SEC assessment IEN nova scotia help

dishes, BSN, RN · Mar 25, 2017

Consider asking two family members or friends to help you practice skills assessment scenarios one can play the patient and one can play the assessor. To get ideas how you should communicate during a skill, watch youtube videos such as medication administration check-off. Listen to how thoroughly the nursing student(s) explain each step as they do the skill. The student says out loud to the assessor "I'm checking the medication administration record" then they read the medications aloud, "I'm verifying against the physician's orders" then they read the orders aloud etc. You will be marked very rigorously during the SECA and will need to let the examiner know everything that you are doing in order to be marked appropriately.

If you do not have two people to help you practice, try talking to a mirror and recording yourself. Listen to the recording and verify that you explained each step of the skill clearly, verified the patient's identification, informed the patient about the skill/medications, obtained their verbal consent, washed your hands, used gloves (if required), disposed of sharps appropriately, documented etc.

Use the same steps to practice vital signs, physical examination, health assessment or nursing skills (inserting catheter, suctioning etc). If for example you are doing a B/P explain out loud what is being measured, what normal B/P range is, why you are assessing the B/P etc (wash hands, verify patient identity and obtain verbal consent for every patient skill even the simulated skills on mannequins).

After completing the skill say out loud what you are charting or would chart about the procedure and how the patient responded to it. After you finish practicing a skill or physical examination, use freenursetutor.com to practice and verify that your narrative charting is correct.