Nurse Bethie

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1. Accelerated BSN or 4 year BSN thru Mac

   Nurse Bethie replied to TRousse's topic in International

   Trousse, The program at Con-Mac does not have a way to specialize, however in 3rd and 4th year you have a say in where you do your clinical placements. As lalaxton said, you can guide you learning to where you want to go. I encourage you to keep yo...

2. Mcmaster Conestoga BSN prgram

   Nurse Bethie replied to TRousse's topic in International

   Are you attending the Conestoga site for the collaborative? If so, I will be one of your contacts in the program. I work in the Clinical Skills Lab whre all your "hands-on" skills are taught and practiced. I have also worked at the Mohawk site and...

3. Is anyone using computerized Human Patient Simulators?

   Nurse Bethie posted a topic in Educators

   We are just starting with our high fidelity Human Patient Simulators and I am wondering how others are using them within their nursing curriculum. I am responsible for the Clinical Skills Lab and will be the front line in introducing and operating t...

4. TOP TEN LIST: basic skills you should master..fast!!!!

   Nurse Bethie replied to Never_too_late's topic in General Students

   What a great thread! I am glad to see students interested in the skills needed for success. I agree with the other skills like assessment, sterile technique but the number one for me is MEDS! Having a good grasp of the 5 (or 6) rights and the 3 chec...

5. What to expect 1st semester of nursing school???

   Nurse Bethie replied to angl2839's topic in General Students

   Congratulations! You have a fun, difficult and rewarding road ahead of you. My advice (as a Clinical Skills Instructor, myself) is to always be prepared and admit when you are not sure of something. If a student comes to me with some information u...

6. What is a Saratoga Tube?

   Nurse Bethie replied to Nurse Bethie's topic in Gastroenterology

   The student states that the tube was in the abdomen (like a G tube) but looked like a salem sump tube. Have you ever heard of this before? The students mentioned that the nurses were irrigating through the blue vent tube which was the most confusin...

7. Does anyone have skills checklists?

   Nurse Bethie replied to sarahellen's topic in Educators

   "Modules for Basic Nursing Skills" by Ellis, Nowlis and Bentz has excellent skills checklists. It is a great resource for skills in general. It is concise and procides excellent rationales for students.

8. What is a Saratoga Tube?

   Nurse Bethie posted a topic in Gastroenterology

   Please help! I am a nursing instructor and one of the clients on our floor has a Saratoga tube...I have no idea what this is. I am hoping that you can help me to explain it to my students are direct me to reference so I can learn about it. Thank yo...

9. Clinical Skills Lab Suggestions

   Nurse Bethie replied to Nurse Bethie's topic in General Students

   Thank you again for all your great suggestions! I think that the comments about food in the lab are right...we do not allow food in our lab - just water in bottles - for those students who just practice for hours and hours! I am hearing that there ar...

10. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

    Nurse Bethie replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    I had a doc in trauma who like to order CTB-KLO Coffin to bedside - Keep lid open!

11. Clinical Skills Lab Suggestions

    Nurse Bethie replied to Nurse Bethie's topic in General Students

    Wow! I am impressed by the amount of feedback! Thank you so much! I appreciate that time, space and individual attention are the greatest difficulties in the lab setting. I am shocked at the teacher to student ratio that some of you described. ...

12. Delegation

    Nurse Bethie replied to JudithL_in_NH's topic in General Students

    Hi! Delegating ADL tasks is a topic up for debate. If you look at an article from Nursing2004 (November, p.57) called "Are you Too Posh to Wash?" and the follow up letters in Nursing2005 (January p.8) there is a arguement for not delegating those A...

13. Clinical Skills Lab Suggestions

    Nurse Bethie posted a topic in General Students

    Hi! I am an instructor in the Clincal Skills Lab (mock hospital unit) at a Nursing College. I am looking for suggestions and feedback from students nurses from all over the place. I have gotten feedback from my own students about what they like and...

14. Any young nurse educators out there..

    Nurse Bethie replied to EmmaSwan47's topic in Educators

    This is a great discussion! I am 29 (almost 30) and I am full time at a nursing college in Ontario. I actually head up the Clinical Skills Lab (on campus mock hospital area) and have found many different reactions. I do not find that the students h...

15. Checkoffs

    Nurse Bethie replied to ileany11's topic in General Students

    I agree with the advice you are getting. It is most important part of a transfer is communication and eye contact. Ensure that you give simple instructions, one step at a time and wait for ackowledgement of the instructions before proceeding. I fi...