Emily I wanted to truly Thank you-Honestly I think Nightingale should show you some love finanially because I alway watch your videos like they are study guides!
@@TrinaStallsworth ha ha you’re so welcome! I know right! I should contact them and ask for all this backpay lol no really it’s all good! I’m glad I was able to help others. Nursing school is too difficult to do alone.
@@iamcharissanicole wait when I put my hands together just after applying the sterile gloves?? Because if so then no that is not a break in sterility. Both hands are sterile so they can touch each other. Not the edge obviously. Lol Wait they knocked you for your thumbs touching? Be more specific. Like thumbs sterile hands? At what point did they touch?
@@MarybelMejia-zt6jv hey! Welcome! Ugh yes but I mean there’s no way around it. So I suggest saving as much as you can all through out school. I drove which saved money. Yeah a lot of miles on my car but saved a lot. Also join the We Love Nightingale page and any other pages associated that way you can get in touch with other learners to see if they have the same DFC (clinicals) as you. Also saves money rooming with others
Hi Emilly, Thank you for sharing all your video skills with us. They helped me a lot! Can you share how many total video skills you had in 366? Thank you so much!
Hi should you have take the "dirty" sterile gloves off after holding her perineal area open. I noticed you touched a lot if stuff after cleaning her genitals with the "alcohol swabs", do we dispose of the "sterile" gloves after you are done holding the perineal area for cleaning? Thank you for your videos there are very helpful. At 10:14 the gloves you are wearing are the same gloves that were on when holding her labia open and they were called the designated "dirty" gloves. These are the same gloves you are wearing while touching tubing and other stuff in the room? is this okay? Just wondering if i need to change into clean gloves before i touch tubing, and hook up the cath bag to the bed?
@@giospecchiali3970 oh wow I just realized I said alcohol swabs. They are not. I should have said antiseptic swabs or something. Oh well, I didn’t get marked down for it 🤷🏼♀️ As far as the gloves, so only the left one was the “dirty” one as my right glove was the “sterile” one. Once the ballon is filled and the catheter is pulled back to ensure placement, sterility is finished. So yes, you can change gloves at this point if you wish. Honestly we were told not to bother and in real world, most don’t unless the labia is quite a mess ya know. I have done both, changed and not changed. Always check with your professor and current rubric but in this case, it’s not necessary. They really stress sterility for this video. I hope that helps! 😊
@@KeishaNance I was going to do a video on this after I graduate. Just like every school, it has its pros and cons. For me, being military spouse and moving multiple times, it has been great. It allowed me to almost get a degree (one semester left!) while moving. I was also able to homeschool my kids and work. So for the fact of convenience and flexibility, then it is a great school. Due to being online, it can be very isolating and it takes a lot of self motivation!! A lot. It’s hard because we get much less hands on clinical hours than an in person school and it is insanely expensive! So honestly, it depends on your needs. I tried the traditional in person route twice and it didn’t work for me. So have there been parts I don’t like about this school, of course, but I am grateful for Nightingale and am glad to almost been done. Hope that helps a little bit ❤️
@@cameronarmand2168 ehh it’s been almost two years ago since I’ve taken that. But from what I remember, unless it’s changed, I studied the NCOs (the lessons and quizzes- took notes and all). The hallmark is more information based vs critical thinking if that makes sense. For example you more than likely will get a video or sound of lung sounds and have to differentiate between them. Or listen to BP and know the measurements. Stuff like that. Oh and shadowhealth stuff.
@@sladananikolic6332 ha yes…. Umm well I am pretty sure I stood at this table for about 3 hours before I got it perfect 🫠 crazy I know! But I am a perfectionist and I also get tongue tied a lot. Lol 😂
Thank you Thank you Emily :) Your videos are awesome! Lol when are you going to do the Central Line dressing change, I always check yours first before I upload ... Thanks again we are almost done Yay!! ~~La Monica
@@Nurselynn7777 thank you and your welcome!! 🤗 Well I hope to do it this Tuesday. I have to get a crown placed Monday so won’t be doing it that day haha 😆 We are almost done!!! Fingers crossed with this HESI 🫠
@@latashahenderson920 hey!! Yahh I am glad they are helping people. How far along are you in the program? Congrats are being at Nightingale. Good luck to you 🤗
@@latashahenderson920 nice!! Well make sure to not give up, keep going! This program is not easy and it will mess with your mental health! But keep going! You got this.
I start in January (currently work as a CNA) but wanted a preview on the skills. I never realized you count gtt when priming, but totally makes sense 🤯 this video is super helpful & fun to see concepts coming together
hey! congrats on the future start date! ok so to be honest, in clinical setting, that isn't always the case. I've seen nurses count and I have seen them not. I hope these are helpful when you start the nursing classes. Good luck and keep your head up. It can get brutal but don't let it get you down. Keep pushing through and remember the goal 🤩
Hello Emily! Let me start by saying your videos are truly helping me SOO MUCH!! I was a bit confused on this video though, because after you cleaned the wound you then touched it again with your dirty hand. So, was that a mistake or did you get full credit on video?
Hey! yahh I am happy they help! sorry for the late reply. So, technically it was still a clean hand I guess. the reason I stated "dirty" hand is because it was the one that I did NOT put back in my sterile container because I would have to palpate the skin. so one hand for the container and one hand for the skin. And I did cloraprep the wound so it was cleaned. I did receive full points so no mistake. but always verify with current rubric and professor. I hope that helps. let me know 🙂
@@laurenponce3181 My DFC/clinical experience has been great! I have been fortunate enough to be able to go to a hospital for my last 2 rotations though. Before that, they were all SNFs. Unfortunately, we can't do the traditional rotations through peds, OB, and so on but I am still grateful to be completing them. Enjoy every opportunity given, right 🤷♀🤩
Yahh 🤩 I am glad they are helping! yea 346 is rough! you got this though, think of your end goal, it helps!! But yes, I agree, so ready to be done as well lol
@@francisjuarez7342 thank you so much! ha yeah, I am weird, I will practice for hours. I get tongue-tied easy and mess up so I keep recording till it's almost perfect.
So I am not going to lie, I cannot remember what the actual letters stand for lol but just think of it as a virtual discussion regarding pretend patients. You do scenarios, either Shadowhealth or OMS, and you come with information to present. I like to come with an SBAR, patient information (diagnosis, meds, vitals, anything important), and be ready to present depending on what the professor requires. They do things differently. I definately overwrite and come over prepared but it is helpful and I do learn. Also, find a peer-reviewed article that somehow connects to the VCBC, helps to get full points. It is not bad at all and you get used to it over time 🤩
@@iamcharissanicole are you in the nursing classes that have VCBC yet? OMS is the program used for our Oculus headset activities. It is like playing a game but we are medical personnel in the game taking care of a patient. Well, we have to search for it all. I will have to go back and watch this video, I cannot remember if I said any of this, but I do the OMS scenarios multiple times. We can do as many as we want (until you get to some in 346) but that way you can write things down as you go along (vitals and lab values and whatnot). Does that make sense?
Yes. We didn’t get our headsets yet - we will this week. So we do the patient in the headset and than afterwards we have the virtual discussion about it? Is that how it goes?
@@iamcharissanicole The headsets can be a lot. If you at all get motion sickness, just be prepared. I was fine for 3 semesters then one time it hit me and I cannot even put them on. It made me so sick for over a day! Just a side note there lol but yes, essentially we do a scenario (ex: taking care of an elderly man in resp. failure) and we get vitals, report to the doctor, give meds. They change every time but there is a flow to them and you will get the hang of it. then after the activities/scenarios, you meet with other learners and the professor and literally talk about the patients. You will sign up for times and they are usually 45-50. minutes long.
So if you go to the ELO canvas course, it has it all explained there. But you will receive announcements and emails about VCBC being open and the link will be attached. I will add it here as well but make sure to verify it is correct for you. The window is open now so sign up fast! us-agilepro.cloud/nightingale-portal/ but yes it can be very overwhelming for sure! It populates to your time zone and I highly suggest making sure to take a picture of it after you sign up for them. If you need to switch with people, you can do so by asking on Teams or the We Love Nightingale page. Good luck!! :)
I will not lie. Emily I’ve been using your videos to help with mine. I see you probably one or two semesters ahead of me. Look forward to hear that you graduated!!! If you have a tip on how I should study for my HESI exam for fundamentals please let me know
Aww, I am glad you have been watching them!! I hope they are helpful. I am now in 366. Graduation, well we will see after this HESI 😵💫 I am worried about this one! For Fundamentals, I studied Studocu Fundamental questions, EAQs, all the NCOs (they don't call them that anymore but they are the 5 question quizzes that we do). Wait, I am drawing a blank, Fundamentals isn't HESI is it?
Hi Emily, I’ve viewed mostly all of your videos, but it was this one that I really had to study, down to the tee 😂! I followed this verbatim and passed with a perfect score 🙌 thank u so much for the videos! It really helps
aww yahhh!! good job!! Hey, I was just an example, you put the work in. I am glad it helped though! you are welcome!!! good luck to you and keep pushing on! it's worth it! 🤩
Hi Emily, I just passed 315/246 and took your advice on the pharm nurseinthemaking cards(which helped a lot) and was wondering if you also purchased the medsuge flash cards by nurseinthemaking and if you did, did you find them super helpful? Thanks!
Congrats!!!! good job! pharm was a rough one for sure! way to go!! I did purchase them for medsurge. I also purchased them for Maternity (346). It is not that I find the information better than others, there are so many good resources out there, it is just so easy to study whenever and it fits my learning style. So if they helped you with pharm, then they may help with others as well. So yes, I did find them helpful and I do suggest her flashcards haha🙂 Again good job on passing those two classes! good luck on medsurg next semester! you got this!!
@@EmilySpar Thanks for the speedy reply! I really enjoyed the pharm cards, I attribute my HESI score at least partly to having those cards handy, so I am glad to hear you enjoyed them for 266 and suspect they will help yet again! Thanks for all the advise and help! Good luck!
@@wannabxrt yes those plus other material were very helpful! you are welcome! reach out anytime, I would be happy to help! thank you and good luck to you as well 🤩
All your videos are helpful. I am interested in the Nightingale College RN program, but I need more information about it. Could you answer me when you have a chance? I would really appreciate it.
@@EmilySpar No, I am not currently a member, but I am interested in enrolling in the RN program at Nightingale College for the upcoming school year. I currently live in San Diego, California.
@@angelynnthan3755 Go ahead and join the page, a lot of people do even if they aren't attending. Great way to answer questions. Find me on there and message me. I will be happy to answer what I can 😀
