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nurse-alexamaya · 8 months

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ESQUEMA DE VACUNACIÓN DEL PERSONAL DE SALUD

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dolivia · 1 year

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The allowable deviations from a norm or criterion are expressed in the standards for LPN nursing programs, which were developed by professionals.

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tareqbnyan · 1 year

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Nclex Question of the Day - Question Number (45) The nurse is assisting the physician with the insertion of an esophageal tamponade. Before insertion, the nurse should: a) Inflate and deflate the gastric and esophageal balloons . b) Measure tip of of the client's nose to the xiphoid process . c) Explain that tube will remain in place for 5-7 days . d) Insert a nasogastric tube for gastric suction correct amswer a) Inflate and deflate the gastric and esophageal balloons . RATIONALE : Unless the manufacturer recommends otherwise, the nurse should inflate and deflate the gastric and esophageal balloons to make sure they are not defective. Answer B refers to the insertion of a standard nasogastric tube; therefore, it is incorrect. Answer C is incorrect because the esophageal tamponade is usually removed after 48 hours. Answer D is incorrect because theesophageal tamponade has a port for gastric suction. correct amswer B) Diarrhea . rationale : Lactulose is given to produce diarrhea, which lowers the client's serum ammonia levels. Answers A, C, and D are not associated with the use of lactulose; there, they are incorrect. #nursingstudenttips #nursing #nursingstudent #nursingschool #studentlife #student #medicalstudent #nurseintraining #nurselife #clinical #scrubslife #studygram #medical #nursingproblems #school #studentnurse #nurse #scrubs #nurseinprogress #nursingtips #nursingschoolproblems #nurseblog #secondyear #university #nurseinsta #nursingnotes #nursingblog #instablogger #insta #giveaway

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boca-hnu · 4 years

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#nurses #student #nursingstudent #nursingblog #blog #health #heroes #nursing #goodhealth

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erica-the-rn · 4 years

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My New Job

In August, I started a new job at a nursing home. Guys, I can NOT explain how fulfilling this job is!!!! I work as a med-cart nurse, traditionally held by LPNs at this facility. However, after my last job, I experienced burn out pretty hard. So I’ve been taking it easy.

As for my job, my cart has 20+ residents that I am in charge of their medications and treatments. I can’t believe how amazing this job has been.

The difference between acute care and long-term care is uncanny. For the records, both jobs stay busy. In fact, this job is slightly busier, in my opinion. However, the type of care is very different. Now, what do I mean? Obviously the residents at a nursing home are less “acute”. Their health diagnoses are merely being maintained at a nursing home. There are no existential crisis. There is rarely a life or death decision to be made. Usually, if it becomes close to a life or death decision, you’ll send your resident to the hospital before it comes to that. Codes rarely come to fullness at a nursing home, as well. Most residents are DNRs at a nursing home. This is, of course, my generalization. Check your charts, don’t assume.

The biggest difference, however, is that at a long term care facility you can actually spend time with your residents. It sounds crazy; that having more residents, you actually have more time to speak to them. Things are less “here and now” and more at the pace of the resident. Your job switches from medical emergency, in the acute care setting, to making life happy and comfortable, in the long term care setting.

Its amazing. It really is.

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nursing-blog-universe211 · 5 years

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Are you getting adequate sleep?

Sleep is an important part of your daily routine—you spend about one-third of your time doing it. Quality sleep, and getting enough of it at the right times is as essential to survival as food and water. Without sleep you can’t form or maintain the pathways in your brain that let you learn and create new memories, and it’s harder to concentrate and respond quickly. Nothing is more unpleasant than starting your day with being tired. You know that you do not get enough sleep when your alarm rings and you do not feel rested; when you cannot stop yawning and you have difficulty focusing during the day. You are irritable. You are sleeping in the middle of the class. You are snacking more and gaining weight. Lack of sleep affects everything in your life. According to google, Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of America, once said, “early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”. Not only should you sleep more, but also sleeping early is as important and it makes a huge difference. When you go to bed early, you are able to wake up early and be more productive during the day. You have more energy to accomplish task, you tend to think and act faster. You can concentrate on your task, or on the professor. You are more alert and oriented.

Nursing school can be stressful and very demanding, it is vital for nursing students to get adequate amounts of sleep in order to learn and retain information from classes and clinicals. An interesting cross-sectional study conducted in two nursing schools revealed that students with better sleep quality had less insomnia and depression and able to study for more hours. Students with excessive daytime sleepiness were older, had more insomnia, depression, acid peptic disease, and were doing more night duties and less ward duties. The study also found that students with poor sleep quality were able to dedicate fewer hours to study and eventually had poor marks and were more depressed than their peers (Menon, et al, 2015).

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Article: “Sleep quality and health complaints among nursing students” by Menon, B., Karishma, H. P., & Mamatha, I. V. (2015). https://www.ninds.nih.gov/

#nursing school #cant sleep #nursingblog

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glaurenzana0428 · 6 years

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All things nursing

Welcome to my nursing blog. Here you will find educational materials as well as some funny and fun nursing memes and facts

I just finished my program and graduated the beginning of may. I look my NCLEX yesterday so I'm just waiting to see it I passed! I have heard the Pearson vue trick really does work, so I tried it. I got the popup that read "our records indicate that you have already registered for this exam" that is supposed to be the "good" popup. So fingers crossed 🤞

#classof2018 #grad #BSN #NCLEX #nursingblog

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thefreecloset · 3 years

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Many nurses may feel limited in their roles since they have so little say in how a patient will be treated. If you’d like to have a more direct influence on your patients’ everyday choices, you should consider starting a business as a nurse health coach.

#nurseentrepreneur #nursingcourse #nursingtrainingcenter #nursingblog #guestpost #guestposting #digitalmarketing #seo #contentmarketing #writeforus

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thatnursingstudentsblog-blog · 7 years

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Starting a guide for myself so I remember to always keep my head in any situation. Message me with more ideas!

#nursingblog #nurse #nurseideas #selfhelp #calm #cool #collected #futurenurse #nursing #care #patient

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richardskipper · 4 years

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nurse-alexamaya · 9 months

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ESQUEMA DE VACUNACIÓN CONTRA LA COVID-19 SEGUN GRUPO ETARIO

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dolivia · 1 year

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#nurse practitioner #nclexon #education #nursingschools #nursingblogs #lpnprograms #lpnclasses #lpnweekendclasses #verve college #practical nursing schools

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tareqbnyan · 1 year

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Nclex Question of the Day - Question Number (43)

An adolescent primigravida who is 10 weeks pregnant attends the antepartal clinic for her first check- up. To develop a teaching plan, the nurse should initially assess:

a) The client's knowledge of the signs of preterm labor . b)The client's feelings about the pregnancy . c) Whether the client was using a method of birth control . d) The client's though about future children .

correct answer b)The client's feelings about the pregnancy .

rationale : The client who is 10 weeks pregnant should be assessed to determine how she feels about the pregnancy. Answer A is incorrect because it is too early to discuss preterm labor. Answer C is incorrect because it is too late to discuss whether she was using a method of birth control. Answer D is incorrect because now is not the time to future children; this can be done after client delivers.

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boca-hnu · 4 years

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My Personal Nursing Philosophy

Nursing is an art and a science. I believe we should do what we can, by providing the highest quality nursing care, to see to that our patients receive the best outcome in their health. My nursing philosophy incorporates the 4 nursing metaparadigm concepts as a foundation for the discipline in nursing. These are:

person

environment

health

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I believe that we, as nurses, should not only focus at the illness or disease, but rather at the person as a whole as well as extending our care to the patient’s families. Next, it is best to look at the environment in which the patient lives in as it influences them to a high degree. More, health is the state from wellness to illness, as well as the quality of our lives. It is my belief that nurses be equipped with good scientific knowledge in order to gain a better understanding of how to assist a patient’s physical, mental, and/or physiological needs while providing safe, proper, quality, and most importantly, holistic nursing care.

Also, as we aid in healing and the recovery of others, it is my belief that nurses should be compassionate and caring to the patient and their families. The times that we are not providing ways of how to prevent or alleviate their afflictions, we will be talking to them, building their trust and forming a relationship; we will be tending to their emotional needs. Furthermore, a patient’s condition has not only caused them pain, but as well as depression, family conflict, poor nutrition, and/or the possibility for the pain to leave the patient in a worse state. These are things, as nurses, that we should think about.

Lastly, one of my nursing philosophy is to collaborate with our fellow nurses. We have to help each other out and be willing to learn from those that are more experienced than ourselves. There are many experiences from other nurses and people outside of the field that we can bring into caring for others. It is for these reasons we have to apply the things we will or had learn to our job as a nurse. It is my belief that working together only benefits yourself and fellow nurses, but also all patients that are in our care.

#nursing #nurse #nursingstudent #nursingphilosophy #blog #nursingblog #HNU #school #student

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erica-the-rn · 6 years

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Glomerulonephritis

What is it? (patho)

First things first, let me explain that while there is an arraaay of different GN-type disorders, this review is focusing on acute glomerulonephritis and chronic glomerulonephritis.

So now we break it down. For this we are going to break down this biiiiiiiig word.

Firstly, glomerulo: The origin word being “glomerus”. The glomerus is the conglomerate of specialized capillaries that filter blood to make urine. Second, nephr: The origin word being “nephron”. The nephron is the functioning unit in the kidney. It encapsulates the glomerus, in fact. Lastly, -itis: The meaning of -itis is literally inflammation or inflammatory process.

Lets put it all together!! :) Glomerulonephritis is the inflammatory process affecting the nephron and glomerus.

What causes it?

The difference between acute and chronic glomerulonephritis is that acute is an active infection in the body. Most commonly this is going to be two of our favorites(yeah, right), Group A Beta Streptococcus and Staphyloccocal. There IS an array of many other infections that can cause an acute flare, however these are your two most common infections. Another common cause can be systemic lupus erythematous.

** Just a note, the causes of chronic GN are not known however a correlation between kidney damage and hypertension is commonly connected to patients with GN.

What does it look like? (s/s)

So most any time that your kidneys are damaged or inflamed, they are obviously not going to do their job as well as they normally would. In that way, we are going to see a change in blood filtration and fluid balance. Now think to yourself, what are signs of those two things going wrong?

Starting with blood filtration, the kidneys aren’t filtering blood quite as they should. Here you are going to see the hallmark sign of GN, coca-cola colored urine. Some patients like to describe it as reddish-brown. The reason why it takes on this rusty color is because your kidneys are spilling microscopic traces of blood into the urine, turning it a darkened color. Another few things you might see are uremic manifestations. Uremia is an excess of the wastes normally excreted by the kidneys. So what are these uremic symptoms? Asterixis, tremors, and slurred speech are just a few. Asterixis is the flapping tremor of the hand. To test this, you ask the patient to maintain a fixed posture with the wrist hyperextended. They will not be able to.

Next, looking at fluid and electrolyte imbalances, we’re going to see signs and symptoms of fluid overload. I’ve already spoke a little about those signs with my heart failure review, but as a reminder, this is the bounding pulses, hypertension, crackles in the lungs, EDEMAA(big one for this patient), and changes in voiding patterns (most commonly decreases).

How can I help this patient? (treatment)

With your patients who are experiencing AGN (acute), remember that this is an ACTIVE infection. My teachers have always stressed to us to treat the cause first. So, most of these patients are going to be put on an antibiotic prescription. Why, again? Because they have a bacterial infection!!!! Usually, we see these patients are prescribed penicillin, erythromycin, or azithromycin. Caregivers and close contact family members may also be prescribed antibiotics, prophylactically. What do we want to teach them about these drugs? Use the whole prescription!

They also need to have stressed to them the importance of preventing infection spread. This includes hand-washing and hygiene.

These patients are showing signs and symptoms of fluid overload. It needs to be regulated quickly to prevent further problems, such as hypertension and heart failure. Diuretics and a fluid restriction may be prescribed for these patients to get the edema and fluids down. We also need to teach that they should monitor their daily weights, if they’re treated at home.

We also need to treat uremic symptoms and we treat it by treating fluid overload. However, if our standard drug therapy doesn’t treat it we can try dialysis, as it helps alleviate fluid overload as well.

What should I monitor? (Okay, I’m only going to make a list, follow YOUR teachers lab values)

BUN

Cr

Electrolytes (especially potassium)

H&H

24 hour urine specimen possibly

Culture and Sensitivity

Okay guys so there it is! If you have any questions, give me an IM!

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nursing-blog-universe211 · 5 years

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Hello!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Nursing Universe.

We are a group of nursing students from The Harriet Rofthkopf Heilbrunn School of Nursing in Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York. As we know, nursing school can be challenging and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with the amount of work we have to put in. But no worries! with the right amount of effort and self-organization it is not impossible to succeed in the field. So the goal of this blog is to bring to you, nursing students, some tips, encouragement, and suggestions on how to keep track of your work and how to stay healthy, not only physically, but also emotionally and psychologically!

We hope this blog is useful for all of you and helps you manage your time adequately in order to achieve your goals as future nurses!

#nursing #nurselife #health #nurseuniverse #nursingblog

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