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Im in my second semester of nursing school, and I'm good at memorizing lab values, etc. but my problem comes when we need to figure out what to do first in a situation, etc. - which is pretty much what NCLEX is from what our teachers are telling us. I was thinking about buying an NCLEX study book and spend a little bit of time every week going over it. I figure since we dont get our tests back, i need something to practice with that will make me think critically - has anyone else done this? has it helped? TIA!

ShockerGirl

Specializes in RN, Cardiac Step Down/Tele Unit.
Expose is for Trauma, or when you're in the ER. We just learned this in class a few days ago. You want to expose the wound to see what it looks liek and get the person out of their normal clothes into a hospital gown. Or you want to expose the entire body to find more wounds than just the one that is blatantly obvious.

Your extended ABC's sounds exactly like the trauama/ER assessment we were just taught.

Yup, thats it, I just could not remember it at that moment. That makes sense that it is for trauma, since my fundamentals instructor is a critical care nurse! He just introduced it to us early! Thanks for the reminder! :wink2:

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ABCs, safety, then priority needs by which ones are detrimental or just casual.

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