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I did SC injection of regular insulin and the skill wasn't that hard, it was all the verbalizations I had to do w/ it! I passed though, and all the people who did dry sterile dressing that day but one, failed it! All the sterile stuff is hard! Good luck Friday I'm sure you will do fine this time, just take your time!
In NUR101 we were tested on injections, sterile technique, B/P, and I think that's it.... Injections wasn't so bad, but I was extremely nervous. We had to pick a card from a pile and mine was demerol given IM using a carpuject. Sterile technique wasn't so bad, but a lot of people were told that they should've grabbed extra supplies incase something should've happened like dropping the 4X4 in the wrong area or something. In class she stressed how it's important to always carry around extra supplies with you so you wouldn't have to turn your back from the sterile field.
I don't know what we're being tested on next semester. Not gonna think about it right now!
Toughest for me was cath insertion, since it was the first sterile skill we were tested on. I had to start over twice, from the beginning - we were allowed to still pass if we broke sterile field, but only if WE noticed, stopped outselved immediately, and started over. I have a little better "sterile conscious" now that I've practiced more, but I've still only cathed one real person, and it's the only sterile skill I've done in clinical. We have 20 hrs/week at the hospital next semester, I bet we'll get to do a lot more.
GypsyRose07
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Hi everyone :)
What clinical skill that you had to be tested on gave you the most trouble? Today was my last test out, and it was for a sterile dressing change/sterile gloves. Everything went smoothly when I removed the old dressing. But when it came time to begin the sterile procedure, I ended up putting my sterile gloves on the WRONG hands, and I didn't even realize it!
Also one of my 2x2s slid off of the package and hit the tabletop, and then I broke sterility by brushing up against the patient's gown. I swear, I felt like such an idiot. I actually even cried a little bit. My instructor was very sweet and helpful so tomorrow I'm going to practice and then re-test on Friday. She said it was the most difficult skill to test out on so far (this is my first semester) and to not beat myself up so badly because I definitely wasn't the only one, but I still feel terrible. I even grabbed a bunch of sterile gloves to take home with me to practice. 
How about all of you? What was your most difficult skill that you had to be tested on?