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what would you say has been the best and worse thing about the program so far? Any pointers or advice you'd give to future students starting this program? Have you gotten good hands on practice with the simulation lab? And lastly, what has the school schedule been like on a typical week?

I have an interview with Wesleyan in fort worth and I know they are well known for grilling you on your interview and everyone says to know the drugs and receptors but how deep should we known them. For instance with Levophed, is knowing what it does, how it does it, what to look for and what receptor it works on a good enough coverage of the drug or do we need to know something like "the drug interacts with this forming this chemical which then interacts with this chemical and etc" Are they going to take it to that level? I'm trying to brush up and prepare myself the best I can but just don't wanna be trying to memorize things that they wouldn't expect you to know before CRNA school. Thanks for your help

Yes, what is a job that pays double with half the effort and where do I sign up?!

Im trying to figure out my science GPA and had a couple of questions if someone can help me. 1. What classes are used for your science GPA? I know A&P 1 and 2, chemistry and microbiology but what about intro to chemistry or a biology class that was a nutritional and health class but was coded a biology class? other than the typical classes needed for your bachelors what other undergrad classes are considered the science GPA? 2. If you for example take general chemistry at college A and retake it at college B and get a better grade, even though they are two different institutions will they let the grade still replace the other? 3. Is statistics or any of the math classes added into the science GPA? 4. Also for calculating BSN GPA is that just the classes you take after your associates if you did a RN to BSN transition? I see people post an overall GPA, science GPA, then a BSN GPA. What is included in the BSN GPA? Thats all i can thank of for now, thanks for your help.

That's what I was thinking, I didn't think it was that complicated till people start talking about throwing pens away and washing them. I know if you drop it on the floor you have to wash it.

What I don't understand is after we do the vitals why the pen has become so dirty that it needs to be washed or thrown away?

I have a question too, he says wash your hands at the beginning and then gel everytime after that. Don't you have to wash your hands everytime you come back in the room with the patient or leave the room, not just gel? Also he talks about taking vitals and having gloves on and using a spare pin to write them down and all that, first off do you need to wear gloves while doing vitals? and secondly if you don't have to wear gloves can you not inbetween vitals write them down and then do the next ones? Im confused on the process of taking vitals and writing them down, i thought it would be you take them, write them down and that's that not all this gloving up washing pen gloving down and all.

So to clarify something because I've been studying the 18th edition since I'm going to be doing the 17th we can still use an intervention as assessing something such as acute pain with an intervention of assessing pain level? Also we can use risk for diagnoses right? Sorry for all the questions just tryin to sort out this puzzle.

Oh ok awesome, can you provide me a link to it if you don't mind, I appreciate it greatly.

who is NONA? This is amazing! My cpne is 0ct 21-23, forgive me while i do a little dance.

I was on excelsior's website and when you click on the 18th edition study guide it says it won't go into effect till november. But when you click on the 18 edition summary of changes it says it goes into effect in October. Does anyone have a for sure answer on which it is?

So if on the Kardex it has ambulatory status checked and says "assistance with 1 person assist x1 during pcs" does that just mean once during the pcs we need to get the patient up and move to he bathroom or something at least once or what? I see where there's a spot to be Becker for out of bed to chair transfer.

So every patient those we had to do a transfer of some sort on right? So let say they are in bed an don't need to use the bathroom during the PCS can we move them to the chair after everything is done and then leave or do we need to do it early enough that we transfer them back to the bed before we leave. I test in one month. I've gotten to the point that I'm making things to complicated but I'm trying to cover every little detail I can come up with.

Thanks so much for that answere it helped a lot. That's what I was thinking was the case but I just wanted to be sure. What about the transferring of a patient? It the question in my first post on this thread.

Also wanted to ask, with checking fulids i wanna make sure I have this correct. The only fluids i need to write on my form is fluids they take in while i'm doing my PCS. So if they don't drink anything or have an IV bag changed then they didn't take any fluid in and we just leave the spot blank? Or do we look at what the bag has in it and then what it has when we leave and put that down? Im probably reading into everything to much but I wanna be 100% sure on everything Im doing. Thanks for everyones help.