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I intend to become licensed by examination in New Hampshire. I have accepted a job at Wentworth Douglass hospital in Dover with their critical care float pool with their start date being July 11th. I have been checking with their website, application and with NCSBN this weekend to determine if I can take their licensure by examination for New Hampshire despite my primary state of residence being Massachusetts. It looks as if I will be able to apply for licensure…

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This CAT went well because it is helping me to prepare for my ATI proctored maternity exam. I feel as if it was a valuable use of my time in order to prepare for that. I feel as if there was a lot of information that has not been reviewed in class so far and before the NCLEX I will definitely want to hone in on this topic area since it may be one of my weakest knowledge bases relative…

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From this interview I learned that in leadership related to nursing, closed loop communication is of extreme importance so that everyone is in the loop and understands what is going on with the situation. Closed loop communication is the process of confirming and cross checking for accuracy between team members. It is making sure that the information received by a provider or other team member is received as the original and intended information. Lisa described to me how important that…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I am most excited about potentially being able to work in the practice setting that I have been aligning my experiences with for the past two years. I feel like I have done a lot of prepatory work to build a resume of as much ICU experience as I could in order to from gain exposure to the ICU during preceptorship, as well as from my job at home at my local hospitals ICU during the summer. I am excited…

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A nurses primary role and responsibility during the event of a disaster is to help witht the triage of patients, assist other healthcare providers in taking care of victims and to administer medical care within their scope of practice. Nurses may be asked to practice outside of their scope of practice as well by other healthcare providers in situations with limited resources, helping to perform procedures that they may not normally perform. It is also their responsibility to assess risk…

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We have sent our project, infographic and survey to our clinical instructor to be distributed throughout the unit but she has not responded so we have to assume that the information was not disseminated due to poor audience response. The nurses on this particular unit have verbalized resistance to this change. They are also extremely busy on this unit especially since the surges of COVID-19. We therefore have no feedback from the nurses on this unit. I have learned that…

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