JamieJCST

This is how I was taught in Surgical Tech school.

I have been a CST for 5 years and am now in my RN orientation. I am trying to get a good flow for doing preop interviews. I always seem to forget to ask something. Can anyone give me examples of how you do your interviews?Thanks!

All of our new hires have to spend 4 days in SPD learning all aspects of the department. They spend at least 1 full day assembling instrument trays and they find that this helps with learning some of the instruments.

I took the Kaplan Review course and then scheduled my test date about 1-1/2 months after. I did all if the q trainers and about 95% of the q bank questions. I only did 50 questions a day, unless I got below a 60%, then I did another 50. I read all...

I answered 50 Kaplan Qbank questions almost everyday. I read most of the rationales for all the questions. I took my NCLEX last Monday and passed with 75 questions.Good luck!

There are definitely jobs out there for ADN. 4 people I graduated with had jobs before we even finished school.Another thing to think about is tuition reimbursement for the RN-BSN. I currently work for a hospital that will pay 100% for me to get my...

I will be taking my boards probably in July and I will give feedback afterwards. It looks like a great study guide! Thanks for sharing!

I would also love any info you have. I don't know how to PM with this new format.:)

We always count on laparoscopic assisted bowels. Rule of thumb, whenever a cavity is opened, no matter how big the incision, instruments are counted.

This is a great strategy and I plan on using it for my seconde year. Thanks!

I am in my first year at PSC. Let me know if you have any questions. Good luck!

Advocate Christ & Hope Children's Hospital are only hiring BSNs because of their magnet status.

I'm curious as to how the RNs on here feel about CNAs/PCTs, CRNAs, PAs, NPs, etc. Are they all just "cheap labor" as well?

I think this is a great assessment worksheet!! The only thing I can think of that you might want to add is a section on the last page for discharge planning. I'm only saying this because we have to do an asignment on discharge planning for one patien...

I have been a CST for almost 4 years and I love it! I am currently in an RN program but I'm glad I started out with ST because it got me into the OR quicker and it worked for me at the time (plus the tuition reimbursement is nice). I was looking a...

I don't know about other schools but at mine, we were never taught how to critical think. We were just expected to do it on our tests. I can see how experence would help with this but we shouldn't be expected to know how to di it without guidance o...

Solneeshka, Thank you for posting that assessment. I am in my second semester and I've never really done a good head to toe assessment because I didn't really know what or how to do a good one. Well, I do now. Thanks, again!!

It depends on how different the editions are and what works best for you. I had the last edition of the Potter & Perry fundamentals book for my first semester and it was actually a pain for me to figure out what I needed to read. The chapters w...

I just wanted to add that as of Jan 1, Christ and Hope will only hire BSN nurses because of Magnet designation. As far as I know, these are the only Advocate hospitals doing it at this time but I'm sure the others will follow if they are Magnet hospi...

I like to work out in the morning and then I'm done for the day. It's too easy to come up with excuses later in the day. I just wake up 40 minutes earlier than usual and I try to do this 4 times a week.

We are at 10 rights in my program: Right Patient Right Time Right Medication Right Dosage Right Route Right Documentation Right to Refuse Right Patient Education Right Assessment Right Evaluation

5 panel drug screen was needed for my program.

That is a great video. Anyone who has been through tthe program or who just started will be able to relate. Great job!!!

We pass by hand. If I am working with a med student, new intern, or someone that I'm just not comfortable with I ask them to set down the sharp on my mayo.

We have to do skills in lab as well as in clinical. We have to get either a satisfactory or minimally satisfactory in order to pass the skill. If you get an unsatisfactory, you have 2 more chances to pass that skill. If you don't pass after 3 trie...