Ideas for a clinical "cheat sheet" ?

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I am in the process of putting together a clinical "cheat sheet" for my first semester students. What information would you have loved to have had in a miniature booklet for clinicals? So far, I have:

normal vitals by age range

normal labs for adults

ABG info (trying to make it something they will use in later semesters)

mini skills review cards (injections, NG tubes, cath, etc)

small map of the floor they will be working on

helpful facility phone numbers

objectives for that rotation

my cell phone number

Any other suggestions??

I also have the RN notes pocket guide and the meds pocket guide along with a few others that seem to help me out.

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Specializes in interested in NICU!!.

can you send that list to me when you get done with it, please?!!

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

Thanks to everyone for such good ideas!!! I am busily at work on this!

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Specializes in Trauma & Emergency.

Depending on what kind of floor your working on we used to have staging of pressure ulcers, common medical abbreviations (in case you forget something stupid), a quick review of the organs located in each of the abdominal quadrants, glasgow coma scale, insulins with peak times, and a burn chart with the rule of nine's. Don't know if any of that is helpful for the type of class you are teaching. Good luck..you sound like a great teacher.

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I'm in my final semester of school, but please... come be my clinical instructor! You seem like an awesome first year teacher. I wish mine was more like that instead of slapping our hands when we didn't do something her way. LOL

I wish I could have a copy of your cheat sheet too! Seems like a great idea. good luck with it.

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That does sound like such a great idea …… instead of all of us flooding you with request how about posting it and we can cut and paste and print it out ourselvesJ.

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That does sound like such a great idea ...... instead of all of us flooding you with request how about posting it and we can cut and paste and print it out ourselvesJ.

I love this idea! :D

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

I tried to upload this but it is a publisher file and apparently that's not a valid file extension. I converted it to PDF, and strangely, it has made a double image of everything, lol. Not sure why! Print one for a friend I suppose. I've attached the pdf version for you. It is 26 pages, should print at large index card size.

Obviously, much of this is copy/paste from other sites and images to create one giant packet.

clinical cheat sheet pdf version.pdf

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This is AMAZING!!! Thank you very, very much. I start nursing school in January, and this will definitely come in handy! :yeah:

:tku:

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Specializes in Public Health Nurse.

You are great for thinking to put this through and helping your students. I am all for you sending me one as well.

Definitely include ABG's normal values. The quick head to toe is awesome, and can you include some EKG's if you can.

Oh, please send them to me as well when you are done....LOL

Wished you were one of my instructors.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

It is already done and posted on page 2 of the thread. You can print one off from your computer.

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I am so going to print this off for me and one of my nursing student friends. I do not know how to print it off on large index cards though. Would you do that with a regular printer?

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