Complete Head-to-Toe Physical Exam...

[LadyEJ BSN, RN]

My first semester of my BSN program is coming to an end the the last 25% of our grade is based on our technique and sequence of a 174 point of a complete physical of an adult. I am scheduled for tomorrow at 10:15A.M. Was this required of anyone else in their first semester? I am desperate for any tips on how to remember all of this crap. I blew it off all semester and now its the night before and though I am doing ok, I'm not confident. I currently have an 88% in this class. This exam can drastically lower my grade. I'm so worried and really want to do well.

[RNMeg]

That's terrifying. My instructors took a pretty common sense approach to the Assessment final..in real life, we're going to have an exam form to prompt us to remember what to assess. So, she gave us a form with all the points we needed to hit listed, and graded us on how efficiently we were able to perform the assessment, as well as time and correct placement of the stethoscope during the cardiac, pulmonary and abdominal parts. We were to dictate our findings to her during the assessment. We had 30 minutes..I completed it in 19 minutes and got a perfect score :) It's not as scary as you're imagining, I'm sure..like other posters said, it's just putting together everything you've already learned.

[MissJS]

Hope she did okay. I waited until the last minute to actually perform the physical assessment with my partner. Got a B on it & an A in the Health Assessment class. Like Daytonite said you live & learn. I'll NEVER do that again.