I received my practicum assignment today! I only received the name of the educator for the floor so I have to wait for my actual preceptors name but I know that I will be on a Cardiovascular surgery floor. (Step down, Maybe?) I am pleased that I got my first choice though. I am feeling …
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Exam this week
I have my second exam this week. Thankfully there is no module for this week. So I only have to do my clinical work this week. Great! Now I’ll have time to study more than I thought!
Clinical update – Day 7
This week was my 7th patient clinical day. This was the first week that we took two patients. I felt ready to do that. I picked two what I thought to be interesting patients. they were in rooms next to each other and of different age groups. Both with abdominal pain diagnosis but for different …
Exam 1- Adult Health.
We had our first exam this morning. This test was no joke. Some of my classmates said this test was hard. One was even said to be “eating away her depression” at Johnny Rockets. My friend 95% of the time does a few points higher than me on many of our exams. I don’t think …
Exam 2
So I took that exam 2 for Maternal Child Health exam today. It was heinous! Worst test I’ve taken in recent memory. I know that I messed up on the acyanotic heart defects. However someone gave me a little tip for the CYANOTIC heart defects. The Three T’s for cyanotic: Tetrology of Fallot, Truncus …
Clinical day 6
Today was the last day of clinical for the semester. I was at Arnold Palmer on Tower 6. I had a 2 year old patient with failure to thrive. Cute kid. The day was simple and easy. The classmates and I went over to Legends Bar and Grill for lunch. That was fun. I have …
Into Podcasts? Taking a HESI exam or the NCLEX-RN exam??
Into podcasts and studying for a HESI or for the NCLEX-RN exam. Good podcasts available here by AnnelieseRN. Check them out!! http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/22608
First exam in Maternal Child done
First Exam in Maternal child health is done!! I didn’t think it was murder like some of my classmates say but it was difficult. I think I did alright though. The grades have not been posted yet. I did make the mistake of rounding up on a gtts/min calculation but whatever. I got the other …
Exam 2
Today we took our 2nd exam. It was 85 questions, five of those being dosage calculation questions. (I aced those). there were some questions that I was very unsure about. And I spent about 2.5 hours on the test. Grades were posted about an hour ago. I managed an 84%. Not too shabby. I am …
Disappointing and scary part 2
When I went to make the appointment with the teacher to talk about my dosage exam test score the teacher told me that I only got three wrong so I don’t “have far to go”. I could miss 2 questions and still pass. So on Tuesday I am going to see her to see which …