Kaychell

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1. Hospice QAPI Tools

   Kaychell posted a topic in Hospice

   We are a super small hospice (Staff of 5, census of

2. Stethoscopes

   Kaychell replied to kcmc08's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I have a Litmann Lightweight and I love it!

3. what textbook is everyone using?

   Kaychell replied to mischief08's topic in General Students

   We use Kozier & Erb for theory and Perry & Potter for lab

4. Your Daily Life-Schedule

   Kaychell replied to School-Mom's topic in General Students

   I agree with the previous comments, take it one semester at a time and ALWAYS have a back-up daycare. I'm married with 2 small children (5, 2), my husband leaves the house at 6am and my school is a 72 mile one-way commute. I also spend the night in ...

5. online Anatomy and Physiology

   Kaychell replied to becks77's topic in General Students

   I took anatomy online through EduKan (I already had taken phys.). My school accepted the online anatomy without a problem. EduKan is a kansas based program that links a bunch of Kansas schools together and offers the classes online. I'm in Oklahoma a...

6. Notes for Nursing?

   Kaychell replied to Stella10's topic in General Students

   I take notes during lectures, then two days a week I spend A LOT of time (read 8 hours/day) in the library reading the chapters, making flash cards, relistening to the lectures, rereading the lecture slides, using my Saunders NCLEX review book and th...

7. Do you call your teachers by their 1st names?

   Kaychell replied to noyesno's topic in General Students

   We say "Mr or Mrs ____". We have one who's last name is kind of difficult so she goes by Mrs. and the 1st letter of her last name. 'Ex. Mrs. B"

8. Bathing advice for contractured patient

   Kaychell posted a topic in General Nursing

   Yesterday was my first clinical at the nursing home. I observed a contractured bedbound patient being given a bed bath. The aide bathing the pt, did a quick bath and had some difficulties bathing the patients contractured hands without causing a sign...

9. As if nursing isn't hard enough, this comment appeared in a local newpaper by "none"

   Kaychell replied to latebloomernurse's topic in General Nursing

   After working at a university and now going into nursing, I agree that both should be paid $50/hr. Nursing and educators both have to deal with a public that is less than pleasant at times. Kids with an attitude or families that are a bunch of crazie...

10. Do you know how to find all the pulses?

    Kaychell replied to queenjulie's topic in Student Assist

    Now we haven't done any dressing changes or anything like that. The week before last we learned how to put on sterile gloves, isolation techniques, restraints, bed baths, bed making and handwashing. Last week we learned pulse points, BP's, temperatur...

11. Exam Stories

    Kaychell replied to mkhoaja's topic in General Students

    We had a quiz yesterday and one of the questions was a definition and we had to state the word that belonged to that definition. When was studying for the quiz I was so focused on being able to spell the words in the definition correctly that I forgo...

12. How did you do on your first test

    Kaychell replied to cjungen's topic in General Students

    I got an 86 on our first exam and a 90 and an 86 on our first and second quizzes. Don't over study Get at least 8 hours of sleep the night before Eat a good breakfast (protein and carb, not snicker and diet coke) Don't hurry through test Go with you...

13. Clients? Are they no longer patients?

    Kaychell replied to bassadict69's topic in General Students

    Our prof. told us that it was patients, then went to clients, and now it's patients again. I think I read in our text that it went from patient to client because patient sounded like people were being included as an active participant in decisions re...

14. Fundamentals Test Review

    Kaychell replied to Tcap40's topic in General Students

    There's a ton of websites that have review questions. www.nursingcrib.com www.atitesting.com (if your school uses ATI) http://caring4you.net/tests.html Do a YAHOO search for NCLEX practice questions and a bunch of websites should come up. Also if ...

15. What to do when you have two answers left on an exam?

    Kaychell replied to AllThingsPink's topic in General Students

    I posted a couple of replies under the Critical Thinking post on the Student Nursing Asistance board that may be helpful to you!