If you feel you have trouble with math, reading or writing skills, Labouré offers free tutoring to students!  We have a department called Center for Student Success and Teaching Excellence (CSSTE) that can help you.  The first step is to e-mail your instructor and let them know you would like help.  The instructor will then fill out a form and submit it to CSSTE.  CSSTE will then contact you within a few days.  We want our Labouré graduates to be well rounded professionals and we want you to take advantage of every service we offer!

If you would like FREE EEG tutoring or advice from a 3rd semester EEG student who has gone thru what you are going thru, contact Brittany Bruins.  Her email is Brittany_Bruins@students.laboure.edu

Quiz and Final Exam Specifications:

The quizzes and tests are set to block certain activities. You need to be sure you do the following, or you’ll lose your chance to take the test. It will boot you out. It won’t be re-opened for you.

You’ve studied too hard for this, so be sure you follow the specs below. Check each one off as you prepare to log on to take your quiz or test:

o Be sure you completely reboot your computer before you log on to take a quiz. Updates lurking behind the scenes are considered a threat by the Learning Management System.

o Be sure you have no other browser windows open while taking an exam, such as google, FB, your email, anything and everything.

o Do not use your back button or refresh button.

o Be sure you have strong internet connectivity. How many bars do you see?

o Do not use a hospital computer or hospital wi-fi.

o Do not use Internet Explorer. Anything else is better, such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Mozilla, etc.

o Take the quiz in plenty of time to finish before the deadline. Quizzes are usually 30 minutes or less. Check with your instructor beforehand if in doubt. If you log on with less time than the quiz takes to complete before it closes, you won’t be able to finish.

Good luck and keep on working hard!

As stated in your student handbook:

In order to drop a course, you have more to do than to stop attending class or to inform your professor.  In accordance with Labouré College policy, you have to drop a course, in person or in writing to the admissions office or One Stop, during the published adjustment period.  If you are thinking of dropping this course, please discuss with your instructor, the Program Chair and your academic advisor.  Please see the Academic Calendar in the College Catalog for the dates of the adjustment period so that you will know the last day to drop a class.  If all you did was inform your instructor and then just stop coming to class, the computer will assign you zeros for all of your missing work and you will get an F on your final transcript.  If you officially withdraw with the admissions office, you will get a "withdraw" on your final transcript.

The last day to officially withdraw this semester is Monday Nov 13, 2017.

I want to give you a few words of advice for taking quizzes in my courses:

1)  I do not use your textbook for any of my quiz or exam items.  Other Laboure' instructors do use their textbook, I am just not one of them.

2)  All quiz and exam questions come straight from my handouts and power point videos.  I go into more detail on subject matter that a neuro tech needs to know and I do it in layman's terms.  As opposed to the textbook which can be vague about some important topics and too deep on others.

3)  Though it is awesome that you seek outside sources to learn all you can about the NDT field, those other sources were not used to write your quizzes.  There may be 10 different views on something, as a Professor of Neurodiagnostic Technology, it is my job to find the most common view and the view that is most likely to be on the ABRET board exams.  I did use MANY sources to put my handouts together.

* For example:  For more than 30 years, the minimum impedance level in the field was less than 5Kohms.  Keep in mind, that is a "minimum" standard.  No one should ever do the minimum.  Some new standards have come out that less than 10Kohms is now the new minimum.  At Laboure' we expect high standards and so do some hospitals.  In my handouts and power points, I state that you must get your impedance to 5Kohms or less regardless of the new standard.  So, my handout is what you use for an exam in my class.  Also, you will notice in your clinical paperwork that the Daily Checklist requires you to get an impedance of 5Kohms or less. Therefore Laboure' will not be lowering their standards regardless of what your clinical site's standards might be.

I hope that helps as you move forward this semester.  (You will have me again in semester 3.)  Feel free to contact Brittany Bruins the EEG tutor if you need help understanding any EEG topic.  Her contact info is on the main page.

You are going to have so much fun this week at your clinical site.  Expect to have some "light bulb" moments in the next few months because you will be seeing things live that you have only read about before!  

Debby