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May 21, 2009, 10:20 PM
 Re: National University San Diego
April Cohort...how are you gals doing this month????? Must be very busy because I haven't seen many posts this month. Please, if you can, let us know how you're doing.
Thanks!
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May 23, 2009, 07:45 PM
Re: National University San Diego
hey! i am from the april cohort and YES things are busy! plus...we all see each other every week and so we are able to talk about things in class instead of on this website. good luck to everyone applying, it is a great program!
anyone out there from earlier cohorts... rumor is we get a break in july? is that true? let me know! ill email jill but im really curious and dont have patience to wait til next week to hear back  | | No. 653 |
May 23, 2009, 08:27 PM
Re: National University San Diego Originally Posted by danni314  hey! i am from the april cohort and YES things are busy! plus...we all see each other every week and so we are able to talk about things in class instead of on this website. good luck to everyone applying, it is a great program!
anyone out there from earlier cohorts... rumor is we get a break in july? is that true? let me know! ill email jill but im really curious and dont have patience to wait til next week to hear back
Yes, Danielle, we get a week break in the last week of June / first week of July - I had no idea. I thought our first break will be during Christmas, so that was a nice surprise.
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May 23, 2009, 09:34 PM
Re: National University San Diego
oh awesome! kinda a bummer though for me im trying to plan a weekend away july 17-19 but we wont know clinic schedules! i figured if the break was around there id be in the free but i guess it makes more sense for it to b 4th of july weekend.
thanks diana | | No. 655 |
May 25, 2009, 01:35 PM
Re: National University San Diego
hey guys,
i was wondering if you can help me out. we're finishing up the nsg 211 class, and we're having the final focused exam in lab. can you explain to me what you gals did for your class?...because i have no clue what we're doing! our teacher never explained it to us like what we're supposed to be doing, looking for, or anything! she just gave us a list of symptoms (like right swollen ankle, left wrist pain, chest pain...etc) and expected us to know what to do. we asked her, but all she said was something like, "make sure to take vitals, then test to see whats the problem"... 
anything would be greatly appreciated!! THANKS!!
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May 25, 2009, 09:45 PM
Re: National University San Diego
Well for our clinical group we had to first go right into OLDCART (onset, location, duration, characteristics, aggrivating factors, relieving factors, treatment) and then the brief health history pertaining to the problem. I pulled a card that explained the patient was having chest pain and sore throat or something...I think...Anyways, I ended up having to do a complete neck and chest/cardio exam. (Trachea, thyroid, lymph nodes, carotids, check for JVD, and then the full cardio exam). We had 30 minutes to do the entire exam and they brought in a live model for us to do it on. The whole thing was very intimidating but we got through it! I am sure you'll be fine! We were allowed to make a 5 x 7 card to write whatever we wanted on it so I put all the exams in tiny writing. We had to keep it away from us during the exam but if we wanted to look at it we could, we just had to ask first. To tell you the truth I didn't even look at mine once so I'm sure you'll do great!! Do you have pharm next month? We take our Pharm final on Friday....then it's on to Fundamentals!!
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May 25, 2009, 10:44 PM
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May 25, 2009 at 10:57 PM by muimui
Re: National University San Diego Originally Posted by prettyinpink57 Well for our clinical group we had to first go right into OLDCART (onset, location, duration, characteristics, aggrivating factors, relieving factors, treatment) and then the brief health history pertaining to the problem. I pulled a card that explained the patient was having chest pain and sore throat or something...I think...Anyways, I ended up having to do a complete neck and chest/cardio exam. (Trachea, thyroid, lymph nodes, carotids, check for JVD, and then the full cardio exam). We had 30 minutes to do the entire exam and they brought in a live model for us to do it on. The whole thing was very intimidating but we got through it! I am sure you'll be fine! We were allowed to make a 5 x 7 card to write whatever we wanted on it so I put all the exams in tiny writing. We had to keep it away from us during the exam but if we wanted to look at it we could, we just had to ask first. To tell you the truth I didn't even look at mine once so I'm sure you'll do great!! Do you have pharm next month? We take our Pharm final on Friday....then it's on to Fundamentals!!
thank you so much!!! that really helps alot  our teacher never taught us the OLDCART, so that's great to know! thanks for sharing!! in fact, our teacher didn't even finish teaching us everything we need to know to do this! she only taught us the assessments for the head... and nothing below the head.. so my classmates and i all feel soo lost because we basically have to learn everything else on our own 
but i feel alot better because it seems like we just need to get subjective information, and then the physical that pertains to just the area of where it hurts. does that sound right?
yup! we'll be starting pharm on june 4th. so do you really need 90% or above on the drug calculations to move on in the class? i'm a little nervous about that because i am terrible at math. how do you feel about the class? was it super hard?
good luck on your final! after that, just 20 months left for you guys, right?  hehe
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