NewNurse91D

NewNurse91D

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  1. Care plan help!

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Thank you very much for your helpful advice!

  2. Care plan help!

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Okay thank you

  3. Care plan help!

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Your right :) hahaha thank you! I feel better now, I'm once again making it so much more complicated

  4. Care plan help!

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Thank you :) that's a huge compliment! and she is A&O x4, very easy to talk to. She acknowledges what's going on with her health but it seems like she doesn't acknowledge what's causing it. She is...

  5. Care plan help!

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    I am a little confused on the urinalysis results though. I mean her urinalysis was HORRIBLE. and this may be a dumb question-but why was it SO bad? Can septic & poorly managed DM cause that? I...

  6. Care plan help!

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Thank you =] good to see you on my post! & I feel like I'm missing something because I don't really know what to DO about it. I think I see the some of the big picture- poor DM control (A1C lab),...

  7. Care plan help!

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Her BUN was 11, creatinine 0.9 & gfr >60. She didn't have any ABG's done =/ I feel like the big things to focus on for my pt. are infection management, nutrition (albumin), DM education,...

  8. Care plan help!

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Thank you =] Im trying to connect the dots btwn the assessment & labs. And what do you mean by my "care plan would address other non-medical

  9. Care plan help please!

    NewNurse91D posted a topic in General Students

    Hello All! =] I'm doing my 2nd Med Surg care plan. & as always, I'm having some trouble connecting the dots & seeing all the pieces. By no means, do I just want "answers". I would really...

  10. Care plan help please!

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    I feel like I don't see my pt's 'bigger picture'. I also want to be able to do a good care plan focused on the big picture of my pt. I don't know where to

  11. Care plan assistance requested

    NewNurse91D posted a topic in General Students

    Hello all! I am doing my care plan for my Med-Surg clinical rotation and I've picked a pt. It's kind of a unique pt. and I guess I'm just looking for a little bit of guidance or reassurance that I'm...

  12. need some advice..

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    I did talk to my nurses and cnas. I am a cna so I was right at home with them. I have noooo confidence so I found it hard to follow them around because I felt like I was bothering them. So they didn't...

  13. need some advice..

    NewNurse91D posted a topic in General Students

    Hey guys, SOOOO I just failed out of my second semester of my nursing program. I guess I really didn't "fail out". I was told by my professors that I wasn't going to pass my clinical evals. This whole...

  14. need some advice..

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    And your right, I don't think its requires a higher level of thinking. It requires common sense :/ and I don't think common sense is something that someone can grow. I'm starting to think that you...

  15. need some advice..

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Exactly!!!! That is exactly my problem. I don't connect the information/facts from lecture to the clinical world. I don't see those connections. And that is SO dangerous!!! That is a serious safety...

  16. need some advice..

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    From what they are telling me, I can't connect the dots. I don't see that big picture when it comes to my pt's. And with med passing-it's not that I can't do it, I just don't thinkkkkk while doing it....

  17. Care Plan help needed!

    NewNurse91D posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hey guys! I am doing my second care plan; and my pt. was a bit more complicated than I originally thought. SO now I am sitting here with a million and one conditions and complications and s/s and have...

  18. Care plan helpppp

    NewNurse91D posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hey guys! I need major help with my care plan! This is my second care plan; and I'm having trouble figuring out which d/x I should use and im concerned that im not making the right choice or that I'm...

  19. Care plan helpppp

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    How can I incorporate his resp findings in with the activity intolerance d/x

  20. Care plan helpppp

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am working on the ineffective breathing pattern. I have it as: [TABLE=width: 936] [TR] [TD]Ineffective Breathing Pattern [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Related to: severe pain (secondary to d/x of GOUT) and...

  21. Care plan helpppp

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Would diuretics be a good thing for this pt? I'm thinking-duiretics to promote the excertion of the Uric acid which would help the gout and help the AKI. I was thinking of including that with some of...

  22. Care plan helpppp

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    as far as his DM magaenment-I didn't see his ALC in the labs but I did see that his glucose levels were stable\, a tiny pbit on the high side but that's to be expected because he is under stress, he...

  23. Care plan helpppp

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    also, I did look for a urine alaysis in his chart and there wasn't one done. could his high wbc count be r/t the gout? and about his meds-he said that he stopped taking them because he thought he...

  24. Care plan helpppp

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The pt. does not have any edema. he has a urine output of 500cc. I know for a fact that he did take in 960cc during my 6-noon shift ALONG with getting a copntinous infusion of NS at 100 and hr. BUT...

  25. Care plan helpppp

    NewNurse91D replied to NewNurse91D's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    thank you very much! thtats very