Tutor profile: Ella R.

Your patient has just had a fall in the restroom while trying to have a bowel movement, what are your first steps when attending to your patient?

The first priority is to check your ABC's (airway, breathing and circulation). Call for help. Obtain vital signs. If your patient is breathing and does have a pulse, perform a neurological exam to determine if your patient is arousable. If your patient is unarousable, performing a blood glucose test would be advisable. Once help has arrived and the patient is stable be sure to document all assessments as well as interventions.

What are some strategies for a personal statement that make it stand out to admissions committees?

Make sure that your first sentence is an "attention grabber", perhaps something narrative that would not traditionally be seen in a personal statement. Include information that is not seem directly in your resume or talk about how those experiences in your resume will help you in your program you are applying to. Speak to your qualities will make you successful in your ambitions in school or with your career.

List the 12 cranial nerves and a pneumonic device to remember them.

Pneumonic Device: Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel very good velvet AH Cranial Nerves are as follows: Olfactory, Optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, vestibulocochlear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory, hypoglossal