How have your skill checkoffs been??

[newbie08]

My class had skill checkoffs today. We arrived at school at 730 and made it through 3 checkoffs per student by the time class ended at 1200(there's 51 of us including 3 audits). There were 7 skills that we had to be prepared to demonstrate and when we went in the classroom we drew a skill from a cup then had to perform it. I had positioning(dorsal recumbent), sterile dressing change and deep breathing exercises. I was sooo nervous during checkoffs!! I was 'competent' on all 3 but if we never did a skills checkoff again, I wouldn't be heartbroken!! :wink2: The next checkoffs we do will include foley caths so that should be interesting...

How do checkoffs work at your school??

[shrimpchips, LPN]

We do 4 different skills check offs in my foundations class. the first one we had was on ROM and transfers/ambulation. everyone did ROM but each of us picked a card and we either had to do head, neck & shoulder; elbow, wrist & hand; or hip, knee & foot. then we either had to demonstrate a transfer from bed to chair or ambulation - we drew a card for this. i have another skills check this thursday - this time on vital signs! eek! i always get so nervous. i passed the first foundations one.

for my health assessment class, we have 3 different skills check offs. For the first one, everyone had to do a respiratory assessment, then we had to draw a card and either get skin (which was the hardest), head & neck (which was the easiest....and I got this one thank G*d lol ) and eye & ear. I passed this one, too! However, if you don't pass, the highest grade that you can get on the retest (and you get 3 tries) is a 50%!!! It's almost like there is no point in retesting if you're still going to fail lol. The skills check offs for health assessment are only worth 20% of our grade, but still...

[newbie08]

However, if you don't pass, the highest grade that you can get on the retest (and you get 3 tries) is a 50%!!! It's almost like there is no point in retesting if you're still going to fail lol. The skills check offs for health assessment are only worth 20% of our grade, but still...

Yikes!! We don't get an actual grade on ours, you're either competent or you're not. If you're not competent, you just have to re-try it on a makeup day.

Our next checkoffs will be sometime in November and will include inserting a Foley cath and getting a sterile specimen from a Foley cath. I actually can't wait for this checkoff, it seems more like 'official business' than the other stuff we checked off on. I know it's all important but this skill just seems more important.