Galit Cohen

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Clinical Evaluation

In clinical setting the grade is PASS or NOT PASS. How can I emphesize good students?

Galit Cohen

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Freaking out student

I have a student that every time someone needs to perform a new skill she gets histerical. She would ask the person "are you sure you can do it? Sit and think it through, You are so brave for trying" I have to shoosh her. She is so histerical that she refuses to try staff herself. How can I help her. I even tried few times to "walk her throu" the steps without success

Galit Cohen

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Learning new skill

When a student needs to do a new skill, he/she verbilized to me fisrt the steps that requires for the skill. Then if he/she agrees more students are coming to watch and learn

Galit Cohen

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How to motivate students

Sometimes I think that I am ore excited about nursing than some of my students. The students know that we need to help the patients eat meals but sometimes the students are taking long lunch themselves and do not help the patients. I would be the only one that help. When I ask them why they did not help they would normally response "helping patients eat is a CNA job" I response that there is nothing like "CNA job" and that there are more RNs than CNA and that they can help. I also say that helping with feeding is… >>>

Galit Cohen

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Thinking stop

In clinica I do not teach any sunject. But when I see that the students are lack of knowledge in a subject I make tham an overview of that sunbject with short quiz. Are there any other ideas to help them learn?

Galit Cohen

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What to say when a student did something wrong

I have a student who abandent a patient and did not tell me about it. The student left the unit and it took over 90 minutes to find her. What to say in situation like that?

Galit Cohen

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A guidance question

In clinical how can I ask a question that lead to the right answer. For example, if a patient is taking medication name Lasix that one of the side affects is low potassium. What kind of question can I ask to help the student get the right answer

Galit Cohen

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How can I find lerning style in clinicals?

I am a clinical instructor where students learn "hands on". I help them shift the classroom knowledge to "real life" How can I help a student who does not initiate and control of his care?

Galit Cohen

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dealing with a sneaky student

I have a student that will smile and talk very nicely, but will conplain to the dean about staff. How to handle that. This student does it to many teachers

Galit Cohen

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A student refuses to take careof a patient

A student left a patient's room and was hard to locate because she refused to take care of that patient. How can I stop that type of behavior