coming up! anyone else had or having one soon? it's a quarter of our grade, so i'm all over study stack and my books. we get very little, if anything, from lecture (other than the ppt slide printout), so i'm not expecting mich that isn't in the book.
she gave us a study guide:
the role of florence nightengale (sic) in the nursing profession
the role of ana in nursing practice
what makes nursing a unique profession--how is it different from other health care profession?
the importance of accountability in the nursing profession and how is it maintained
the role of the nurse as a client advocate
the role of allied health care professionals and how their work combines with nursing
the basic premises of the ourstate nurse practice act
the difference between licensing and certification
what is the role of the ana's code of ethics--basic premise of the ana's code of ethics
definitions and examples of legal terms.
what is personal space and why it is important to recognize as a nurse
differences between aggressive, assertive, and nonassertive techniques.
therapeutic communication techniques!--what is "therapeutic" and what is "non-therapeutic"
examples of using validation communication
developmental aspects of communication to consider as a nurse
memorize and be able to use the abbreviations!
charting--narrative vs focus-dar
documentation of only what you observed as the nurse
[*]other types of documentation, i.e. kardex, flow sheets, etc.
[*]legalities with computerized charting
[*]traditional source chart records
[*]incident reports: reasons for and how to fill them out
that doesn't seem bad to me at all. i was actually expecting a lot more to have to cover. i mean, it's not going to be a breeze, but i think it's doable, especially with a long weekend (woo!).
