Broward College Central Campus January 2011

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this thread was created for those attending broward college central campus in january 2011!!

lets all communicate, get organized, share ideas, and support one another!

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Does anyone know what we are supposed to make skills cards for? i know hand hygiene is one of them

Handwashing 175, protective person equipment 189, sterile field 192, sterile gloving 197, safe transfer techniques 205, moving and positioning patient in bed 216, applying elastic stockings and SDC's 243, bathing and personal hygiene 425, oral hygiene 436, mouth care for unconscious patient 441.

We must do 6/10 of them tomorrow, doesn't matter which ones. Oh by the way the # after the task is the page number in our perry and potter clinical book :)

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Handwashing 175, protective person equipment 189, sterile field 192, sterile gloving 197, safe transfer techniques 205, moving and positioning patient in bed 216, applying elastic stockings and SDC's 243, bathing and personal hygiene 425, oral hygiene 436, mouth care for unconscious patient 441.

We must do 6/10 of them tomorrow, doesn't matter which ones. Oh by the way the # after the task is the page number in our perry and potter clinical book :)

we can copy and paste? I'm not sure what I'm writing up here......help!

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Has anyone spoken to prior or current students or professors about where the test questions come from? For example, Are they from the publisher's suggested test questions or are they made by the professors? This might be important but also can be nothing to worry about....it all depends on how hard the exams are.

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Has anyone spoken to prior or current students or professors about where the test questions come from? For example, Are they from the publisher's suggested test questions or are they made by the professors? This might be important but also can be nothing to worry about....it all depends on how hard the exams are.

I'm currently in Cardio. It depends on the professor. For me, process test questions came largely from the book. After that they were more intense. However, recently there's been a lot of cheating so the professors are making them up themselves and making them harder. It sucks that a few people ruin it for us all.

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Thanks dizzyray! I hate cheaters. Reviewing this info I can't see how they do it...there is so much of it. LOL Is Pharm also right out of the book?

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I wouldn't worry as much about the pharm tests- just the picture I'm getting; I'm in Pharm on Monday night and it seems like our instructor is quite easygoing- she did mention that nothing would be on the exam she didn't go over in class; so I'm not even sure I would read the book word for word. I record her lecture, personally (Livescribe).

I WOULD pay a lot of attention to math. I personally heard the math instructor and my clinical instructor walking out of the library and they didn't notice me walking out at the same time, and one of them said- "Math's a real killer"; whereupon, I turned around, and saw who it was...and they sort of jokingly made shoo-away hand type motions, something like that. So. One exam in math. Three classes. I'd be studying. (NO CALCULATOR-whaaaattttt?)

For theory, what I'm focusing on for the test is what the counselor who came in (you can't post names on the forum, it won't let you, and if you do, a mod will come over and delete it), suggested: paying attention to the modules, finding those answers in the textbook, and then applying the concepts to powerpoints; with any additional time left over, reading more 'word for word' the text.

And in clinical, my husband went to the lab today and did the computer test taking thingy, and he said it really was AMAZING. There are lots of chances to fail clinical, so in my head, that's where the most hours needs to be devoted. And then the second most, to theory, followed by math, and then pharm.

Wonder how quickly we'll see the classes dwindle.

I have TONS of anxiety about performance type things- speeches, demos, etc. I had to do sterile gloving twice in health care core because I was so anxious I messed up and my thumb touched the glove. Don't know how to get rid of that, but I guess it's just one of those things you have to suck up, because it's not going away for 18 months, and I certainly don't want to drag it out longer than 18 months just because of anxiety, lol.

Any suggestions on ANYTHING from a current or former student at Central?

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What a practice quiz today!!!

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I'm online so I don't know about the practice quiz. I assume it was given in class? If not, where?

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It was given in class, and unfortunately we weren't allowed to bring them home. But if you go to the lab and sit at the computers they have a test taking success thingy, and if you take that, they have the kind of questions that'll show up on exams. Also helpful are the test success and fundamentals success books, which both explain how to critically think on a nursing exam/when caring for a patient. These exams are SO unlike anything we've ever taken- I didn't get ANY of the 5 (of 5) questions completely right, for instance. (My GPA is a 3.9, so, for instance, I'm very used to getting A's on exams-this was a shocker!!) There isn't memorization, there is application of concepts and knowing, 'what is this question asking me', and paying close attention to the wording. It's very tricky.

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Anyone have any good study tricks/ideas on how to study for this test?! Seems kind of impossible to read and fully understand 11 chapters in 2 weeks. Not feeling confident at all right now.

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Anyone have any good study tricks/ideas on how to study for this test?! Seems kind of impossible to read and fully understand 11 chapters in 2 weeks. Not feeling confident at all right now.

I'd say become proficient in being able to turn the objectives into questions and being able to answer them.....I heard that was the best way to do it. I think it also depends on your professor....

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I've definitely been looking at the objectives a lot more, and been looking at practice questions and taking those. It seems like the key is first really learning how to answer the question correctly.

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