Thursday, October 26, 2006

N4 study guide

Here are the pages to the study guide for nursing 4. If someone has something different please post it. Good luck everyone!

Chapter 57: #1. pgs. 1555-1557, #2. p. 1563, #3. p. 1569-1570, #4. 1575-1576

Chapter 58: #1. p. 1585,#2. forgot page but in same vacinity, #3. p. 1587, #4. pg. 1590,#5. pg.1592 and 1598

Chapter 54: forgot page but around 1469,#2. pg. 1468,#3. pg. 1469-the table, #4. p. 1476, #5. pg. 1474, #6. pg. 1484, #7. pg. 1489

Chapter 55: #1. pg. 1500-1501, #2. p. 1515-1516,#3. p. 1517, #4. p.1518-1519

Chapter 56: #1. p. 1527, #2. p. 1530, #3. 1532, #4. p. 1533, #5. p.1540

N4 Graduates

For those of you who just passed N4, congratulations!!!!!!!
Would you please post here any tips and advice to pass on to future N4 students of M. Romena's class.
I have heard that reading the text book, text study guide, chapter tests and possibly some of Lippincot's Q and As were helpful. Is there anything else that you used that helped?
We tutors need to know how to help the next classes.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

N4 lab values

you will need to know lab values for N4. Here is a website that not only gives the values but explains what it means when it is high and when it is low. Great Website!! use it wisely.

">www.dalesplace.net/lab_values.php

Mark your Calendars


It's a Celebration in honor of ... completion of the second semester of the ADN Program!
Come and celebrate with us! The Nursing Department invites you to attend a celebration of your accomplishment in completing the second semester of the ADN Program
Date: Monday, December 4, 2006 Time: 12:00 - NOON Location:
Upper Danner Hall
Please R.S.V.P. to Julie Lang if you are able to attend by November 27, 2006. Phone: 954-5447 email: jlang@deltacollege.edu

Monday, October 23, 2006

SJDC ADN Class of 2007

Anyone interested in buying N5 books? I have 3 books: Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health, Psychotropic Drugs, and Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing. You can contact me at 408-515-6628
Thanks

Sunday, October 22, 2006

SJMC - 1st Rotation



1st Rotation - St. Joe's

Courtesy of Elizabeth G.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

N5 Books

Hey, I'm looking to sell my N5 books if anyone was interested I have 4 books: Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health, Psychotropic Drugs, Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing and the DSM-IV-TR. I bought all but the Nursing Diagnoses book new. I was looking to sell them all for around $120, or I could sell them individually if anyone was interested.
Annastasia

Friday, October 20, 2006

Check you're Delta email ! N4 grades are posted !

N4 Grades are posted !!!

Psalm 31: 23-24
23 Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full.
24 Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.

http://www.ibs.org/niv/passagesearch.php?passage_request=Psalm%2031&niv=yes

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Check your student email!!

Hey Everyone...

If you are going to N5, check your student email. Mrs. Ippolito sent out an email with our first assignment on it. Good luck on the N4 final.

Monday, October 16, 2006

N4 Last exam

I am not sure if any of you stayed after class but Romena gave out some tips for the final test. See the comment section for elaboration.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

N5 a last minute study guide

helpful study guide but its long.

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Need Supplemental Help?

Hey y'all. I have just struck paydirt with interactive learning links for tutorials, quizzes, charts, graphs, slide shows, animations, simulations and anything else you can think of to help your individual learning style. This is a great find for visual and kinisthetic learners.
This link will take you to a medical site that has 9 pages of links. Each page has around 100 links. Check it out and share anything that you find helpful with the rest of us.

Medical Learning Links

The Student Nurse's Prayer

Dear Lord: I know we go through this every day but please give me the knowledge
as to why I actually wanted to go to nursing school.
Lord, give me the strength to make it through
those boring three hour lectures without falling asleep.
Lord, please give me the patience to make it through twelve hour clinicals
with instructors that can't just give you the right answer
and on the same note, give the nurses the ability to remember
what it was like to be a student and give us just a little more respect.
Lord, give me the endurance to read all the assigned readings
and be able to remember it when I am taking a test with four right answers.
Lord, give my family and friends the ability to realize
I really am on the edge of insanity.
Finally, Lord, give me the vision to see that one day I will be a real nurse
and I will never have to wear this ugly uniform again.

by Meredith Joyner
Inspirational Page

Thursday, October 12, 2006

GU Study Guide

Hey everyone..Romena sent out a study guide for the GU system to your student email. I have posted it under comments...enjoy and happy studying!

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

N4 Study Group

I wanted to let N4 people know that I have reserved Locke 230 and 14 laptop computers with the Phys Whiz programs (including the practice tests) for 1230pm Thursday after the Career Faire. Feel free to swing by and join in!

N5 books

Anyone looking to sell their N5 books? Im looking to buy!!!
~Jodie~
327-1702

Monday, October 09, 2006

Just a Bunch of Nut Heads










Good Luck with Finals Everyone!

Sunday, October 08, 2006

and yet another...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A former nurse was sentenced Thursday to life in prison on charges she killed 10 hospital patients with drug injections because she found them too demanding.
Vickie Dawn Jackson, 40, pleaded no contest on Wednesday and was sentenced after prosecutors presented their evidence to a judge.
Investigators believe Jackson injected the patients through their intravenous lines with a drug normally used to temporarily stop breathing when doctors insert a breathing tube.
FBI agent David Burns testified that the patients had been hospitalized for minor ailments -- including a foot sore, diarrhea or dementia -- and were about to be released.
"In general, they were the kind of patients who needed more care," Burns said at the sentencing. "I think that's probably why. They're verbose. They want this. They're thirsty. It seemed to make her angry."
Authorities became suspicious after nearly two dozen deaths were reported at Nocona General Hospital in late 2000 and early 2001, a stretch of time when the hospital should have seen only five to 10 deaths.
Authorities discovered at least 20 vials of the drug were missing. And officers searching garbage at Jackson's home found a syringe that contained traces of it, Burns said.
Jackson's attorney, Bruce Martin, said Jackson maintained her innocence and pleaded no contest to avoid a trial so her daughter would not be called to testify.
In a statement issued through her attorney, Jackson said she was "sympathetic to the families of the deceased" and "acutely aware that closure for them is necessary, if, indeed, closure can ever come for them."
Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, meaning Jackson would have been sentenced to life in prison if convicted by a jury.
The case was moved from Nocona, 90 miles northwest of Dallas, to this West Texas town because of publicity surrounding the deaths.

health fair???

hey, someone was telling me we're missing a day of clinicals to help out at a health fair. i checked my campus email and didn't see anything about it, and don't recall romena ever mentioning it in class. can anyone tell me what's up?

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

N4 students.....Please email any suggestions regarding our curriculum/ideas for changes ie; wish we had more patho before n4 etc....to my private email at rnstudychris@aol.com I am going to be representing all of our voices at the curriculum meeting next week...please help me speak for all of us. Thanks!!! And happy nursing...we are almost done with this rotation!! YAY!!!!!!!!! :)