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  1. Care Plan help for "Impaired Urinary Elimination"

    mkcrturner posted a topic in General Students

    please help me with some wording.... our instructors will nto allow us to use medical dx for our r/t. my pt has a uti, was retaining 1000ml of urine so they put in a foley. i cannot use: "impaired...

  2. Expressive Apashia Pt, lots of blanks to fill in

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thanks Daytonite!! I just reread my post above your last reply- can you see how i am getting myself tied up? LOL as simple as it was you gave me some more ways to say the same thing- and each section...

  3. Expressive Apashia Pt, lots of blanks to fill in

    mkcrturner posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hi, I have one last care plan to do before graduation and have run into a NEW writers block. We did our rotation in LTC facility and I learned the term "poor historian" when filling in blanks for...

  4. Expressive Apashia Pt, lots of blanks to fill in

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thanks for the reply Daytonite. I got all the info from the chart (scant as it was)that I could and we are not allowed to make calls to family members. This pt has been in LTC for about 2 years so...

  5. Desperately Need Help With Care Plans

    mkcrturner replied to LVN2006's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    That is exactly what i meant. I am used to having some actual 'abnormals' to evaluate to lead me to the nursing diagnosis. Thanks to this board i never made the common beginning error of thinking-...

  6. Desperately Need Help With Care Plans

    mkcrturner replied to LVN2006's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yup, I got the careplan concept mastered.... Piece of cake....review patients problems- check, Work backwards- check. I was quite proud of myself.. Now comes the wrench. I need to do nursing diagnosis...

  7. Help with Care Plans

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

    Thanks Daytonite. Your fresh eyes helped alot. This Care Plan is hard to explain. But the middle pages have the areas broken up. And if there is one thing wrong/different/unusual/abnormal we...

  8. Help with Care Plans

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

    OK, I am truly stuck. I am doing a huge care plan. pt is 38 y.o. f with aids, hep c, mrsa in a wound from an ind to a cyst that has gone from anterior hip to the iliac crest with...

  9. Wound Care Homework help please

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    THANKS VERY much!! The websites/links were helpful as was your time to help

  10. Wound Care Homework help please

    mkcrturner posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I have a question I need some help with please. Our books are sorely lacking in pressure ulcer info. scenario= A pt with a stage 3 pressure ulcer....sacral coccyx area...7.5 cm x 5 cm and 5/8" deep...

  11. Wound Care Homework help please

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    oh and... after the undermining clears up- the perfect dressing that is permeable and promotes healing by sealing in fibrin, plasma etc is called? and two examples. I am looking all over the place....

  12. How will our new grad Male RN work in L &D?

    mkcrturner replied to ragingmomster's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am F and prefer my M ob-gyn. As a matter of fact, I moved to FL and still schedule my annual exam during a trip back home to MI to see him. I had a F once and was uncomfortable with HER doing my...

  13. Care Plan help for "Impaired Urinary Elimination"

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in General Students

    Thanks to all who replied. This board is (and has been) a gift to me. From trying to get into school, and now to survive school. I am off to work on my care plan and study for test on 2 systems...

  14. Care Plan help for "Impaired Urinary Elimination"

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in General Students

  15. Care Plan help for "Impaired Urinary Elimination"

    mkcrturner replied to mkcrturner's topic in General Students

    sorry I left that out- she had another problem and was in an infusion center for 54 days receiving antibiotics to treat a leg infection. While there she didn't get up much, became weak...... and so...

  16. Starting out

    mkcrturner replied to byrdnest's topic in Florida Nursing

    I live in Bradenton and I enrolled in Manatee Technical Institute LPN program. I lived in MI and was taking pre-req's to become an RN, and the move here was a mess. Cost per credit hour at MCC was...

  17. Nursing class notes or sample exams?

    mkcrturner replied to RNStudentJJC's topic in General Students

    tests NCLEX Practice Questions - Pass your NCLEX Test with free NCLEX Test Preparation Materials these are a couple of 'test' sites i have saved. your textbooks might have a website and you can do...

  18. Best way to mark your stethoscope?

    mkcrturner replied to spoiled_lil_sister's topic in General Students

    I have an I.D. Tag, but more importantly I developed the habit of keeping it with/on me. I feel soooo stingy and greedy which is not at all how I want to be, but ya know........ it costs a lot of...

  19. Christmast wish list for pre-nursing students

    mkcrturner replied to TemperStripe's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I just got my acceptance letter and they included a Holiday Gift Suggestion Letter. Here are things I didn't notice already mentioned.. but then again I am tired.. sorry if I am repeating.... for non...

  20. Nursing school changing husband's behavior?

    mkcrturner replied to buddiage's topic in General Students

    My hubby is planning a cruise with my first earned money- LOLOLOL I have been a SAHM (stay at home mom) for 6 years- so money has been really tight for

  21. LPN to RN through testing?

    mkcrturner replied to mc3's topic in General Nursing

    Oops, couldnt edit. to clarify- The reason i was upset with this is that I felt it was a waste of $1400 to take BIO, I felt ready to take the A&P without their pre-reg of BIO. If I had failed...

  22. LPN to RN through testing?

    mkcrturner replied to mc3's topic in General Nursing

    Believe you me.. I TRIED and it was a no-go. It was a huge mess, they wouldn't even allow me to transfer high school Biology since it had been over ten years ago. They said "we like to see the classes...

  23. LPN to RN through testing?

    mkcrturner replied to mc3's topic in General Nursing

    What ever happened to good old apprenticeship?? You work side by side with a master of the occupation in order to learn, they you begin doing the work. Points from both sides are well noted. I agree...

  24. Nursing student freaking about BPs

    mkcrturner replied to midcom's topic in General Nursing

    ok, i'll 'fess up to this....... but my mistake may help you. Are you properly placing the earpieces in??? When they are backwards you CAN still hear, but flip them around to the correct listening...

  25. Help...husband discouraging me :(

    mkcrturner replied to Faye1's topic in General Nursing

    LOLOLOL, I found this funny. Reading those words took me back in time. It is how I was treated when I worked in various fast food places in my younger years. I was earning $12 hourly plus commission...