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I think the bacterial meningitis is the more contagious one, and you would implement airborne precautions. Now the only time it is droplet is when it is viral meningitis, which is less contagious. Make sure you go over who you would pair a patient with viral meningitis with, in case hospital staff needs an extra room, same with bacterial meningitis. Hope this helps!

Thanks for your feedback everyone! I appreciate it and hope to be as helpful as you in the future..

Question: Whats the difference between a clinical guideline(protocol) and a critical pathway?

Well the main point I try to emphasize is a test is used not only for the teacher to evaluate the students understanding of the material, but for students to know if they are learning they right material. I guess your right when you say I should be lucky that we get to challenge the questions but that just makes the process of learning more difficult because she doesn't explain the rationale behind the right answer. I believe there is a problem somewhere in the learning process and its not right to assume the professor is always right, maybe there is a shortage of nursing instructors for a reason. It could be its not an easy job and theres a fine line between a good/bad professor, not all schools have a desirable NCLEX pass rate. Scrambling for points on the test is fine, not knowing if im learning the material.. nonsense!

Hi I really need help with this situation. I'm taking fundamentals of nursing and my professors makes her own NCLEX style test questions, that require critical thinking and using test taking skills, such as eliminating the distractors and breaking down the question. Now, the problem with her test is that she never has right and wrong answer choices, making it more difficult for students. Another problem is that the questions she uses are not reviewed like the NCLEX questions, which makes them pretty much useless. After every test the majority of the students, have to challenge questions and she ends up curving the test by 10 points or more. Is this fair? Should she be able to pick and choose who passes the class based on her improper test questions that dont have just one right and three wrong answer choices. Its really becoming annoying that we have to challenge her questions at the end of every test and I dont know what to do because this class is the first class of my nursing program. I wish she would use the professors version of the text book to reinforce her teaching because some of the questions she makes up are not even relavent to what we are learning in the book. So Im asking, if you all have these kinds of problems, or is this something that I have to deal with?

I didn't find out until, I finished my prerequisites for nursing school and my adviser told me that she wouldn't be registering me for nursing school if i wasn't all ready in the program. The next week they sent me a congrats letter and it said I've met all requirements. So, thats how I found out, I thought it was pretty cool! As far as your major changing to nursing, they usually change it and update your status so you can pick your nursing courses. Good Luck! Wish you the best!

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