I took the med-ed two day class and used their CD's as well which I thought were better than Laura Gasparis. I agree, toss the CCRN book and use the test CD. Bookmark what questions you miss and study those. You can do just a few questions at a time so the study sessions were much less painful. It was a effective technique for me, I passed the exam last summer.
Is anybody using the BIS monitor on your sedated patients? A lot of our new nurses are oversedating or undersedating our patients and I wondered if the BIS would be useful. Our medicine patients can be intubated for weeks, then when we try to wake them up it can take a while. Seems like some folks like it and others don't. We did a trial in our unit but I never saw the results and the unit went away. Thanks, James