NURS 4465 - Vulnerable Populations (starting 8/12/13)

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Getting an early start on the support group thread for the August 4465 class.

I heard it's second only to Research in terms of horror level...though having just survived Research, I'm optimistic about this one--it can only be better than Research was.

I just finished the assignment for this week and submitted it. I have to take the quiz and then Ill be done for this week, and then only four weeks left.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

I'm working on it now. I hope they won't be too disappointed--I live in a small town, so if they're expecting tons of negative observations, it just isn't happening.

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Specializes in Operating Room.
I'm working on it now. I hope they won't be too disappointed--I live in a small town, so if they're expecting tons of negative observations, it just isn't happening.

Meriwhen,

Don’t worry, I did mine on a small town too. I had to dig to come up with the negatives, but there are some I had not noticed before taking this class. Like lack of public transportation, which could hinder older and economically disadvantaged populations from getting medical services, shopping for personal needs, and having social interactions. Also, there are limited available services sometimes in a small town, meaning the pickings are usually slim and the money is not always there to fund needed stuff.

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Me three! I did mine on a small, pleasant community. I also found that no public transportation was a problem.

Finding all that data for next week's assignment is going to be time consuming, yuk.

I did the quiz for this week. I thought it was pretty brutal. I did OK but I think I guest right on some of them to get my grade. I had 15 seconds to spare when I hit send. I have never cut it that close on a timed quiz.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

We have decent public transportation, decent services and everything is close enough to be walkable for most of the population...for a small town we're pretty well-designed :) My area's issue is the vagrants--we have A LOT of them. Though I suspect that some are "career" vagrants (as in they intentionally choose this lifestyle over finding work). Over the years, I've seen the exact same people with the exact same signs in the exact same places.

Oh yeah, and you can't go very far without hitting a head shop :)

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Any tips for the quiz? And I mean that in a general, helpful way not in a tell-me-where/how-you-got-the-answers-way.

I'm doing everything for this class tomorrow. The community is an urban area within Boston proper so I'm hoping that helps for when we need to find stats!

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Yes I do have a quiz tip! After I took the quiz I looked under the Reading/Weekly tips, and noticed that the "Consider these questions as you read" where pretty close to everything on the quiz. I'm going to use this to study before next weeks quiz.

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Great tip! It's hard to manage all of that with the sheer volume they want us to read!

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Okay so the windshield assessment sucked. 25 pages...ugh.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.
Okay so the windshield assessment sucked. 25 pages...ugh.

I'm at 16 pages. I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing.

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Mine was only 7 pages if I didn't count the week 2 assignment template pages at the end of the paper. My papers tend to be way shorter than anyone else's, but I almost always get an "A". I guess I am a less is more girl.

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I think we will all be fine. Honestly, I feel that so long as you hit each item on the rubric, you do well!

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