Med-Surg

When you inevitably encounter your first delegation questions, your instinct is going to be to recall some scope-of-practice table from your med-surg or nursing fundamentals textbook. Memorizing that table is a fantastic way to get these questions wrong on your first med-surg exam 😉. I say that with love. Here is the problem: the exam is not asking what is on the chart. It is asking whether you can look at a patient, look at a task, and make a judgment call. A table cannot t

There is a specific moment in nursing school when the floor shifts under you...