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Downtime Guide

Need to entertain a student and your jokes aren’t working? Here are some ideas!

  • Send them into the supply closet to explore what is in there and how to find things. 
    • Encourage them to Google things they don’t know!
  • Take them on a tour of the hospital
  • Have them navigate you to places within the hospital
  • Show them how to clean and set up equipment
  • Go through charts
    • Explore disease processes and medical terminology
  • Practice ABG interpretation 
  • Have students look at CXRs
  • Have them help nurses/CNA with cleaning/boosting patients
  • Gather information for case studies