of...
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    Having second thoughts about NS - Please talk to off the ledge!

    Daytonite replied to midnight*sky's topic in General Students

    i went through a basic adn program where the instructors were a dream and then went back for my bsn years later when i was a very seasoned rn where the professors were a nightmare and we students...
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    Nursing School Interview

    Daytonite replied to Blessed2009's topic in General Students

    you can take a copy of your resume, but do not offer it to them unless they ask for it. i cannot think of any reason why they would want to see it. i am hearing more and more that at these nursing...
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    Help with Care Plans

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

    When I was first taught this I didn't understand it either. It is why I work so hard to answer nursing diagnosis questions from students. It is, by far, the most commonly asked type of question with...
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    Please help

    Daytonite replied to POMD01's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    the side effects of a blood transfusion are listed at the very top of this document which you can open and print out. it also includes information about the different blood products that can be...
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    Priority diagnosis diabetes, fluid & electrolytes

    Daytonite replied to intense0120's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You are welcome. It takes time and experience to nail the critical thinking behind these things down. Just keep hanging in there. It is important that you keep making the effort. Believe it or...
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    IV access ports

    Daytonite replied to courtenia's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    when you are using them to either connect tubing or even just to flush the hep-lock line with ns, aren't you supposed to clean the port with alcohol first? most professional nurses i observe do not do...
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    help, my math is less than perfect!

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

    your textbook is showing an incorrect solution to this problem. the 47.619 drops/minute would have been the infusion rate for the 1 liter bag if it had been infusing on time at 142 cc/hour like it...
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    help with my assignment

    Daytonite replied to phil_heff's topic in General Students

    potential problems are never a priority. actual problems are always attended to first. list the signs and symptoms of a patient having an acute exacerbation of asthma. translate those into your 3...
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    What would you have answered?

    Daytonite replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    All you Level of Consciousness supporters. . .I was a Med/Surg nurse for M-A-N-Y years. Patients coming out of PACU after general anesthesia are stoned! About the best some of them can do is open...
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    Priority diagnosis diabetes, fluid & electrolytes

    Daytonite replied to intense0120's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    to diagnose, apply the nursing process. step 1 assessment - the assessment data has been supplied for you. the only thing it hasn't done is told you that this patient has undiagnosed ketoacidosis....
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    What would you have answered?

    Daytonite replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    you are the receiving nurse accepting a patient to a med-surg floor from the pacu. what is the first thing you do? a. check patient's level of consciousness b. see if patient's family is present...
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    care plan

    Daytonite replied to monish_0210's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    this is complicated grieving. i would word the nursing diagnosis as complicated grieving r/t the death of his wife. an alternative diagnosis to consider might be chronic sorrow because it allows for...
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    NANDA nursing diagnosis for pressure ulcers

    Daytonite replied to POMD01's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i understand very well what you are asking because i wrote care plans for nursing homes and pressure ulcers are something that we care planned a lot for there. the information you need to diagnose...
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    17th NANDA Nursing Diagnoses Help!!!

    Daytonite replied to MsRN247's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    NANDA does not give these lists away for free. They sell the rights for them to other publishers who must pay a royalty to print them. The best you can do is find out what publisher has the rights...
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    Dear Instructor...

    Daytonite replied to LifelongDream's topic in General Students

    knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. martin h. fischer wisdom begins at the end. daniel