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I am a clinical instructor and have completed planning for 7 of my 14 clinical post conferences this semester. I have done this several semesters and I am jsut looking for fresh ideas. Hate to get in a rut. Pick some good post conference topics for me. If you are or were students, what would you like to learn about after a grueling clinical?

Specializes in Staff nurse.

I would have liked more hands-on practice with the machinery that was at the clinical site, which wasn't always what we had in sim-lab back on campus. I am hands-on learner and was intimidated by all the machines in the pt. room.

Also more practice on IV insertion on campus...on real people. The fake arms we had on campus were pitiful. I suggested we ask for volunteers and give them meal certificates as an incentive. It always irked me the emphasis on hand-washing we had, but when we practiced IV starts it was in a classroom with no sinks!!! Still bothers me...

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Restraints - we tied each other up- that was fun & discussed of course the do's and do not's of restraints, -IV machines, -we had a list of things to find on the floor- like crash carts, fire extinguishers, or little things were we really had to hunt like an obscure form or a certain type of tubing. Helped us familiarize ourselves with the floor and made me personally less afraid to open doors and look in drawers for things, made me more comfortable.

Patho of course- went to the hospital library once-

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