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I found that pharm has an overwhelming amount of new information to learn. Don't try to read/memorize every little thing. Study the prototype drugs, suffixes, and main concepts and if you're going to make flashcards for anything focus on those things. Download Micromedex or another similar drug app, or get a drug handbook (like Mosby's) for quick referencing. If you have questions and rationales that is also an effective way to learn this information.

My NANDA nursing diagnosis handbook only lists risk for infection as a nursing diagnosis. While writing my care plan I feel that the main concern with most of my patients is infection, but not risk for. They are exhibiting signs of infection (high WBC, fever, cloudy urine, purulent drainage, etc.), so I can not list that as risk for infection because it is apparent that the infection already exists. I don't understand why plain old infection is not a nursing diagnosis when I have so much assessment data that I could put toward that diagnosis. Does anyone have an explanation for this, or know a way to still include certain information/data under a different diagnosis?