AVC CNSA Recognition

AVC CNSA

recognized the following individuals at their Luncheon yesterday with Certificates of Membership and a NSNA Graduation Cord:

Maria Fatima P. Bustos

Samantha Chavez

Evelyn Delgado

Rocio Diaz

Michele Forness

Kristie Hier

Brandi Hill

Nicole Hollinger

Michelle Kemp

Laura Maluccio

Jackie Merino

Karin Meyers

Karla Parada

Hope Ryan

Jade West

iPod touch Applications for Nursing

Applications  

  

Nursing Central has:

Davis Drug Guide     

Davis’s Lab and Diagnostic Tests  

Disease and Disorders  

Medline Journals    

Taber’s  

And Favorites  This I can see using with each patient, I will just save the med or lab as a favorite and can refer back to it. Or I can save all my common OB meds to favorites….

Lab Days Left

November 18 Wednesday     1 – 6 pm

November 21 Saturday     9 am – 1 pm

December 2 Wednesday 1 pm – 6 pm

December 5 Saturday 9 am – 1 pm

Nursing Hairstyles

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How does one find the right hairstyle?

Never have figured it out, but now it has to be “off the collar”, and “out of the face”.

 Style and color should be fashioned to promote safety and professionalism. (Luckily the facial hair isn’t a concern yet.)

I’ve searched and find various styles – maybe not quite right. Any suggestions?

gtt/mL

Okay, now the hard stuff. I received my Dimensional analysis for Meds book last night. This book is great. Shows how to do all these calculations. I wonder if we’re  going to learn this stuff in class. Figure I will just work my way through it this week, and then see where I went wrong in class.   

I really like the pictures in the book! Makes it easier to understand what I’m calculating. I’ll have to check out the CD that came with it also.

Begining Dosage Calculations

Simple Conversions – sets me up for Dosage Calculations.

Put your unknown on top, what we want below. Then place all our conversion factors on the other side of the equal sign, and solve for X.

Question – Dr wants you to give Drug X gr 1/400 sublingual  PRN chest pain.  You have a bottle labeled 0.15 mg per tablet. How many tablets will you give?

1st put the unknown on top as   X  tab, then as its denominator, put what we want (what the doctor ordered).

X tab

______

gr 1/400

Now start the conversion factors on the other side of the equal sign. We have a  bottle labeled 0.15 mg per tablet, or  0.15/1 tab. Make sure to place this on the opposite side of the equal sign with same units in same positions. In this case we have tablets. Should look like this.

X tab              1 tab

____          =    ______

gr 1/400       0.15 mg

Now tabs are same, but we need a conversion factor to get our mgs to equal grs. We know 60mg = 1 gr     Now we will add this conversion factor to the right side. Making sure to place units opposite this time!

X tab              1 tab        60 mg

____          =    ______ x  ______             

gr 1/400       0.15 mg     1 gr

Solving – We start off by working the right of the equation. Cross cancel what you can to simplify. We can cancel out the mg and we can put 0.15 into 0.15 once and into 60, 400 times.

X tab              1 tab        60⁴⁰⁰ mg

____          =    ______ x  ______

gr 1/400       0.15¹ mg     1 gr

Multiply right side, should look like this:

X tab              400 tab        

____          =    ______

gr 1/400       1 gr

Now we solve for X by cross-multiplying.

1X = 1/400(400)    or X  = 400/400  or x = 1

Our answer =         1 tablet

Simple Conversions

This is how I have set up my calculations.

Starting with conversions. Using a simple one we all know the answer to, I will set up my formula.

Question 1.      2000 mL = ____ L

First put what we want to know on the top of the equivalent line, or in the place of the numerator. We are going to use the algebraic X for the unknown.                X L

Then, for the denominator we put what we have. 2000 mL. So our equation will now look like this.

X  L

_______ =

2000 mL

Next we put all our equivalents on the other side of the equal sign. So we know 1 L = 1000 mL. When we put our equivalent or conversion factor up, make sure the same units are on the numerator or denominator side. Now the equation will look like this:

X  L                       1  L

_______ =     _________

2000 mL              1000 mL

When you have a ratio like this, you must cross multiply to get your answer. Starting with the top left you will get :

X  times 1000  = 2000 (1)          then,        1000 X  = 2000       then,    X = 2000/1000   then,    X = 2

or X = 2 Liter

This is the same way I set up my dosage calculations. Putting the question on the left of the equation, and then conversions on the right. Remember the first conversion or equivalent must line up with the left side’s units. All conversion factors after (on the left of the equation will have units opposite). On the right of the equation we will multiply straight across. Then we will cross multiply with the left side to solve for X.

So, a little harder conversion.

Question 2:    2 qt = _________  mL

X  mL               2 pt          500 mL

_____       =     ______    x    _____

2 qt                 1 qt           1 pt

Above we have the unknown in our 1st spot. Our known quantity (what we have) below it. Next on the opposite of the equal side (or our conversion side) we put our conversions to get there. We know 2 pints equal one quart. So we place this so the units are on same side. As we do this we see only one unit is the same – the quarts. We place it on the bottom and the unmatched one on top. Since we know we need to match up to mls, we find the equivalent for pts to mls.

Now any extra conversions on the right of our equation must have equal units opposite. This is different than the first fraction, and if I am going to mess up – this is it.

So we placed the 500 ml above 1 pt.

Now we solve for X.   Starting with the problem on the right of the equal sign. Here we cross out any equal units. So I would cancel the pt ‘s. Multiply straight across to get 1000 mL above 1 qt.

X  mL           2 pt 500 mL

_____      =    _____ x   ______

2 qt               1 qt         1 pt

X  mL             1000 mL

_____ =     _______

2 qt                    1 qt

Now that we have just one fraction on either side, with like units, we can cross-multiply to solve for X.

1 X  = 2 (1000)     or,       X = 2 (1000)     or,   X = 2000

So our answer is 2000 mL

Equivalents, Weights and Measures

Let’s see. 1 meow = 1 pat, 1 leg rub = 2 treat

Equivalents and Measurements – Test 2nd Week

 

My Nursing Assistants

       

Syllabus

I think I need to add to my list “get new ink for printer!”

The Syllabus is so long! I have added the following downloads to my resource pages.

Resource Manual PDF

NS 111 Fluid and Electrolytes Fall 2009 student version PDF

NS 110 Syllabus

Documentation Student Version Mod4.pdf

Self-care Theory Student Version Mod2.pdf

NS 111 Syllabus

These are only linked here as a reference to be referred to during my ADN program.

* No reproduction can be reproduced without the AVC nursing faculties permission.

BLS for Healthcare Provider Class

Today we did our CPR class. The whole class passed! It was very nice to have teachers who went over everything thoroughly. Even though we still stumbled through some easy/basic stuff we knew, we kept the process going with our new knowledge. Watch out world – we have the knowledge. Can we use it?

 

Out class was taught by Eva Pihlgren and Elizabeth Sundberg for the American Heart Association. Book cost $15, but you didn’t really need it if you paid attention to the class.

To Do List

Noted     What needs to be done?          Completed

Aug 10      class sub COM/PHL       approved 9/21/09

Aug 10      Finish Hep A                              6 Oct 09

Aug 10      Get 3rd Hep B                                6 oct 09

Aug 10      Sew Patches/uniform           Sep 10

Aug 10     Get Patches (3)                           Aug 13

Aug 10      Get books                                  Aug 15

Aug 10     Order Uniforms                          Aug 10

Aug 10   Get parking sticker                     Aug 13

Aug 10      Get ID card                              Sep 17

Aug 10     Get ASO sticker                         Aug 13-paid, get____

Aug 10     AHA BLS                                       Aug 11

Aug 6     ADN Resource Manual              Aug 6