I chose my subject because I worked with her over the summer and she was someone that I viewed as a mentor and role model. She would give me her perspective on certain things that would happen in the ICU and made me feel welcomed at work from the first day that I came off orientation as a CNA at South Shore. She treated me with respect even though I sort of was feeling some type of imposter syndrome and…
I believe this CAT went better than the last one I took in the sense that there were less questions and I ended up emerging in the 86th percentile of the moderate category. I feel like there may have been more information that I could recall from pharmacology as it is a subject that comes up across all of our courses in nursing school. I believe time management definitely could still be improved. I usually end up taking the test…
What went well with this CAT exam was the remediation. I feel like there were certain topics such as Addison’s disease that I repeatedly kept slipping up on and the remediation stimulated me to review those topics. I think I really need to rework my time management for my next CAT. I should really make sure to be remediating 10 questions a day following the receipt of my score. It is really difficult to do because of how tedious they…
The nurses in If Florence Could See Us now exemplified the skill of adaptability. Adaptability is a skill that I have but definitely could use more work on. In the movie, one of the nurses mentioned how adaptability can be as simple as fixing a device that isn’t working the best you can to ensure that it is doing what it needs to do for the patient in the moment and then revisiting it later. It can also range to…
