NURS 3425 Holistic Health Assessment

rosi1009 · Oct 3, 2012

Amy,

Do you think we have to type down the name of every single lymph node on the objective part?

Regards,

Rosi

amyrnfa, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2012

I wouldn't hurt to put as much info as possible Amy. I feel like I'm being to wordy with the assessments too, but I don't think they're going to take points off the work being too extensive.

I agree! Wordy and somewhat repetitive, but they count off for omissions not extras. I hope...

amyrnfa, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2012

Amy,
Do you think we have to type down the name of every single lymph node on the objective part?
Regards,
Rosi

I did, but I grouped some together. Like the ones I could palpate were group into one sentence. The ones I could not feel (deep cervical & posterior cervical) were put together in one sentence. Example- "Deep and posterior cervical nodes non-palpable and non-tender". Just mention as much as you can, that is what should count. I am already sick of this assignment and hate eyes & ears!

jadiva · Oct 5, 2012

Hello Ladies,

How is it going?

jadiva · Oct 6, 2012

I don't know what happened, but my discussion grade in wk 1 was changed from 50% to 100%. Did anyone else realize this?

amyrnfa, BSN, RN · Oct 6, 2012

jadiva,

Glad they changed your grade. I think some were having problems finding the rubrics during the first week of class. Just realized that the last test is comprehensive, ugh, and worth about 30% of the grade. How is everyone else?

jadiva · Oct 6, 2012

I noticed that there was a comprehensive test too. Didn't realize that it was 30% of the grade. Guess I gotta make it work.

rosi1009 · Oct 9, 2012

This class is so frustrating! I can't never get the discussions right, I got another 50% because I didn't know I needed the "AEB", ugh! I didn't see any instructions about how to do the discussion. I haven't started on this week's assignments yet, and I can't believe we have a comprehensive test worth 30%

How are you all doing?

amyrnfa, BSN, RN · Oct 9, 2012

rosi1009, jadiva, & commonsense,

Looking at the last assignment I wonder if copy & paste would be appropriate. I can't believe we have to write all those assessments again. My AC said we should start now with our corrections made so we won't get behind. Seriously?...

jadiva · Oct 9, 2012

Week 5 apparently is comprehensive assessment. I haven't even looked at it yet. Yes, I think this class is a lot of work for nurses that have to work with families. It's too much now.

rosi1009 · Oct 10, 2012

I think this is all repeated information over and over again. I don't think they'll care if we repeat what we said if you had already asked the patient about that specific body part, etc or assessed that patient's area before, but I would put appropriate references. Is there such thing as self-plagiarism?...Well, there is! According to Wikipedia (2012), "Self-plagiarism (also known as "recycling fraud"^[50]) is the reuse of significant, identical, or nearly identical portions of one's own work without acknowledging that one is doing so or without citing the original work. Articles of this nature are often referred to as duplicate or multiple publication. In addition to the ethical issue, this can be illegal if copyright of the prior work has been transferred to another entity. Typically, self-plagiarism is only considered to be a serious ethical issue in settings where a publication is asserted to consist of new material, such as in academic publishing or educational assignments..."

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rosi1009 · Oct 10, 2012

I have a question about COLDSPA...If my patient has zero complaints this week I don't have to do one, is that right?

Thank you for your help!