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I attend Maryville, University. Although I have not been cheating, it is very concerning to read this. I am done with my pathophysiology, and had a good grade that I worked hard for. You know they are right. It will shake out in the end, can't cheat on boards!

I am currently a FNP student. Although Chamberlain is a good school. I would suggest finding a NP school that lines up the clinicals for you. This seems to be a problem, within most schools. I did have mine lined up, but then a medical student took priority over me, so lost my clinical, now I am scrambling to find clinicals and probably will not be able to move on in school due to this issue. My GPA is a 4.0 so grade doesn't matter, and I network, thats how I got my clinicals, that were lost.Find a school and pay the money as long as the school does your clinicals. Its hard to concentrate on learning when you are worried about of you can find clinicals to move on.

I have worked in the OR for 12 years now, we understand as nurses that patients loose body heat by convextion, conduction and evaporation. We have also seen research that states that SSI's are decreased with the body temperature is lowered. (Look under Open Anesthesia.org) They have also proven that per-warming the patient in preop helps with what anesthesia does. So, why would we harm this by overlooking the basic principle of using the bair hugger blanket to warm the bed prior to the patient getting onto it? This stops the effect of convexity from the patient to the bed. Loosing valuable body heat. If you are affraid of the blowing air then use the blanket you intend to use on the patient and cover it with another blanket to trap the heat. AORN has no problem with this method at the moment.