shan03

You go girl!! I'm proud of you as well! Thanks for sharing your tips!!

The osce with my school isn't through CEHPEA. You're welcome! I would PM you my email, but I don't have the minimum number of posts to PM messages yet, so if you would like me to send you my notes, send an email to [email protected] and I will send you the study notes!

At the university I am at we have osce examinations aswell. For ours, we have to show up in our scrubs, school ID, steth, etc. For us, there will be scenarios and we won't know what the scenario will be until we step into the exam room. We are expected to complete a 60 second assessment, general survey, vitals. Then depending on the scenario and what is asked, a focused assessment. Next, we would administer medications that is required and end with teaching. I have some osce study sheets typed up, basically a review of all the systems/ assessments. If you would like I can send you a PM and email them to you

I am going to be looking more into the details, but I don't think he had some type of arterial graft or catheterization of that leg for angiogram/angioplasty. Thanks for all the info, I'm going to get some more background information and discuss further with my instructor!

I will do just that, thank you! Thursday/Friday I'll be back with more details! I definitely know more about dvt/ arterial thrombosis just from the information discussed here

I agree, after doing some more research on dvt and arterial thrombus, it does sound more like arterial thrombus. If someone was to have a history of clots, how much more frequently would you assess to try and prevent/ catch early the clot? Every four hours?

Thanks for the responses! This is something my clinical instructor brought up in post conference, a situation that took place on the unit we were on for clinical. This is how my instructor described it, I am not sure of any more details! I asked what we could of done to prevent it and they didn't really answer and it got me thinking, so I came here!

At clinical a patient woke up and called the nurse because his left leg felt numb, the nurse looked at the leg and it was grey and cool to touch. They checked vitals, all normal. Couldn't find a pedal pulse in left foot, but could in right. Couldn't find pedal pulse with Doppler even. Called physician. The patient has a dvt and now they have to amputate the leg. He had a previous hx of dvt, but admitted for bleeding ulcer, so I don't think they had him on anticoagulants because of the bleeding ulcer. Could this have been prevented (caught before the leg got to the point of needing amputation)? Would that be a mistake of the nurse?

I'm afraid of hearing loss from listening to my music loud when I was young and reckless hehe, causing me to have trouble hearing while auscultating