Holistic Health Assessment starting 9/23

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Hey everyone! I wanted to start a thread to see who is enrolling in this course. I have purchased my books used on Amazon. Hopefully we can get through this course together!

Specializes in Emergency/ICU.

Still working on eye portion of objective assignment and I'd just like to say, "Goodbye, life!"

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Specializes in Emergency/ICU.

Shara: That stinks about your week and hours. Pulling for you!

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the eye portion was completely unnecessary. We will never us this information in our careers. It is bogus to waste time like this. I agree that you should have the general knowledge and be able to perform basic eye exams but this is beyond nursing in my opinion.

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I actually turned in everything on time. Working on my discussion and hopefully taking the quiz soon. I received a 90 and 100 on last week's assignments but I didn't do good on the quiz. I got a 65 which I was soooo ****** about.

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I actually turned in everything on time. Working on my discussion and hopefully taking the quiz soon. I received a 90 and 100 on last week's assignments but I didn't do good on the quiz. I got a 65 which I was soooo ****** about.

I feel like the quizzes are weird in that the book doesn't teach us anything yet we are required to pull critical thinking out of our butts for half of it...oy!

In my latest annoyance with UTA, I asked my AC if it would be possible to open the final quiz up for me early as I'm trying to get ahead in the course (I'm halfway done with week 3) since I leave for a vacation abroad on the 18th...her reply was something along the lines of needing to check the course blackboard daily for announcements...um, yea, thanks for addressing the question, moron.

I actually think I am going to write back and cc the professor and say "I'm afraid my question wasn't addressed in this response - would it it be possible to open the final quiz up early so that I may actually enjoy a well-earned vacation? A yea or no answer will suffice"

So annoying. These people are idiots, they really are.

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Specializes in Emergency/ICU.

Week 3. Getting started and not looking forward to hours and hours of sitting. Hope I don't get a DVT! Hope everyone in class is hanging in there. It will feel good to get week 3 behind us, but first I've got to make myself start. So long, world!

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Specializes in Emergency/ICU.

BTW, did anyone get an answer about putting a COLDSPA in every assignment? My patient has a skin condition to the torso, so the COLDSPA fit in fine with the Week 2 subjective assessment, but this week is about the heart, lungs, and vessels, so it doesn't GO with the assessment. Anyone else encouner this? Did you put it in anyway even though it doesn't make sense to? I guess I can put it with the section about the lungs since it is on the torso...

Almost done with subjective. DREADING objective. Hope to pull it off tonight - HOPE to.

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I think you can use "risk for" as part of your diagnosis to cover the fact that your patient may not have any abnormalities based in the assessment.

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Specializes in ICU.

I finally figured out how to tell what I was counted off for and I am ticked! I was counted off for things I covered and the comments weren't even vague - they were just one word descriptions like "height, weight, address." Height and weight were covered. Address wasn't because as big as UTA has been on HIPAA I didn't include it. I like it when people actually comment in a manner that allows me to make improvements.

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Specializes in Emergency/ICU.

Getting an early start to week 4 objective and it is a good bit longer than week 3 (which I didn't think was too bad, compared to week 2). Just give yourself a lot of time. I'm just telling myself that once I get through week 4, only 1 week left and I'm done with this much-dreaded class.

All in all, this class hasn't been as bad as I feared. I did Research and Vulnurable prior to this, and this class is moderately hard (mostly because of time consumption and monotony) compared to those. The discussion posts are easy if you follow instructions, and the quizzes aren't bad if you do your assessment assignments first. The important thing to remember is to follow instructions and be meticulous in your assignments. If they say they want to know assessment techniques, write them out. There's a list of common errors. Refer to it, you'll be surprised at what you missed that can be corrected (even if you thought you were being exact).

This seems to be a class that wants to know you can jump through assessment hoops correctly, in order, and explain exactly how you did it. I've found it helps with my documentation, and identifying landmarks and anatomical positions. I am actually learning a good bit here, and I'm utilizing it at work.

OK, back to work on musculoskeletal... seeing the light of week 5 on the horizon.

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Specializes in Emergency/ICU.

Oh Gosh - Week 4 brutal obj assignment completed. Prepare to have no life if you're just getting started. Thankfully, some stuff can be copied over.

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Specializes in ICU.

Definitely not what I was hoping to hear. These assignments being due so early in the week are killing me. It doesn't work well with my schedule.

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