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Thanks for the feed back, I will certainly take your suggestions and but them to work the best we can. We have a CIQ them working on this and reporting all evaluations, problems, solutions and suggestions etc. We have had a nurse suggest team nursing...

Does anyone have any feedback on better response time on a medsurg floor. I have recently been ask to research how to improve response time on a medsurg floor and have been unable to find anything on the net or in journals short of better staffing. T...

My school has a mentoring program that works like this. I did the ADN program so we have four levels to work with. 3rd level students volunteered to mentor 1st level students and when moving on to 4th level continued to mentor the same student during...

I used the Hesi study guide and CD plus did Nclex review questions every chance I got. I am pleased to say that I passed the hesi first try and just graduated on May 12th. I start my preceptor for state licensure on June 5th and I am really excited. ...

Listen to Daytonite! The suggestions and advise offered have proven very valuable to me as a student.

We have had this problem in the past but with enough students complaining about the disruption our policy is now enforced. If the phone rings during lecture you receive a warning the first time, leave the next time. If it rings during a test it is au...

What do you mean by (search activity intolerance)? Exactly what type of information about activity intolerance do you need? I will be glad to help if I can but need to know more about what you are asking.

For vital sign check off's the only questions we had to ask before taking the blood pressure were -- "Do you have a preference as to which arm I take your blood pressure in" and "Have you had any procedures or injuries that may interfere with blood p...

Have you checked with your school library concerning online articles? My school library has a connection to EBSCO and has full text articles from nursing/medical journals available online through this connection. Of course they have this available fo...

Congrats, sounds like you are doing great and have the right attitude to succeed! In my program we must have at least a 77% in all lecture classes and pass a demonstration lab test before attending clinicals. Below that average or failing the labs an...

By the time I check VS in a clinical setting the introduction and initial patient assessment (head to toe minus VS) has already taken place (we start clinicals at 7a.m. and most hospitals in my area take VS at 10am and 2pm, unless the patient's condi...

I am currently doing clinicals at a pediatric ward. My patient had Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis. The nursing notes in the chart read as follows: meeting EPOS, A6A, MAE, PERL, Pulse + I know that MAE means moves all extremeties and PERL is pu...

Got in touch with my instructor and this is the verdict. EPOS means the client is meeting expected outcomes and A6A was misread -- should have been A&O for alert and oriented.Thankfully she was on the ward and able to verify this information for ...

I will call my clinical instructor tomorrow (who works at the hospital I currently have clinicals in and see if she can help. I appreciate the effort from both of you more than you know! The only thing I can find on the EPOS is Eindhoven osteoporosis...

The best help is knowing you have studied, you are prepared and the best you can do is all you can do. Also, remember that what you fail in now only opens the door to improvement for the futher. I wish you all the luck in the world and feel that you ...

This may or may not work for you, but my lab instructor told us if we had problems finding the brachial to start from the inside of the elbow and slowly work our way in, pressing lightly then deeper. When that did not work she had me to find the ridg...

Just came across this posting and found it interesting. The school I attend does not have clinical points. We have pre-clinical checkoffs that are either passed or unsatisfactory (no in between). If we pass, we attend live clinicals were we are grade...

I am going to be of no help whatsoever answering your question but would be interested in the answer. If I were in your position I would ask the instructor to explain what he/she is looking for when they say reported effects. If it is possible post t...

Hi everyone, I am Rhoda from KY. I am 41 yrs old with one 17 yr. old son. I am in my first semester of a ADN program and love it. I wish I had done this years ago but it's never too late. I lucked upon this site and it has proven to be very very help...

This may seem remedial but it works for me. I made descent grades in highschool but have returned to college 22 years later and it has been a whole new world in the education department. I record lectures when premitted which enables me to reference ...

Happy Thanksgiving! and take some time to relax. I know what you mean, I have test next week as well and a 5 page essay due. I will spend much of my time this holiday break on school studies, but I will take a 4-5 hour vacation from it and enjoy fami...

I agree that the hands on experience with patients would be great. Perhaps you could work part-time, attend school part-time during the year wait if you have no interest in attending another program. My school offers several classes that are not requ...

Thanks the sites will be very useful. Do you know of any sites that offer drug card downloads or information? I have had trouble getting the clinical drug card information required for some of the medication. I am a first year student doing my first ...