JMederich

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1. ATI Appeal

   JMederich replied to sparklenshine1210's topic in General Students

   Is there an actual place for printing out the questions? Or are you talking about the review at then end of the practice test?

2. ATI Appeal

   JMederich replied to sparklenshine1210's topic in General Students

   I also have a very difficult time taking those ATI test. I don't know if you know about those tutorials on the ATI website that you can work through after taking the test. (they are long and boring but helpful). One thing that I did this semester for...

3. ATI Fundamentals exam

   JMederich replied to jwk429's topic in Student Assist

   On the ATI website there are practice exams you can take. Go to my eLearning and there are three tabs click the tutorials tab and its under review or something like that. There should be a couple on there. Also, read your ATI book! These are tough te...

4. Med-Surg ATI Comprehensive Final

   JMederich replied to tandv07's topic in General Students

   We do a lot of ATI test at my school as well. There are practice questions on the site that are very helpful. Under my eLearning, there's three tabs (Practice assessments, proctored assessments, and tutorials), under tutorials click on Learning syste...

5. Has Nursing hardened you?

   JMederich replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

   I'm also a nursing student and I have to say I have had a wonderful experience in school and at clinical. One thing that makes our class great is that everyone that has made it this far is really excited to learn. I've had a wonderful experiences wi...

6. Fainting with venipunctures

   JMederich replied to PaigeNicole's topic in General Students

   Try to reassure yourself that you are okay when observing. Have you actually tried to do one yourself yet? I lost sleep the nights before my first clinical week. I was terrified of doing one myself because it wasn't making me feel good. So I started ...

7. care plan question

   JMederich replied to JMederich's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks for your help. I have already turned in my paper and I do think his priority nursing diagnosis was risk for infection r/t impaired skin integrity and also r/t his underlying diseases. I had a very similar patient the week before (pt in renal f...

8. care plan question

   JMederich posted a topic in Student Assist

   This may seem obvious to most people, but I'm curious to know what you think. During clinical today I had a patient post op hip surgery. He also was Diabetic, in renal failure, and had diarrhea. He goes to dialysis 3x a week. What would be a priority...

9. Getting accepted into nursing school

   JMederich replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

   I was put on the waiting list and when I went down to talk to the dean she had told me I was number 2 on the list!! I prayed and prayed 2 people would decide to go somewhere else. Anyway, my mom is a nurse and a faculty member at the school and she h...

10. Anxiety Problems

    JMederich replied to JMederich's topic in Student Assist

    I'll never not go again because the same thing did happen to me the next week. I couldn't sleep. But for some reason as soon as I got to the hospital I was wide awake and ready to go! I have finally conquered my fears.. I hope.. I've done a Foley and...

11. Writing nursing papers

    JMederich replied to JMederich's topic in Student Assist

    I just finished my paper today using the purdue OWL website. It really did help. I'm not to worried about this one so much, hopefully I will get some good feedback and learn from my mistakes because I will have more of these in the future. My nursing...

12. Writing nursing papers

    JMederich posted a topic in Student Assist

    I have to write a paper on Geriatric nursing... in APA format! Does anyone know how to do APA? Basically what I'm wondering is; do you quote something in parenthesis always? ex. According to Perry & Potter, "Geriatric is the blah blah..." Or simp...

13. Anxiety Problems

    JMederich replied to JMederich's topic in Student Assist

    Thanks for all of your advice! I tried it all the night before this weeks clinical (I took benadryl, drank milk, and reviewed what I was most nervous about). I finally fell asleep at 1:30 but I sucked it up in the morning by having breakfast, coffee...

14. What is Nursing Diagnosis, and Why Should I Care?

    JMederich replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Students

    I'm a first year nursing student and we just started doing rounds in the hospital. We all have to make a care plan for our patient as homework. I feel very lost when is comes to making a nursing diagnosis because I feel like it's the wrong answer. Yo...

15. Anxiety Problems

    JMederich posted a topic in Student Assist

    HI! I am a first year nursing student and I just started my first clinical rotation at the hospital. I am having a lot of trouble falling asleep at night. Example, Last night I didn't fall asleep until 4am after going to be at a reasonable hour. I n...