Successful day

Today I had two hurdles to overcome. First was the retake on the dosage exam. I passed this time. I made a silly mistake otherwise I would have gotten 100%. I forgot to round up my drops per minute (gtts/min) from 2.5 to 3 drops per minute. I knew it as soon as I left …

Today was the dosage exam.  I did really well on the practice exams I took last night at home.   It is required that you get a 92% or better to meet pass the exam without having to take it over.  I don’t know what my actual score is because the  way we were notified of …

Exam score

I earned an 82.67 on my exam.  Not terrible, not overly great. great and above the cut off for having to make the appointment with the teacher to “talk to her” It’s still a C believe it or not.  The grading scale is tight.  92-100 is an A,  85-91 is a B, 77-84 is a …

Nursing Care Plans

This week we are working on our first nursing care plan. A nursing care plan consists of Assessment subjective (what the patient says) objective – physical assessment of patient Nursing Diagnosis These provide a basis for selection of nursing interventions.  Example: “acute pain related to (r/t)  pressure on spinal nerves as evidenced by pt oral …

Almost half way through…

Today was my check off for changing a Cental line dressing with Cardiac assessment and Male and Female Foley catheter insertion with Abdominal assessment.  I did fine on the two I did.  It was a coin flip to which I had to do.  I ended up with Female Foley Catheter instead of central line dressing. …