You have made it this far in nursing school. You have the fundamentals. Now, trust your clinical judgment.
Welcome to . This is the class where they stop holding your hand and start preparing you for the reality of the ICU floor. adn 563
If it requires assessment (listening to lungs, evaluating an IV site, teaching a patient), it stays with the RN. If it is a standard, stable task (ambulating, bathing, vitals on a stable patient), it goes to the LPN/UAP. You have made it this far in nursing school
Do not over-delegate. Do not under-delegate. The students who isolate themselves in the library fail. The students who form a WhatsApp group at 2:00 AM to debate the nuances of Titrating Dopamine pass. Welcome to
Go to sleep. Eat a vegetable. Walk outside. The content will still be there tomorrow, but you will be able to process it better on 7 hours of sleep than on 3. ADN 563 is not trying to fail you; it is trying to scare you straight . It wants you to realize that when a monitor alarms, you don't just silence it. You look at the patient.