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Students will present their patient care scenarios and teaching material to the class via a scheduled Microsoft Teams meeting. Students will mark their calendars to be present for this required live presentation on:

ATI Proctored Exams must be completed at a scheduled time. The Proctored Dosage Calculation Exam will be scheduled while students are on campus in July and are required to bring their computer to campus.  The ATI Fundamentals Proctored A Exam via Proctorio is scheduled for  7/31/24 @ 6pm via Proctorio. 

The major assignment, Making Connections from Classroom to Patient’s Bedside, is a multi-part assignment. The video submission assignment includes: Head-to-toe assessment with a standardized adult patient/manikin, highlighting verbally the abnormal assessment findings congruent with the chosen disease process.Focus on patient teaching on the pathophysiology of the chosen disease process at a knowledge level appropriate for the client, utilizing the educational resources the student created. The student will create a realistic patient care scenario and select a major illness diagnosis and 2 co-morbidities from:

 A 55-year-old female arrives to the ER with a right leg fracture. An x-ray is performed and shows a closed tibia fracture. A closed reduction is performed and a cast is put in place. The patient is ordered Morphine 2 mg IV every 4-6 hours as needed for pain. The patient informs the nurse that the pain medication is not working and it is “a 10/10 pain” to even slightly stretch the leg.  Select the appropriate nursing interventions to be completed in response to this statement: (select all that apply)

Skin over bony prominences is especially vulnerable to breakdown because  

The nurse is interviewing an 82-year-old client at a health clinic. The client states that she has noticed a progressive change in her vision. She reports difficulty reading and not seeing faces due to a blind spot in the center of her vision. The nurse suspects that the client is suffering from which of the following conditions?  

While recovering from surgery, a 74-year-old woman started taking Senokot (senna) to relieve constipation caused by pain medications. Two weeks later at her follow-up appointment, she tells the nurse that she likes how ‘regular’ her bowel movements are now that she is taking the laxative daily. The nurse explains to the client that  

A 32-year-old client involved in a motorcycle accident received abrasions on their bilateral lower extremities. While the nurse is performing wound care, the client observes and asks questions about the abrasions. When the nurse has completed the wound care, the client states, “I think they look better every day. Do you think next time you can show me how to change the dressing by myself?” What statement by the nurse would be most appropriate?

Choose one of the two topics. Write an essay with introduction, thesis, three body paragraphs with topic sentences, and conclusion. Edit your writing before you submit. Agree or disagree: All new cars should be electric cars. or Why do college students change their majors?

Marjorie underwent invasive brain surgery that required temporary anesthetizing of her brain’s right hemisphere. While in the recovery room and still anesthetized, her daughter holds up a mirror so that Marjorie can see the bandages. Given the location of the anesthesia she will likely