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1. question re clinical skills???

   blue eyes replied to bjs1962's topic in International

   You might want to try Clinical psychomotor skills : assessment tools for nursing students by Joanne Tollefson. It has a lot of the nursing skills/clinical skills competency in it. E.g. COMPETENCT: Aseptic technique p1 COMPETENCY: Aseptic technique...

2. Enemas, Catheters , and OTHER embarassing things in nursing school

   blue eyes replied to RNinJune2007's topic in General Students

   That's pretty much what our lecturers tell us we're usually told that it's 'all for the patients comfort'. re: Bed baths, showering someone enema suppository and anything else that might be embarrassing/feel awkward- Btw, we're doing enemas/supposit...

3. major distance from home to school

   blue eyes replied to Ready's topic in General Students

   Takes me 1 1/2h - 1h 40mins to get to uni, 2 hours now with all the roadwork. I'm lucky in that live on campus, I couldn't stand driving that far every day of the week ... have done it a couple of times this yr ... by the end of the day I feel so gr...

4. Laptop vs. Desktop for a student?

   blue eyes replied to Sarah09's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I only use a laptop so I can access the wireless internet at uni (. I could go desktop now that the uni has switched from wireless to cable internet for students living on campus but a laptop is so much more convenient - I can take it over to library...

5. Nursing Equipment

   blue eyes replied to Michelle123's topic in International

   this is the stethoscope i use; it is a littmann classic ii. depending on your university you'll do a fair bit of vital signs in nursing labs and some physical assessment techniques, so a stethoscope will come in handy. my personal preference was no...

6. Percussing?

   blue eyes replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

   yes! we had to learn how to do indirect percussion - part of our skills assessment for the semester just gone was physical assessment, had to get this signed off before results could be processed. while i seem to have good technique, it's distinguish...

7. Help w/ taking BPs!

   blue eyes replied to youknowho's topic in General Students

   If you don't already do so try doing a palpatory systolic determination before you auscultate - feel the radial pulse as you pump the cuff up, when the pulse disappears pump the cuff up an extra 33mmHg when you feel the pulse come back that is roughl...

8. Skills assessment torture.

   blue eyes replied to blue eyes's topic in General Students

   it hasn't been mentioned to us in labs or lectures. this is the performance criteria for our vital signs assessments, which doesn't mention patient identication - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/blue_eyes3/vitalsigns.jpg . i guess maybe we are...

9. Skills assessment torture.

   blue eyes replied to blue eyes's topic in General Students

   That's good advice. Btw, our exams (for the most part) aren't too bad - we tend to get a lot of MCQs and few short answer questions. I'm dreading my nursing practice exam - 40% worth of marks MCQs, 40% case scenarios and 20% are short answer. I don'...

10. Skills assessment torture.

    blue eyes posted a topic in General Students

    ... well not really, but it felt like that. Today I had skills assessment, would have thought it would be a breeze, considering I did all this last yr. Got to the labs at 3pm, panicked b/c I was running late, didn't matter once I got there, Monday s...

11. Grad. Dip./post registration after bachelor of nursing?

    blue eyes posted a topic in International

    I was just wondering what you all thought about doing a 4th year (Grad. Dip. or bachelor of nsg: post registration) after completing the 3 year bachelor of nursing? It's something I've thought about, but not the year after finishing my 3rd year. Does...

12. new students - what do you fear most?

    blue eyes replied to speedykicks's topic in General Students

    Perineal care. :stone Can handle vomit, urine, sputum, blood etc ... but when I first started I feared perineal care the most! We practiced giving bed baths and mouth care on the models + it is expected that we use the labs outside of class tim...

13. Anyone not work AND childless during nursing school???

    blue eyes replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Students

    don't work, don't have kids, i live on campus and i only have class 3 days a week - doesn't get much easier than that. i know a few students who have family commitments, work, study part time and are finding the course to be rather stressful. under...

14. What Term Are They Looking For?

    blue eyes replied to Pachinko's topic in Student Assist

    i think the term may be "direct contact". from my micro book: "direct contact refers to close of intimate contact b/w the infected person and susceptible individual. exposure to skin and body secretions, such as occurs during kissing and sexual activ...

15. digestion

    blue eyes replied to cgbw's topic in Student Assist

    The digestive process consists of 5 steps: Ingestion, digestion, absorption, metabolism and excretion (though I think this could be disputed, but this is what I have in my lecture notes/slides) Ingestion = transfer of food from outside the mouth to i...