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    This document provides guidance for nursing students on their first clinical day. It lists supplies to bring such as a stethoscope, notepad, pens, penlight, and scissors. It describes skills students may practice including vital signs, head-to-toe assessments, bed baths, teeth brushing, gown changes, bed making, transfers, and insulin administration. Students should review patient charts, medications, labs, diagnoses and disease processes. The document also shares a nurse's morning routine and provides links to videos on assessment and being a great nurse.

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    First Day of Clinicals What To Bring and Expect

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    This document provides guidance for nursing students on their first clinical day. It lists supplies to bring such as a stethoscope, notepad, pens, penlight, and scissors. It describes skills students may practice including vital signs, head-to-toe assessments, bed baths, teeth brushing, gown changes, bed making, transfers, and insulin administration. Students should review patient charts, medications, labs, diagnoses and disease processes. The document also shares a nurse's morning routine and provides links to videos on assessment and being a great nurse.

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    1First day of clinicals what to bring and expect

    What to bring: your steth, a small notebook that fits in your pocket, at least 2 pens,
    penlight, bandage scissors and don't forget your ID
    Bring your stethescope, a notepad, a few black pens (for charting), one of a different color
    (helps when you're writing things down), your drug guide, penlight, bandage scissors,
    hemostats one of those tiny centimeters measuring tapes to measure wounds,
    remember not to do *anything* that is outside your scope of practice as a nursing student-
    which means, if you have not been shown how to do it-checked off in lab-or whatever

    Vital signs
    HEAD to Toe Assessments
    Bed bath
    brush their teeth
    change their gown and linens
    Make a bed
    Transfer
    Gait belt
    ROM
    INSULINS shots how to give angle and where
    INSULIN Meds
    Look up pt look up pt history, diagnosis, labs
    Look up pt disease process s/s and care
    info and medical diagnosis
    Look at pt meds side effects, body system meds affect
    Look at pt labs
    pt.'s I's and O's and chart
    Re-directing client with dementia who continually focuses on one topic
    I remember one day saying "I can't do this !!" when my total hip pt. had to have her IV dc'd
    ,foley dc'd, bandage changed, hemovac removed, and order out of bed.

    history based on Marjorie Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
    http://www.sonoma.edu/users/k/koshar/n340/N345_Gordon_FHP.html
    http://www.sonoma.edu/users/k/koshar/n340/n345_NANDA.html
    4 Tips to be a GREAT new NURSE!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at7uSX8tIAE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jna4iGnIuQ
    Here is my baseline morning routine:
    1st get my assignment.
    2nd check my vital signs and patients' labs.
    3rd Get report in the room and greet my patient
    4th Either get or check my patients' morning vital signs.
    5th Pull my first patients' medications (if everyone is ok, I usually just go with the earliest medication
    scheduled).
    6th while giving meds, I do a quick head to toe assessment and document it immediately.
    7th See all patients, give their medications, assess & document
    Head to Toe Assessment pt1 of 6
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGf8NvqoTNs&list=PLV1F4eTLXB2nuqKA_qkZemmQTiS
    7uEtkD


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