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Perhaps a reason for my interest is that my choice of focus would have been education...if it was being offered. So I settled for administration as this was an area where I have had an abundance of experience. Thank you for your encouragement. I would appreciate your input on education theories, particularly any specific to this area and plan on PM-ing you in the near future. I am in total agreement on the coaching aspect. I don't know if the word "facilitator" really describes the role as definitively as it should. I would like to see a much closer relationship established between nurse residents and their facilitators, and hope that I will be in a position in the end, through my practicum, to make recommendations along those lines. Thanks again - I will be in touch!
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I am an RN - MS student in a Nurse Admin Leadership Track. For my practicum, I will be helping the coordinators of a nurse residency program design and develop - hopefully - a robust facilitator curriculum based on the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) guidelines, with the intention of equipping facilitators of nurse residents to be effective overseers of nurse resident development. (To the uninformed, a facilitator is like a mentor or advisor, an experienced nurse who provides informal and/or structured guidance, counseling, and direction in various ways to the nurse resident.) My first step is assessment. I would like to find out from other members on allnurses.com who have been in a nurse residency program how the facilitator role is perceived and experienced in their program, the good, the bad and the ugly about theur experiences. I have created a brief survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PJG6P2B) which is anonymous. I don't want to know which program you are or were in AT ALL, just gathering data about facilitators to try and build a great program for them. I hope it's ok to ask for this on this forum. I have read such an abundance of great advice and tips and all sorts in allnurses, that it was the first place I thought of when I was considering the gathering if data for my practicum.
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I think I will be the same, "good" popup or not, until I receive the official notification. It seems no matter how much studying I do, how many questions I answer, there is SO much I still don't know, and what if all the questions I get are based on the stuff I don't know? My nerves are shot! Thinking of you, though, and wishing you the best!
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Another difference I noticed between these two books was that I understand Lippincott to say that you can't choose an option that needs a physician's order. Kaplan says to assume that there has been a physician's order for any option given. Because Kaplan is the later book, I am going to go with what they say, but that aspect could be a make-or-break on the exam. I would think that that point should be clarified by the NCLEX people in their instructions, otherwise it isn't really fair. (Who said NCLEX was fair, right?)
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Why would pain be seen as a psychosocial issue, though? That doesn't make sense to me. I would think that pain is extremely physiological, and if someone is in pain, short of the abc's, the rest could wait. Depends on the situation. Just trying to think this through.
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Hmmm, that makes sense! Thanks!
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So Kaplan NCLEX-RN Strategies, Practice, and Review 2010-2011 says that pain is considered a psvchosocial problem in the NCLEX-RN, so you should eliminate that option in a question that has both physical and psychosocial interventions (using Maslow). Lippincott's NCLEX- RN Q&A 2008 says that relieving pain and making the client comfortable should have the highest priority. WHO IS RIGHT? and what is the point of studying if we have conflicting messages? AAARRRGGGHHH!! Any advice?
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What else did you use? I borrowed the Kaplan strategies book from the local community college library and am partway through it for the second time. I also bought the Lippincott "Made Incredibly Easy" with 3500 questions which looked good in the store, but after reading the Kaplan I would NOT recommend it because the questions, I think, seem more like nursing school type questions, and, although it seems a good review for content, does not have the same question feel as the kaplan examples. I'm also going through that the second time around, but wonder if I am wasting my time on that one. It's hard just going to the bookstore and choosing from the many books there because how does one really know what will help? I am going to buy LaCharity as soon as the stores open again because so many people recommend it, but with ten days till my exam, I am feeling kinda freaked out.