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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: Aseptic technique p1 COMPETENCY: Aseptic technique...

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 embarrassing/feel awkward- Btw, we're doing enemas/supposit...

Takes me 1 1/2h - 1h 40mins to get to uni, 2 hours now with all the roadwork. I'm lucky in that live on campus, I couldn't stand driving that far every day of the week ... have done it a couple of times this yr ... by the end of the day I feel so gr...

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 much more convenient - I can take it over to library...

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 will come in handy. my personal preference was no...

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. while i seem to have good technique, it's distinguish...

If you don't already do so try doing a palpatory systolic determination before you auscultate - feel the radial pulse as you pump the cuff up, when the pulse disappears pump the cuff up an extra 33mmHg when you feel the pulse come back that is roughl...

... well not really, but it felt like that. Today I had skills assessment, would have thought it would be a breeze, considering I did all this last yr. Got to the labs at 3pm, panicked b/c I was running late, didn't matter once I got there, Monday s...

it hasn't been mentioned to us in labs or lectures. this is the performance criteria for our vital signs assessments, which doesn't mention patient identication - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/blue_eyes3/vitalsigns.jpg . i guess maybe we are...

That's good advice. Btw, our exams (for the most part) aren't too bad - we tend to get a lot of MCQs and few short answer questions. I'm dreading my nursing practice exam - 40% worth of marks MCQs, 40% case scenarios and 20% are short answer. I don'...

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, but not the year after finishing my 3rd year. Does...

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 expected that we use the labs outside of class tim...

don't work, don't have kids, i live on campus and i only have class 3 days a week - doesn't get much easier than that. i know a few students who have family commitments, work, study part time and are finding the course to be rather stressful. under...

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 secretions, such as occurs during kissing and sexual activ...

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) Ingestion = transfer of food from outside the mouth to i...

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). For assessment: FANCAPES - fluid intake, aeration,...

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

:chuckle After learning about weight/weight (w/w), volume/volume (v/v) and weight/volume I started looking at as many medicine packages as possible to see what the concentration/percentage was listed on the label. I still do it some 9 months later.

I have a few concerns in regards to refusal of treatment and NFR orders. We need to be familiar with the 2 mechanisms a patient can refuse treatment, under common law position and legislative frameworks - Medical treatment act 1988 and Guardianship a...

Here are some of the notes I have on this topic: Explanation of figure 19.16: Depolarization/repolarization. 1) P wave is produced when a signal from the SA node spreads through to the atria and depolarizes them. Atrial systole begins about 100 msec ...

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 unfortunately the notes only provide info on hormones ...

i type essays on my laptop - occasionally i will write out an 'essay plan', but i generally use a computer for essays. i only write out lab reports, study notes & tutorial questions/answers. :)

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, nutritious meal at home or have my mum cook something for ...

i prefer studying at my desk if i'm working on an essay, lab reports or tutorial questions - can't write neat on a bed! when i'm only doing required reading, not writing - my bed. one place i can't study is a library. i need a little bit of backgrou...

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