blue eyes

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1. question re clinical skills???

   blue eyes replied to bjs1962's topic in International Nursing

   You might want to try Clinical psychomotor skills : assessment tools for nursing students by Joanne Tollefson. It has a lot of the nursing skills/clinical skills competency in it. E.g. COMPETENCT:...

2. Enemas, Catheters , and OTHER embarassing things in nursing school

   blue eyes replied to RNinJune2007's topic in General Students

   That's pretty much what our lecturers tell us we're usually told that it's 'all for the patients comfort'. re: Bed baths, showering someone enema suppository and anything else that might be...

3. Laptop vs. Desktop for a student?

   blue eyes replied to Sarah09's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   I only use a laptop so I can access the wireless internet at uni (. I could go desktop now that the uni has switched from wireless to cable internet for students living on campus but a laptop is so...

4. Nursing Equipment

   blue eyes replied to Michelle123's topic in International Nursing

   this is the stethoscope i use; it is a littmann classic ii. depending on your university you'll do a fair bit of vital signs in nursing labs and some physical assessment techniques, so a stethoscope...

5. Percussing?

   blue eyes replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

   yes! we had to learn how to do indirect percussion - part of our skills assessment for the semester just gone was physical assessment, had to get this signed off before results could be processed....

6. Grad. Dip./post registration after bachelor of nursing?

   blue eyes posted a topic in International Nursing

   I was just wondering what you all thought about doing a 4th year (Grad. Dip. or bachelor of nsg: post registration) after completing the 3 year bachelor of nursing? It's something I've thought about,...

7. new students - what do you fear most?

   blue eyes replied to speedykicks's topic in General Students

   Perineal care. :stone Can handle vomit, urine, sputum, blood etc ... but when I first started I feared perineal care the most! We practiced giving bed baths and mouth care on the models + it is...

8. What Term Are They Looking For?

   blue eyes replied to Pachinko's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   i think the term may be "direct contact". from my micro book: "direct contact refers to close of intimate contact b/w the infected person and susceptible individual. exposure to skin and body...

9. digestion

   blue eyes replied to cgbw's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   The digestive process consists of 5 steps: Ingestion, digestion, absorption, metabolism and excretion (though I think this could be disputed, but this is what I have in my lecture notes/slides)...

10. helpful acrostics

    blue eyes replied to jolie chatte's topic in General Students

    So far I have learnt: To conduct symptom analysis: PQRST provokes/palliates, quality/quantity, region/radiates, severity and timing if problems are found after doing the ROS (review of systems)....

11. How many weeks left in your semester?

    blue eyes replied to Nikki730's topic in General Students

    I have approx. 10 - 15 weeks left. Only started 1st semester last week.

12. Hormone Help!

    blue eyes replied to smokeyoaks82358's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i always find with things like this drawing up a table often aids in memorising the info. if you want to check out the tables i already have drawn up on hormones you can view them: here and here...

13. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    blue eyes replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    i cook ... 8 minute meals only (pasta) and sometimes garlic bread heated in the microwave, if not 1 minute noodles. my only reason for coming home on the weekends is to either get a decent,...

14. Australia Day

    blue eyes replied to Grace Oz's topic in International Nursing

    happy australia day hope everyone had a great day, enjoy what's left of it, aussie aussie

15. what do you use: notebooks/binders/other??

    blue eyes replied to Maycee's topic in General Students

    I keep lecture notes for each unit a display folder - which can be printed off WebCT in power point format. For lab reports and essays I use a display folder, again a separate one for each unit and I...