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Google Mark Klimek Reviews and find some of his study material. I don't think I would have answered so many questions correctly without his memorization techniques and strategy principles. You may be able to find his review book material on quizlet.

Ive heard different things about the various study methods. First, Saunders is a great tool to help pass tests in nursing school and to practice how to approach SATA and other alternative format questions, but useless on the NCLEX, because the information is too easy. Others say to use either Pearson or ATI to prepare for the NCLEX.

Disregard. After speaking with several nurses, there is a device called a rebound tonometer that was FDA approved in march 2017, that is safe for patient use at home and does not require a local anesthetic, which is probably why tonometry was never in the nursing scope prior. However, I know that this device is now in the nursing scope in Georgia, and as states update their nursing scope to allow this device to be used, we will probably see nurses use it as casually for glaucoma patients, as nurses use blood glucose meters for diabetics. With that said, I am correct! Tonometry combined with a pain assessment is the best way to determine if the glaucoma medication was effective.

Don't sweat it. It sounds about normal to me, as I did the same thing. Just don't burn yourself out, and develop good time management skills now, because time management gets worse in nursing school. Study hard and good luck to you!

I think your crazy. You had the best day ever!!! We are opposites in this as I would LOVED to have traded you for that kind of a day. My first semester at the hospital, we were forbidden to use the computers due to hospital policy. All of our charting was done by old school paper formatting, which was time consuming, but really helped hone in on charting as a skill. Our documentation was shredded at the end of our shift anyway, because we were in frequent verbal contact with our assigned nurse who did the charting on the computer. I BEGGED to have a day with a CNA because they were short staffed. I wanted to perfect my skills, because I may have to delegate, or in the future, I may be assigned as a CNA, even though I'll be a licenced nurse, to do nothing but take vitals because there is a CNA shortage (or if someone is sick). Eventually I got to shadow a CNA. It gave me a great appreciation of what they do in such a short amount of time. And let me be clear, there IS NO SUCH THING AS CNA WORK. CNA WORK IS WITHIN THE NURSING SCOPE. You should be happy that you got that experience as a student, and take advantage of every opportunity, because this is your time to make mistakes and learn from it and get better at basic skills. You may not get that opportunity again after nursing school.

This is my first post and I am new to allnurses. Here's the scenario. I just finished preparing a statement for a course online discussion board for pharmacology class, and this week's forum discussed glaucoma medications. One of the questions my instructor asked was "how does the nurse know if the medications are effective?" In my response I said that pain scale was a factor, but since the goal of glaucoma meds are to lower IOP, I was thinking it is completely arbitrary for a nurse to use pain reduction to test effectiveness in this case. I was thinking that a scientific approach would be patient's report of pain reduction plus a tonometry test to measure effectiveness. So with that said, is use of a portable handheld tonometer as a tool to measure IOP within the nursing scope of practice? Or is tonometry only in the physician's scope of practice? Thank you.