AlmostNurseJ

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1. head to toe assessment?

   AlmostNurseJ replied to soranaruto's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Well you're assessing their skin. Is it dry or moist? Are there any incisions, wounds, pressure areas, bruises, skin tears, fragile turgor, rashes, excoriation? What's the color? Is it pink and well...

2. At the top of my class...but awful in clinical!

   AlmostNurseJ replied to enfermera17's topic in General Students

   I agree with the above. I am a nursing student as well coming up on my last 3 months of the program. We all understand what it's like to make a mistake like that in clinical and let it upset us, and I...

3. Bombed first Fundementals Exam

   AlmostNurseJ replied to mnw9412's topic in General Students

   I know the feeling. My first quarter in nursing (I go to a quarterly program rather than semesters) I was barely passing the class all the way up until I took the final, which was when I finally...

4. Teaching Aid Ideas

   AlmostNurseJ posted a topic in General Students

   I have a teaching project for clinical and I need to have a teaching aid. Everyone does a pamphlet type thing as their teaching aid, but I want to do something different so that the information stands...

5. Nursing diagnosis question

   AlmostNurseJ replied to EMTPRNDR's topic in General Students

   I would need more information on what the question was asking. Maybe the reason it said activity intolerance has a higher priority because that one nursing diagnosis usually relates to the other two....

6. What was your hardest class and how did you study for it?

   AlmostNurseJ replied to VAgirl247's topic in General Students

   I think it varies depending on people and also the class. Like yaneau said, the professor's teaching style and your learning style also make a difference. My hardest class so far has been the first...

7. Why low Hg, Hct, and RBC postop?

   AlmostNurseJ posted a topic in General Students

   I have had multiple patients that have low Hg, Hct, and RBC counts after surgery, but when putting my reason for the patient's abnormal finding, I can't seem to think of anything except for the fact...