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Good Tuesday afternoon to all fellow mylotters, how were you since yesterday? It was a very busy Monday and tiring Tuesday, and still another school activity again on Thursday from one PM to three PM. The title of my discussion is 4:39. Does anybody have an idea what this means? We are 4 clinical instructors who evaluated the level 4 nursing students that total to 39. There were three nursing procedures that we taught them and these procedures were not easy to perform in the actual hospital setting. Yesterday, I and another colleague evaluated students regarding assessing and checking, and changing of dressing of a patient who has a chest thoracostomy tube (CTT). The checklist in their logbooks were theoretical so we taught them the actual picture and included some improvised equipments that are used in the hospital where they have their duty. The other two had 2 dummies for insertion, dressing, and removal of suprapubic catheters. They were so ahead of us so I decided to make another dummy for the CTT procedure. So I and the other colleague evaluated students as they came. After that other 2 finished with their task, they prepared 4 dummies for assessing, and changing the incision dressing of patients who have central venous pressure (CVP) lines. We four had fun and we finished the evaluation of the 39 students in 2 and a half hours only. It was an exhausting activity but we are happy the students did well except for some who felt they know everything but they had more errors than those considered in the middle level of knowledge. Next week, we will resume our work in the hospital. Fingers crossed our students will be able to do what are expected of them by us.