study guide question #1 please feel free to add anything to this. Eighty heads are better than one.
Maybe if we come at this a different way we will see better results. If there is anyone that has it together and some way has found a method of studying that has shown positive results there are many of us out there that could use the advise so please help and post it on the blog. Thanks.
Types of wound drainage: table 47-2 pg. 1506-1507
Serous: clear, watery plasma
Purulent: thick, yellow, green, tan or brown
Serosanguineous: Pale, red, watery: mixture of clear and red fluid
Sanguineous: Bright red:indicates active bleeding
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hey liana,
thanks for posting that study guide #1 question. You're right we all need to pull together and help one another. thanks!!
#12 discuss the purpose of wound irrigation:
pg. 1543
is to cleanse a wound of exudate and debris.It requires a sterile technique and a medical order pg.1544 is needed. Direct solution from top to bottom of wound and from clean to contaminated area prevents further infection.
Dear frustrated,
I'm sorry to see anyone so down about the whole thing. It's not good for you, your fellow nursing students and your patients. You need to do some soul searching and think about what motivated you to be a nurse in the first place. Take an honest look at the NCLEX exam and decide for yourself if you think you are being prepared. Many, many good nurses have graduated this program and passed the State Boards, and many more will. It's up to you to WANT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. This is the easy part, it will get more difficult as we continue. I don't know who you are but I hope that if you change your mind, you can change your user name; I'd hate to see you "frustrated" for 2 years.
Dear frustrated,
I understand your point that we have much reading that is not related to the study guide. However, the study guide has been helpful to me on where to focus my studies on. Everything else was just good reading for my information. The problem with these exams is that there are too many good answers and we must learn to pick out the best one. Practicing nclex review exams has been very helpful to me to get used to these types of questions. They provide rationales for the right and wrong answers. If you do enough of these questions, I promise you that your train of thought will be transformed and you will learn to critically think like an nurse. Don't give up, talk to the instructors.
Harrison
I really think that you both gave very good advise. But honestly I can kind of see (frustrated) point of view at least a little. I for one I am not doing so well but I will not give up, so help me I will die trying. We have come to far to quit now. So I for one am going to once again reassess my study skills and try another way. There has to be a point at which it all starts to kick in. If frustrated is like many of us without any prior medical background this does seem extremely overwhelming and not ever taking a test that uses these types of questions is tough to figure out but it is not impossible. I have two years to get it right and I am sure that it can happen. So from one frustrated student to another it is just the beginning and it is too early to throw in the towel give it time it has only been three or four weeks. How funny some of this was actually said to me as well(remember harrison).
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