xmilkncookiesx RN

xmilkncookiesx has <1 years experience as a RN.

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1. Please help with my hw assignment!

   xmilkncookiesx posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

   Hi all, wow it’s been SO long since I’ve posted her. Brings me so much memories from nursing school days :) I am in a RN-BSN program and it has been tough. I have a project that is a...

2. what is the hospital nurses role in organ donation?

   xmilkncookiesx replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

   thank you!!! I have a question. I was told to NEVER ask families about organ donation, that you only talk to the OPO about it. I am assuming the families will get offended if asked or offered? Is it...

3. what is the hospital nurses role in organ donation?

   xmilkncookiesx posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am having a hard time looking for resources that gives a description of what a hospital nurse does in the organ donation process from A to Z. For example, the patient is admitted to the ER or...

4. What do you do when a patient refuses treatment and wants to go home?

   xmilkncookiesx replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

   I am already aware of that. thank

5. What do you do when a patient refuses treatment and wants to go home?

   xmilkncookiesx posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi all. I've only come across this incident once, last week as a nursing student. I had a patient who had a wound that was stitched. 2 different doctors worked with the patient. one said told the...

6. What to do when pt comes into ER with closed head injury?

   xmilkncookiesx replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Students

   thank you so much!!! this was a great help. I was freaking out on if we need to assess ALL cranial nerves or just specifics like 2,3,4,6,10, you know, PERRLA, can they move them around, and also...

7. What to do when pt comes into ER with closed head injury?

   xmilkncookiesx replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Students

   lol I've always hated SIM, I feel like it is no help. Can you tell me this .. when performing neuro assessment on patients with head injury, would you assess ALL cranial nerves? or will that take too...

8. What to do when pt comes into ER with closed head injury?

   xmilkncookiesx posted a topic in General Students

   Hello, I have sim lab in a few days. I reviewed and studied material for ICP. I gathered information on what I learned and put them in the order on how to assess and treat the injury in an emergency....

9. What to do when pt comes into ER with stroke?

   xmilkncookiesx posted a topic in General Students

   I have sim lab in a few days and I'd like to prepare for it (well I already am, but want to make sure if theres anything I am missing to anything to add onto my assessment). the paper says that the pt...

10. How to prioritize 4+ patients?

    xmilkncookiesx replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

    First semester we were able to have the whole pt info the night before. But we haven't in the last few semesters. But this semester is really complicated for me since its a big load for me and some of...

11. How to prioritize 4+ patients?

    xmilkncookiesx replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, this has given me some

12. How to prioritize 4+ patients?

    xmilkncookiesx replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

    Ours was self taught. she taught us based off her experience as a nurse, not the books we bought. so it was definitely hard and especially because no anatomy and physiology review was provided before...

13. How to prioritize 4+ patients?

    xmilkncookiesx replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. And no we can't look at the meds the night before. We aren't given pt info until morning of. But I go home and review the meds I've written

14. How to prioritize 4+ patients?

    xmilkncookiesx replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks! She said these past few weeks, the N's didn't matter but these next upcoming weeks (3 weeks because we have 8 week courses) the N's WILL matter. But how do you manage this patient load? What...

15. How to prioritize 4+ patients?

    xmilkncookiesx posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi. I am in nursing school, my last semester (4th). Right now in clinicals, we are assigned to 3 patients but help the nurse manage 4 patients. All we have been doing is med pass and assessments, and...