AliNajaCat

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  1. Lab values

    AliNajaCat replied to gil.jen19's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    NCLEX questions will mostly either give you normal labs or wildly abnormal ones, to make up for the fact that there is some flexibility in norms in different parts of the country or institutions. So...

  2. I need help with SOAP Please

    AliNajaCat replied to kwlkitty522's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-with-a-980953.h Hi! Here's the summary answer about nursing diagnosis in general, which should get you going on the right path. Once you've read it...

  3. Help me pass!

    AliNajaCat replied to Tobenursemj's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Don't argue. you're wrong. This old post explains why. https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/why-you-dont-902671.html Step away from the piles of review questions, stickie notes, and scribbled...

  4. Make yourself THINK like a nurse

    AliNajaCat replied to mississippikid's topic in Study Tips for Students's Share Tips

    From an older thread. This will help. https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/who-knew-my-754941.html Who forgets the first day of clinical? Even if you've been a CNA or a candy-striper,...

  5. Teaching or educating?

    AliNajaCat replied to verdeacres's topic in General Nursing

    Or "ambulate" for "walk," and "verbalize" for "say" or "talk." Plain English is always best; fancier words don't make you look smarter. Try to remember that when you write your care

  6. Give the ANA a piece of your mind

    AliNajaCat posted a topic in General Nursing

    The ANA has a survey out asking for opinions from working nurses about their scope and standards of practice. You don't have to have read it to give an opinion, there's a lot of free text space. Vote...

  7. 75 yr old African American with skin ulcer

    AliNajaCat replied to ksurette's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Her feelings about its not healing are not a clinical problem. What do you think about the fact that she has had a pressure ulcer before, and why do you think she got this one, and why this one isnt...

  8. Case study help

    AliNajaCat replied to newrnnurse2b's topic in General Students

    You can't decide to give more oxygen without an order, but you should get one Your set up needs suction for the NG tube, and NS and a toomey syringe for irrigation to keep it open. NO CRACKERS. He's...

  9. Breastfeeding vs Formula Fed babies and Childhood Obesity

    AliNajaCat replied to nursedeena's topic in General Students

    Ask for sex, ht, wt and then calculate BMI Read the studies already done and see what data they collected, no need to reinvent the wheel, you need to demosntrate that you looked at the literature...

  10. Struggling with tough decisions after school

    AliNajaCat replied to FatsWaller's topic in General Students

    Everybody wants to go to CRNA or NP school. Theres no shortage of applicants, even with an EMS background with only 1-2 years of new grad work experience youll be way down the list behind people with...

  11. Professor Grades My Exams Slow

    AliNajaCat replied to tbird88's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Don't distract any nurse who's giving care. When you asked her about your paper work you were telling her that your grade was mire important than your patients at that moment. not a good

  12. Getting annoyed with Excelsior

    AliNajaCat replied to szccdw's topic in Excelsior College

    Theyre still ripping people off I

  13. How to get into nurse school with several "w" and 2 "F"

    AliNajaCat replied to Dagmawi's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The for-profit schools like the ITT Techs of this world love people who have demonstrated they can't succeed in run of the mill academics. They can get you to sign up for your programs, pay their...

  14. No One Talks About… An Easier Way to Catheterize Women (and Prevent Complications)

    AliNajaCat replied to melissamabd's topic in General Nursing

    Hard to read. Paragraphs to break it up would be good. School

  15. No One Talks About… An Easier Way to Catheterize Women (and Prevent Complications)

    AliNajaCat replied to melissamabd's topic in General Nursing

    Found this helpful hint doing search here. https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/female-cathing-890772-page2.html Quote from klone The clitoral hood often has so many folds that look like...

  16. Graduating Nursing Student

    AliNajaCat replied to mevaldez's topic in General Nursing

    If she's in a ASN program that integrates with a BSN one she may be able to start her coursework before she takes

  17. Acid-Base Balance question

    AliNajaCat replied to Samm06's topic in General Students

    I found this searching in all nurses. https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/abg-interpretation-850246.html This is a tutorial I wrote to teach ABGs. It's been out on the net for years now...

  18. Graduating Nursing Student

    AliNajaCat replied to mevaldez's topic in General Nursing

    Instantly. Good luck in finding a job without it. Enroll now so you can tell hospitals you apply to that you're doing it, that may

  19. What is the best job that has to do with mother and baby

    AliNajaCat replied to Wannabern24's topic in General Nursing

    Many wannabe RNs thing these are nice easy happy places that are familiar because of perhaps past babysitting experience. Most do not know that their mother/baby education in nursing school is a small...