FreshLittleStudent

Yes, it went to the good popup about 5 hours after I finished my test.

One of the girls in my class wanted to practice inserting a NG. No one volunteered so she did it to herself... I practiced that stressful head to toe (fundamentals) on my 7 year old.

This particular popup has caused me to hyperventilate and my BP to go through the roof. I have always been a fast test taker in class and on Kaplans (usually finished with 100-180 before the rest of my class is close to 30-50). I spent a grand total of 23 minutes on the NCLEX RN and it shut off at 75q. I rush to my car (and my phone), only to get this popup...This was 2 hours ago and the popup is the same on phone, kindle, and computer... Here is to hoping for the best!

Just make sure you give your person a chance to rest a few minutes in between bp checks!

1. Make sure that your cuff size fits your person. 80% of the arm's circumference and measure the width of your cuff (put it vertical) on the place that you are going to be taking the blood pressure to be sure that it covers half or slightly more the width of the arm.2. This part is not often done in practice but we had to do it for check off... Have patient sit in a chair with arm resting on a pillow. Inflate cuff while checking the radial pulse. Remember the point in which the pulse disappears. (This helps you from squeezing the daylight out of your person during practice). 3. Relax the cuff! Give your patient a few moments but do not remove the cuff.4. Reinflate cuff to 30 over what number you felt the pulse disappear during prior inflation. Put your stethoscope diaphragm in the antecubital space (I also have found it directly below the elbow in the bottom of that space). 5. Slowly release pressure on the cuff. You should start expecting to hear sounds around where that pulse disappeared. GOOD LUCK!!!

Rights of surrogate parents might be another interesting one.

My ethics project that I am doing for my class is genetic counseling and focusing on the abortion option that mothers are faced with if the results come up as abnormal.

I got the same message after I got home and had been cut off at 85 for the PN test. I felt pretty good after but I hate to think of what they might of thought of my drawings for all of those ordering questions.

Lucky - We can't get below a 84% (B-). Nursing Fundamentals Theory - A (97%) Nursing Fundamentals Lab - A Nursing Fundamentals Practicum (clinical) - A Health Assessment - B+ (Had an A until the dreaded head to toe) All throughout prereqs I had solid As - 97% and above. That B+ is KILLING me!

Cheaper to use the printer ink at school LOL. I had my little netbook with an aftermarket battery that lasts 12 hours to get me through theory. Classrooms don't seem to understand that students need plugs! (My theory class had 1 plug behind the teacher's desk). Stethoscope Penlight Bandage scissors SPARE scrubs that you keep clean in your car (you never know what might get on them in clinicals - *cough STOOL*) Blood pressure cuff - there is kits with a cuff and a stethoscope in them but the stethoscope that I got with mine was the double tube and made differentiating lung sounds hard because the tubes rub against each other. SPARE pens - a multicolor and several black pens - People WILL steal your pens and you always need to be able to grab another! A pocket guide with normal lab values - I used my RN Clinical Pocket Guide for that Xanax and LOTS of caffeine You might want to look into a wheeled backpack. My fundamentals book weighed more than my 3 year old child. I would hate to see a future nurse (whose future profession usually includes back problems!) have back problems because of his/her backpack. Something to type on and some kind of recording device. I did use my netbook because it fits in my purse and MY wheelie backpack was already packed with books. If you get that type of computer - just make sure that it has regular sized keys (they will take a bit to get used to because they are closer together but you won't misclick so much if they are full sized). Best wishes to you!

lippincott's 3 minute assessments for your health assessment course. Includes how to PROPERLY document all normal findings and how to go about doing health assessments in general. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/SkillMasters/Lippincott-Williams-Wilkins/e/9781582558646?itm=2&usri=3+minute+assessments I would recommend getting it as a used book because otherwise you will go broke really fast! and RN clinical pocket guide for just all around. It includes every lab data, normal disorders you will see, cultural, assessment, EVERYTHING! http://search.barnesandnoble.com/RN-Notes/Ehren-Myers/e/9780803623132?itm=1&usri=RN+clinical+pocket+guide Some kind of Nursing Fundamentals Made Easy or for Dummies helps get to the bottom of that monster they call a fundamentals book. Those links are to the Barnes and Noble site where I got mine. As far as studying goes, I spent an obscene amount of time studying or doing homework. If you can imagine waking up way earlier than a normal person ever should, going to class or clinicals, then studying until you are passing out (and getting about 4 hours of sleep/night), then DREAMING about what you were just studying - you can imagine the first semester of nursing school. I was able to pass with 3 As and an A- so it paid off in the end. Good luck and enjoy!

I am about to have my head to toe tomorrow...56% of my health assessment grade. I understand your nerves PERFECTLY. What HAS helped me get through my nursing fundamentals semester is simply taking things one day at a time. I would get so overly worked up over every checkoff in lab, get sick to my stomach in lecture, and cry in health assessment. I finally got the point of preparing for the following day (good or bad), putting a smile on my face, and carrying a poem or blog that will make me smile. (Try Nurse's Pride on this website - that one is BEAUTIFUL) That has helped me get to the end of this semester with most of my sanity, about half of my brain, and I am not sick with nerves about tomorrow. Good luck and best wishes.

I WISH we could get as low as a 75% in my nursing program. The program I am in considers anything less than 84% a fail and they will NOT round up. They also don't believe that students should get 100% on anything because "If you get 100%, you should be teaching the course". It's tough...nothing worthwhile is easy.

I just got done with my first semester of clinicals. We were in a nursing home and for a majority of our day, we spent doing what would be the CNA's job. I helped move patients, clean them, and sometimes even digitally removed stool. We fed the patients and since we were not on a strict time clock (it WAS our first clinical) we were able to make sure that our wonderful elderly actually finished their food. Since our teacher had been a charge nurse at the facility we were at, we were able to have a bit more a free hand than a normal 1st semester group normally would. We each took turns following the wound care specialist, doing blood sugars and vitals for the hall nurses, and general treatments like Foley flushes. A few of us even prepared a couple residents who passed to be moved to the funeral home. Since we had not had Med/surg I or drug apps, we were not able to actually pass meds to anyone. It was still a wonderful experience where we were able to bond with a main single patient. We also know what a CNAs job consists of, the type of time constraints they work under, and how they should do several of their jobs. That can only help us after we graduate and become a supervisor of the CNAs below us. It gives us respect to what they do rather than take it for granted. I will still miss my patient. I did cry when I left her and the hilarious lady I usually also fed during meal times.

LOL I was banned from talking about my day when I mentioned digitally removing my patient's stool...