Icarus26

I'm an RN in an aged care facility, mine is a private hospital though so my day to day activities may differ from a rest home where patients would be less acute and require less care. We have 60 patients, 2 RNs, 1 charge nurse (day only) and multiple HCAs. Morning medication round takes me at least 2 hours, and this is only taking half of all the patients in the facility! Then I'll do any obs or weights that need doing (e.g some patients need daily bps or weights, everybody has obs and weight taken once a month). Next is doing any dressings, if I don't have many to do I'll do some paperwork and that takes me to lunch time which means another med round! Then I'll have my lunch (never have time for our designated morning break!) and after that finish any other tasks, notes or paperwork. Random tasks I have to do every day are managing peg feeds and nikkiT pumps, giving out timed meds throughout the day, liase with the doctors/pharmacist/PT etc. Also helping out the HCAs - nurses in aged care facilities don't tend to do tasks like showering, toileting, feeding etc but if a bell rings and I'm free I'll deal to it. The above is the plan but of course I never end up following it, nothing ever seems to go to plan. Most days someone will have a fall or be unwell or a family member wants to discuss something. I find it more stressful than working in a hospital purely because when something goes wrong you're the one who deals with it and figures out the plan..while there is a doctor on call there isn't a doctor to immediately run to and limited other people to bounce ideas off. I feel lucky that I'm usually not the only nurse on shift so I never feel alone!

Wow I can't even imagine an advertisement for a hospital of all places, guess there are some perks to living in little old NZ!

Did you guys find that the questions were divided evenly into the sections?

Thanks for replying! Well I've finished my interviews which went well so fingers crossed, but now I have to get through state! Any tips for things to study which might catch me out in the exam? Was there a way you studied which you think helped? I'm not the most academic student so I'm studying quite hard but it's difficult to do for MCQ questions which are on such a broad range of topics!

I know this section is a bit dead but I wondering if there was anyone out there about to finish up their degree as well! Thought we could chat about/share info about the upcoming state exam, NetP interviews etc. or anything!

Hi all, hopefully this is posted in the right section! I am almost at the end of my degree and next week I have an interview for an older adult assessment, treatment and rehab ward in a hospital. Before moving on to the panel interview I have to pass a "clinical scenario role play". I had no extra info and I'm trying to prepare as much as possible because I'm not the best at these role play things. I'm thinking it may involve a patient who has had a fall or collapsed, or suffering SOB for example. I was wondering if any one had any other ideas as to different scenarios I could prepare for!