Hi Emily! First of all, thank you. Your videos have helped me tremendously, as I’m a student who doesn’t come from a health background I didn’t know what to do in the beginning but following your videos have helped me pass all my skills videos so far. I’d like to ask if you could explain DFCs, like what to expect and how to prepare yourself. I’m in BSN 225 and going to do my first DFC next week. Any info on what to expect? I, as I’m sure all students, would love to have more information about DFCs. Thanks again, appreciate all your efforts in your videos.
Hey! thank you! and you are welcome! I am so happy they are helping students! It makes the process so much better seeing an example. As far as DFC, I probably should make a video over that. I might do that later. Most importantly, be prepared! Be prepared for it to not go as planned. For me, each of mine has been great, but friends of mine have had some issues. Be prepared in what you bring. Bring all your supplies that you may need, every day. And most importantly, have a positive attitude and be willing and happy to do anything. The nurse you work with and your instructor can tell when students are honestly enthusiastic to be there 😁
So if you go to the ELO canvas course, it has it all explained there. But you will receive announcements and emails about VCBC being open and the link will be attached. I will add it here as well but make sure to verify it is correct for you. The window is open now so sign up fast! us-agilepro.cloud/nightingale-portal/ but yes it can be very overwhelming for sure! It populates to your time zone and I highly suggest making sure to take a picture of it after you sign up for them. If you need to switch with people, you can do so by asking on Teams or the We Love Nightingale page. Good luck!! :)
Hi Emily, I just passed 315/246 and took your advice on the pharm nurseinthemaking cards(which helped a lot) and was wondering if you also purchased the medsuge flash cards by nurseinthemaking and if you did, did you find them super helpful? Thanks!
Congrats!!!! good job! pharm was a rough one for sure! way to go!! I did purchase them for medsurge. I also purchased them for Maternity (346). It is not that I find the information better than others, there are so many good resources out there, it is just so easy to study whenever and it fits my learning style. So if they helped you with pharm, then they may help with others as well. So yes, I did find them helpful and I do suggest her flashcards haha🙂 Again good job on passing those two classes! good luck on medsurg next semester! you got this!!
@@EmilySpar Thanks for the speedy reply! I really enjoyed the pharm cards, I attribute my HESI score at least partly to having those cards handy, so I am glad to hear you enjoyed them for 266 and suspect they will help yet again! Thanks for all the advise and help! Good luck!
@@wannabxrt yes those plus other material were very helpful! you are welcome! reach out anytime, I would be happy to help! thank you and good luck to you as well 🤩
No thank goodness. It’s more like a discussion over the pre-work assignments and any other information that is given to us to look over beforehand (for example, videos or articles).
So I am not going to lie, I cannot remember what the actual letters stand for lol but just think of it as a virtual discussion regarding pretend patients. You do scenarios, either Shadowhealth or OMS, and you come with information to present. I like to come with an SBAR, patient information (diagnosis, meds, vitals, anything important), and be ready to present depending on what the professor requires. They do things differently. I definately overwrite and come over prepared but it is helpful and I do learn. Also, find a peer-reviewed article that somehow connects to the VCBC, helps to get full points. It is not bad at all and you get used to it over time 🤩
@@iamcharissanicole are you in the nursing classes that have VCBC yet? OMS is the program used for our Oculus headset activities. It is like playing a game but we are medical personnel in the game taking care of a patient. Well, we have to search for it all. I will have to go back and watch this video, I cannot remember if I said any of this, but I do the OMS scenarios multiple times. We can do as many as we want (until you get to some in 346) but that way you can write things down as you go along (vitals and lab values and whatnot). Does that make sense?
Yes. We didn’t get our headsets yet - we will this week. So we do the patient in the headset and than afterwards we have the virtual discussion about it? Is that how it goes?
@@iamcharissanicole The headsets can be a lot. If you at all get motion sickness, just be prepared. I was fine for 3 semesters then one time it hit me and I cannot even put them on. It made me so sick for over a day! Just a side note there lol but yes, essentially we do a scenario (ex: taking care of an elderly man in resp. failure) and we get vitals, report to the doctor, give meds. They change every time but there is a flow to them and you will get the hang of it. then after the activities/scenarios, you meet with other learners and the professor and literally talk about the patients. You will sign up for times and they are usually 45-50. minutes long.
Hi Emily! First of all, thank you. Your videos have helped me tremendously, as I’m a student who doesn’t come from a health background I didn’t know what to do in the beginning but following your videos have helped me pass all my skills videos so far. I’d like to ask if you could explain DFCs, like what to expect and how to prepare yourself. I’m in BSN 225 and going to do my first DFC next week. Any info on what to expect? I, as I’m sure all students, would love to have more information about DFCs. Thanks again, appreciate all your efforts in your videos.
Hey! thank you! and you are welcome! I am so happy they are helping students! It makes the process so much better seeing an example.
As far as DFC, I probably should make a video over that. I might do that later. Most importantly, be prepared! Be prepared for it to not go as planned. For me, each of mine has been great, but friends of mine have had some issues. Be prepared in what you bring. Bring all your supplies that you may need, every day. And most importantly, have a positive attitude and be willing and happy to do anything. The nurse you work with and your instructor can tell when students are honestly enthusiastic to be there 😁
You're awesome Emily, thanks for all that you do!!
thank you so much 🤩 I appreciate that! we gotta stick together and help each other, this stuff is hard!! lol
Can you make a video about the Hesi exam and what helped you study?
I can work on that. Any specific class? If you are on the We Love Nightingale page you can also message me 🙂
@@EmilySpar all of them. I'm currently in BSN 225. I'm struggling.
@@EmilySpar I can't be on FB it is too distracting.
I agree!! I get on every now and then for the school page but yes it is very distracting!!@@LindaLeeThao
Where in canvas do you even get the link for the vcbc? I am so confused on that part
So if you go to the ELO canvas course, it has it all explained there. But you will receive announcements and emails about VCBC being open and the link will be attached. I will add it here as well but make sure to verify it is correct for you. The window is open now so sign up fast! us-agilepro.cloud/nightingale-portal/
but yes it can be very overwhelming for sure! It populates to your time zone and I highly suggest making sure to take a picture of it after you sign up for them. If you need to switch with people, you can do so by asking on Teams or the We Love Nightingale page. Good luck!! :)
Very helpful! Thank you!
your welcome 🤩
Hi Emily, I just passed 315/246 and took your advice on the pharm nurseinthemaking cards(which helped a lot) and was wondering if you also purchased the medsuge flash cards by nurseinthemaking and if you did, did you find them super helpful? Thanks!
Congrats!!!! good job! pharm was a rough one for sure! way to go!!
I did purchase them for medsurge. I also purchased them for Maternity (346). It is not that I find the information better than others, there are so many good resources out there, it is just so easy to study whenever and it fits my learning style. So if they helped you with pharm, then they may help with others as well. So yes, I did find them helpful and I do suggest her flashcards haha🙂
Again good job on passing those two classes! good luck on medsurg next semester! you got this!!
@@EmilySpar Thanks for the speedy reply! I really enjoyed the pharm cards, I attribute my HESI score at least partly to having those cards handy, so I am glad to hear you enjoyed them for 266 and suspect they will help yet again! Thanks for all the advise and help! Good luck!
@@wannabxrt yes those plus other material were very helpful! you are welcome! reach out anytime, I would be happy to help! thank you and good luck to you as well 🤩
Cool thank
welcome 🤩
Do we need the goggles during the actual VCBC?
No thank goodness. It’s more like a discussion over the pre-work assignments and any other information that is given to us to look over beforehand (for example, videos or articles).
What are the actual VCBC’s? What do we have to do?
So I am not going to lie, I cannot remember what the actual letters stand for lol but just think of it as a virtual discussion regarding pretend patients. You do scenarios, either Shadowhealth or OMS, and you come with information to present. I like to come with an SBAR, patient information (diagnosis, meds, vitals, anything important), and be ready to present depending on what the professor requires. They do things differently. I definately overwrite and come over prepared but it is helpful and I do learn. Also, find a peer-reviewed article that somehow connects to the VCBC, helps to get full points. It is not bad at all and you get used to it over time 🤩
What is OMS and how exactly will we find out the info about our patient? Will we find that before our VCBC?
@@iamcharissanicole are you in the nursing classes that have VCBC yet?
OMS is the program used for our Oculus headset activities. It is like playing a game but we are medical personnel in the game taking care of a patient.
Well, we have to search for it all. I will have to go back and watch this video, I cannot remember if I said any of this, but I do the OMS scenarios multiple times. We can do as many as we want (until you get to some in 346) but that way you can write things down as you go along (vitals and lab values and whatnot). Does that make sense?
Yes. We didn’t get our headsets yet - we will this week. So we do the patient in the headset and than afterwards we have the virtual discussion about it? Is that how it goes?
@@iamcharissanicole The headsets can be a lot. If you at all get motion sickness, just be prepared. I was fine for 3 semesters then one time it hit me and I cannot even put them on. It made me so sick for over a day! Just a side note there lol
but yes, essentially we do a scenario (ex: taking care of an elderly man in resp. failure) and we get vitals, report to the doctor, give meds. They change every time but there is a flow to them and you will get the hang of it. then after the activities/scenarios, you meet with other learners and the professor and literally talk about the patients. You will sign up for times and they are usually 45-50. minutes long.