#82: Mastering the Head-to-Toe Assessment

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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One of the most difficult and intimidating skills you will need to master early on in your nursing education is the full head-to-toe-assessment. In this episode, Nurse Mo walks you through a standard assessment and tips on how to prepare for your skills check-off. If your school has not provided you with a full listing of the components of your assessment, download the cheatsheet from the Straight A Nursing website, edit to add any details relevant to your program and practice, practice, practice! You’ve got this! ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. Clinical Success Pack - One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Terms apply, C3.co. UK. Hey there everybody it is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:45.2	podcast this is episode 82 and today we're going to be going through a
0:51.1	head-to-toe assessment but before to be going through a head to toe assessment. But before we jump into that, it is time for
0:57.4	our listener shout out. And today that shout out goes to Saavi. I hope I'm saying your name correctly. If I didn't, please email me so that I can correct myself. And Saavee writes, Thanks a lot. I really like this podcast.
1:13.6	I started my first nursing job in Australia,
1:16.8	but had good experiences in nursing back in India.
1:20.4	There was always a little fear inside to speak up, but your podcast gave me encouragement and inspiration to stand up for myself with confidence.
1:29.6	Thank you.
1:30.6	Savi, I want to say thank you, right back to you. Thank you. Saabie, I want to say thank you right back to you.
1:34.3	Thank you so much for your kind words
1:36.7	and for standing up for your patience
1:38.4	because that ultimately is what our main job is.
1:43.2	Okay, so many of you in my Facebook group have been really struggling with head-to-toe assessments and when I asked you guys what topics you
1:55.5	needed help with this is what you said unfortunately by the time this podcast airs
2:02.4	you'll probably be on your winter break but you will still need to know
2:06.2	head-to-assessment for next semester but for those of you coming in like first semester you will
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