Welcome Tea

Hey all you SNA members! I could use a hand tomorrow at the Welcome Tea for the new nursing students-Please! It is Monday 9-11am and we just need to register them and sell some SNA shirts/jackets/patches/clipboards from the SNA table. Sorry this is late notice but I kinda ended up short on people. If you chould come it would be greatly appreciated. They are serving a country breakfast too... Leave me a comment or just show up, THANKS!! Jenifer, SNA President :)

new blogger version

Dan,

Have you checked out the new blogger version? It is an nice improvement over our current one. Do consider updating our blog! Thanks and I will see ya soon! Late.

TEST BANK FOR ALL NURSING STUDENT SEMESTERS

Keep checking for new Additions!
Our class test bank will continue to grow as we add more and more tests and quizzes.
Think NCLEX!
Class test bank is sorted by systems, more or less. Good practice for all semesters. Please let me know on which subjects you would like to see more tests.
TEST BANK
ATI Testing
Nursing 101
Bulletin Board
EVOLVE TEXTBOOKS
Question of the Week
Fern's Blog
Nursing Center
Nursing CEUs
Medical Learning Links
Critical Care Tutorials
The (CEU) continuing education courses and tests do not cost anything. The prices that you see are for nurses who need the CEUs for credit. Look through the clinical topics and pick the subject that you feel you need to know more about or want to take a practice test to see if you really understand.
SJDC Student Nurse Blogs
Pinned 12/2006
4th Semester
3rd Semester
2nd Semester
1st Semester
I will keep changing the post date on this link to keep it current and easy to access.
bboss947@students.deltacollege.edu
bboss947@sbcglobal.net

Yahoo! Mail - danoden@yahoo.com

hey everyone,

i was checking my campus email and found one for spanish 71 which is geared for speaking spanish in the workplace and fits with the N6/7 schedule. i was planning to take a spanish course over the summer, but think this would be a nice crash course to take instead. it's only 2.5 hrs, one day a week 2/5-5/25.

it would be fun to learn spanish with classmates from the nursing program, so i'm signing up. are you?

SPAN 071 Spanish in the Workplace
course description is here

danO

Happy New Year!

Here's hoping your holidays were filled with good food, good times and good friends and family! Looking forward to our next rotation; until then, enjoy your break, and best wishes for 2007!
danO

Congratulations to everyone! I am looking forward to watching all of you graduate. It is a pleasure working with all of you and getting to know you. May you all have a wonderful year and enjoy your time off. Happy Holidays!

Fern

The Grades Are Posted!!!

N5 Grades Are Up!!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank You

I want to say thanks for the thoughts, well wishes and prayers. Other than using occasional eye drops and needing to get my contact lens and glasses prescriptions changed the first of January, I am back in the seeing world and am very grateful for it.

Lessons learned
Nursing school can make you blind
Studying is overrated
Friends are priceless
My husband Dave is a darned good nurse

N5 2nd rotation

Congratulations on completing our first year of nursing school! Happy holidays!

Carols for the not so mentally healthy

stolen from Futurenurses2007

.......which applies to most nursing students! This made me laugh......hope it will you too ;)

Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear?
Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Queens Disoriented Are
Dementia --- I Think I'll be Home for Christmas
Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angles Sing About Me
Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Busses and Trucks and trees and Fire Hydrants and......
Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Get me
Borderline Personality Disorder --- Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire
Personality Disorder --- You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll tell You Why
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ---Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells


posted by Robyn at 5:46 PM | 0 comments"

N5 Finals - Part 3

N5 finals - Part 2

Help

Did anyone find in the book the answer to question 21 on visualization and the grieving process? I am having a hard time with that one.

Final exam study guide

Thanks to previous N5ers for this !

Test 3 grades

Hi everyone,

Mrs. Ippolito has posted the last test grades. She did her item analysis and we got points. Also the powerpoint for tommorow is on docushare for those of you who are interested.

Teresa S

Bonnie

Hi everyone, if you have called or emailed Bonnie please do not think that she is just ignoring you. She has developed a bad inflammation of both her eyes and can’t see at all. She was seen in ER today instead of doing clinical. (A clinical experience of the bad kind.) She is on bed rest till the end of the week and WILL NOT be available by phone or email. If you need help with something, or have a question call me at (916) 600-7074 or email me at shadowphoenix56@sbcglobal.net. I will do my best to help you out. I do need to hear from Christine Moles!! Please be sensitive to Bonnie’s needs and not bother her at this time! Thank you.

My friends. Hello everyone, and happy holidays. I would like to extend this very special invitation to you. You have a chance to help a very sick child, feel warm, and fuzzy all over. At the end of this invitation you will find a link to Project Linus. Project Linus has "blanketeers" who provide home-made blankies to some very deserving children. I am sure that most of you who recieve this email would say that you can not sew, but I am sure that you might know someone who is a great master of sewing, quilting, or crocheting. I invite you to collaborate with those talented friends, perhaps you could buy the materials and they could make the blanket and the two of you can donate this special gift together? The boys of our great troop, Boy Scout Troop 16 invite you to help them make their goals come to life. As it is the goal of our troop to send 50 blankets to Project Linus by the end of January. Please, email me with your commitment that you will be making a blanket for one of these very special children. Thank you in advance for your generosity and support of the boy's and most of all the Project Linus...you will be an honored, "blanketeer". As always, wishing you wellness Christine Moles and boysAny questions? Please call me at 209-547-0460 my email is rnstudychris@aol.com

Final Study Guide

Hey Everybody,

Mrs. Ippilito put the study guide for our final test and todays power point presentation on docushare if you are interested.

I have a question!!!

Does anyone know what they changed our login too on the ATI. Ive tried EVERYTHING and it wont work. I was able to get in a few weeks ago and I know they were going to change them.


Thank for the study guide Austin and Jennifer!!

test5 study guide n4

SJDC Fall 2006Nursing 4 Study Guide Topics for Musculoskeletal

SystemChapter 60
1. Effects of aging on the MS system
2. Serologic and radiologic studies of the MS

Chapter 61
1. Assessment findings and interventions for acute soft tissue injury
2. Stages of fracture healing
3. Nursing care of a patient in skin and skeletal traction, and a patient in a cast
4. Types of fracture reduction and nursing care
5. Postoperative care of the patient with hip replacement
6. Complications of fractures
7. Postoperative care of the patient with an amputation

Chapter 62
1. Pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and nursing care of the patient with osteomyelitis
2. Nursing care of the patient after spinal surgery
3. Clinical manifestations of osteoporosis

Chapter 63
1. Pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, collaborative care of the patient with osteoarthritis
2. Pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, collaborative care of the patient with rheumatoid arthritis
3. Pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, collaborative care of the patient with gout
4. Pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, collaborative care of the patient with SLE
5. Pathophysiology of the patient with systemic sclerosis and the CREST syndrome




TEST QUESTIONS ARE NOT LIMITED TO THESE AREAS. THE STUDENT IS STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTENT ON THE SCHEDULED READING ASSIGNMENTS.

Open Letter from Fern Sison

Hey everyone, I'm reposting this open letter from Fern Sison which was inadvertently posted to the June '07 Blog for everyone to read. I've included my thoughts in the first comment of this re-post.
danO

Repost from: Futurenurses2007: Tuesday, November 28, 2006


Test Questions

There is a rumor out there that I am copying test bank questions and handing them out to students. To be more specific a student wrote that I took test bank questions for the Endocrine test and gave them to students. I'd like to set the records straight. I go over different types of questions so that students can learn the concepts and how to answer and read questions. I have many test banks available to me. If you look on this blog for N4 subjects you will find all of those questions with the same concepts that I went over during study groups. I have NEVER COPIED TEST bank questions and handed them to students and I do not give special priviledges to any rotation.

I have always made myself available to any student that asks for my help. There are no special advantages given to any specific rotations. I go over questions to teach concepts and subjects that students may need to study about and I give page numbers for subjects (so the student can read the subject matter) that could help students but I do not give test bank questions to any students. There are more subject test questions on this blog than I even have. Ms. Romena gets her test questions from many different sources and she even writes her own. Some may even come out of NCLEX study books with practice questions. If a student passes, it is because they studied and deserve to pass. And for the student spreading the rumor, the grades didn't get any higher on this test than any other test!

If anyone needs help my office is L214 and my office number is 954-5492.
Anyone who studies hard and goes over the subject matter or even studies the questions on this blog listed under N4 subjects could benefit and pass their classes.

Sincerely,

Fernisa Sison
Nursing Instructor"

N5 study guide 3

Thank you Jennifer for posting the 3rd study guide from the previous class. If anyone is interested I went through and added a couple of details that I thought was missing, and included a couple of more tables that seemed of some benefit.

N5 Study Guide Exam 3

The study guide is on docushare now. Thanks to previous N5ers for this:

New directions for Family ties and Recovery House

Exit Matthews Rd. from I-5
Go West on Matthews Rd. approx 1/2 mile
Turn right on Delivery Rd.
Go approx 1/2 block
RH will be on the right
Further down Family Ties will be on the left.

***Do NOT park at 500 W. Hospital Rd. (the main building) or you will be walking quite a long distance!

Chemical Dependency Directions

Here are some directions for anyone who needs them.
They both start from Delta. If anyone gets directions for the other places, you can post those too. I didn't get a chance to. Also, there is a FT in Stockton but the adress the teacher showed us in clinical was for French Camp. So you if you're using the French Camp directions you might want to make sure that's the facility she wants us to go to.

FAMILY TIES:
1.Head south on Pacific Ave toward W March Ln - go 0.3 mi
2.Turn right onto W March Ln - go 1.8 mi
3.Turn left onto the ramp to merge onto I-5 S - go 8.2 mi
4.Take the Mathews Rd exit 467B - go 0.2 mi
5.Turn right onto W Mathews Rd - go 243 ft
6.Turn right onto S Manthey Rd - go 0.3 mi
7.Turn left onto W County Hospital Rd - go 0.1 mi
8.Continue on W Hospital Rd - go 30 ft
9.Arrive at 500 W Hospital Rd
French Camp, CA 95231


KAISER (KCD)
1.Head south on Pacific Ave toward W March Ln - go 0.3 mi
2.Turn left onto W March Ln - go 1.5 mi
3.Turn left onto West Ln - go 1.2 mi
4.Turn left onto Tommydon St - go 0.1 mi
5.Arrive at 1305 Tommydon St
Stockton, CA 95210

Hope this helps...
-Lindsay

n4 study guide

Study topics for exam 4 - Immunology Fall 2006

Chapter 13
1. Explain the inheritance patterns
2. Types of Immunity
3. Differentiate between cell-mediated immunity from humoral immunity.
4. Effects of aging on the immune system
5. Explain and differentiate between the different types of hypersensitivity reactions. Give examples of conditions under each type.
6. Explain the assessment, diagnosis and collaborative care of allergic disorders.
7. List and explain the cardinal principles in the therapeutic management of anaphylaxis.
8. List and describe the different mediators of the allergic response.
9. Briefly explain autoimmunity and the different treatment method
10. Differentiate primary from secondary immunodeficiency disorders, graft-versus- host disease.
11. Briefly explain immunosuppressive therapy.
12. Know WBC values.

Chapter 14
1. Explain the pathophysiology of HIV/AIDS
2. Explain the clinical manifestations and complications of HIV/AIDS.
3. Explain the diagnostic studies, criteria and collaborative care for patients with AIDS.
4. Explain the different opportunistic diseases associated with AIDS and their clinical manifestations.
5. Explain the indications for the initiation of antiretroviral therapy in the chronically HIV-infected patient.
6. Explain the different drug categories of antiretroviral agents used in HIV infection.

Pages 747- 751.

giving thanks

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Be thankful this semester is almost over!!! ;)

Liana.............................

call me 209 9436738 or 209 4033241 (tomorrow after 12 and anytime after that)

Study Guide 2 part 2

Here is the second half of the second study guide. As usually, if you find anything additional that you think should be added, please share it with the rest of your classmates.

Austin

Study Guide 2

Here is the first 10 questions completely answered, the other half will be provided in the next few hours. Good luck.

n5 grade from first 9 wks

hey, has anyones official grade posted online yet?

Open, Closed, Random type families

http://www.nais.org/publications/ismagazinearticle.cfm?Itemnumber=148198&sn.ItemNumber=145956

"Closed" families have a tight boundary around them that separates them from the outside world. You don't just drop in on a closed family. These families exercise power in a top-down way, with the father customarily the "boss." They value preparation, unity, sincerity, and clarity. Open families, by contrast, have a less formidable barrier around them and tend to value tolerance, authenticity, latitude, and responsiveness. Random families are dramatically different from closed and open families. Their use of time and space are likely to be dispersed, irregular, and fluctuating. They value ambiguity and whimsicality; above all, they want to protect the originality and creativity of their children

Exam Grades for N4

Does anyone know if our grades that our clinical instructor had given us was our final grade or has she not included our extra credit? thanks....

N4 Study Groups

This was posted on our blog
Congratulations to everyone who made it through N4 and for those who are now starting N4. If anyone needs a study group, please e-mail me at fsison@deltacollege.edu. Otherwise I will not schedule study groups until after November 14th when my EKG course ends....unless you want to meet on Thursdays.

I would love to meet with students and help in anyway I can. If you have trouble with your Care Studies and/or just want someone to review them before you turn them in, please feel free to drop by my office (L214) on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Thursdays and I will be happy to read then and critique them.

Good luck everyone!

Fernisa Sison
L214
954-5492 office

Great Job. That was alot of work you went through and it is VERY thorough. Only one thing for me to add and I think it goes without saying. If a pt refuses meds, which is their right unless the court states otherwise, you must document and notify MD.

N4 study guides

Hi every one, I would really appreciate copies of the study guides for N4, if you can help me please send them to me at shadowphoenix56@sbcglobal.net. Thanks, Debbie (tutor)

N5, the completed study guide

Please feel free to add what I might have missed.

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.

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

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

SJMC - 1st Rotation

1st Rotation - St. Joe's

Courtesy of Elizabeth G.

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

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

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.

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.

N5 a last minute study guide

helpful study guide but its long.

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

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!

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

Just a Bunch of Nut Heads

Good Luck with Finals Everyone!

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?

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!!!!!!!!! :)

Neruological System

For those of you who don't check your student email often Romena sent a study guide for the next test. Check comments for the study guide

Happy Studying!

An Army of One

Or so they say....I was approached by an Army Recruiter yesterday. I told him I would post this to the blog so here it is. They accept people older people too into the reserves. If you have any interest in this call him:
Staff sergeant Daryl V. Morris
(707) 429-0652/0648
Cell: (707) 816-7585
Web site: goarmy.com
1(800)USA-ARMY

Please comment

Does anyone know how many days of clinical we can miss? Or maybe how many hours we can miss in a semester? Please let me know.

Thanks,
Lindsay

SJDC ADN Class of 2007

SJDC ADN Class of 2007N5- mental health study guide: pls. comment on " delirium tremens" pertaining to ETOH??

ABG's

ABG's

Folks we need to know these!

N5 study guide posting

Thank you for posting all the questions for the study guide this will benifit everyone. Double thumbs up for RENA!! You really posted more than your share. Guys we really need to get into the habit of this because further down the line it gets harder. The more help we get from each other the better we are 40 heads are better than 1 and your grade will show. Thanks again for everyone that helped in getting this posted. Only one more left to go and them the work really begins with N4. RIGHT ON!!!

Holy Crap!

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Lena Nelson had looked forward to buying dolls and other presents for her first granddaughter, who was born prematurely last week. Instead, she was planning Monday for the girl's funeral.

D'myia Sabrina Nelson and another premature baby girl, Emmery Miller, died Saturday after they received an adult dose of a blood thinner at Methodist Hospital.

Four other babies also were affected. Three were in stable condition Monday at Methodist, while the fourth was in critical condition at Riley Hospital for Children.

Hospital officials said that the overdoses were the result of human and procedural error and that their hearts go out to the families, but Nelson said that doesn't ease her pain.

"They couldn't give me enough apologies for what they have done," Nelson said. "They just took her away. It's like murder. She was just taken away from us."

Heparin, which is often used in premature children to prevent blood clots that could clog intravenous drug tubes, arrives at the hospital in premeasured vials. The vials are placed in a computerized drug cabinet by pharmacy technicians.

When nurses need to administer the drug, they retrieve it from a specific drawer, which then locks again.

Sam Odle, chief executive of Methodist and Indiana University Hospitals, said a pharmacy technician with more than 25 years' experience accidentally took the wrong dosage from inventory and stocked it in the drug cabinet in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Nurses, who are accustomed to only one dosage of heparin being available, then administered the wrong dose.

The adult and infant doses have similar packaging, officials have said.

Odle said Monday that the three hospitals that make up Clarian Health Partners -- Methodist, Riley and Indiana University -- would no longer keep certain doses of heparin in inventory. All newborn and pediatric critical care units will require a minimum of two nurses to validate any dose of heparin. And nursing units will receive an alert when a change in packaging or dose is entered in the drug cabinet.

In addition, all employees will be required to sign a document about the importance of correct drug administration by Sept. 23.

Odle stressed that the hospital is "among our nation's safest" and said Methodist would learn from the mistake.

The deaths came just days before the state was to approve a rule that would require hospitals to report errors.

Take a Break ;)

Some humor especially for those in N5!!

ATI

does anyone know when the ATI is going to be for N5

study guide for N5

I was just wondering if anyone could help with question #8 and 11. I am not too sure if what I have is right. I would like to compare answers with someone.

N4 Study Guide for the Respiratory System

Here is the study guide Ms. Romena handed out last minute. Some people got a copy to give to their clinical groups but I know most won't get it until next week so here it is. Please pass it on to all.

costovertebral angle - General Practice Notebook

costovertebral angle - General Practice Notebook: "costovertebral angle

The costovertebral angle is the recess made between the 12th thoracic vertebra and the T12 vertebra at the posteroinferior margin of the thoracic cage on each side."

pix here: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/year1/bcs96/slides/abdomen/abd29.html

Definition of fremitus - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Definition of fremitus - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary: "fremitus
One entry found for fremitus.
Main Entry: frem·i·tus
Pronunciation: 'fre-m&-t&s
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, murmur, from fremere to murmur; akin to Old English bremman to roar
: a sensation felt by a hand placed on a part of the body (as the chest) that vibrates during speech"

N4 info. from Docushare

Some info on N4 topics from Nursing 101/Docushare ...

http://docushare.deltacollege.edu/dsweb/View/Collection-5039

Bogger Meeting

Would Tues the 5th at 1115ish be good for you Dan, Jennifer and anyone else interested in preserving the blogs for the future nursing semesters?

Blogger Meeting Needed!

Calling all Blog administrators and active bloggers!
We need to get together face to face and have a pow wow over lunch or something. We need to talk about how to keep the blogs active and going after we leave Delta. We need to have cross administrative priviledges to help each other out with tech support, mentoring, CD example helps and continuing invitations to the proper blog as new students slide sideways into our classes (out of sync). We need to get helpful links and email addresses onto a master sheet to handoff to the new semesters so that the helpful sites dont get lost in older blogs.
In other words, we need to talk about our mission, vision and goals!
Dan Oden (2nd sem) has suggested Friday Sept 2nd or the following Tues.
I (4th sem) am doing a 12 on Friday but am available Mon, Wed, Thurs of this week and Tues, Wed and Fri of next week.
Please post here with your availability so that we can all come together at a mutually agreed upon time.
My (c) # is 329-1369
bboss947@sbcglobal.net

SNA Meeting

Just a reminder!
SNA meeting August 28th @ 1:00
Location LOCKE 313
Please join us
WE WLL BE HAVING A PDA PARTY AT THE SAME TIME. PLEASE BRING YOURS FOR INFO SWAPPING!

N5 test on Monday

SJDC ADN Class of 2007 Our first test is creaping up on us. I noticed that only one of you responded to the study answers. We really have to work together from the start to insure that we all can get good grades. Please feel free to share any answers that you may feel that give a better choice to what I just posted. HAPPY STUDYING!!

LMH N4 Clinical Group

Hey y'all, It was really cool seeing you in LMH today. If you need any insider info on how to make things run smoother, let me know.
Bonnie

n5 study guide?

I got the email from Mrs. Ippolitto and clicked on the link, but I cant open to see the study guide. can someone post the questions on here, i saw that liana posted the answers but i was just wondering if someone can post the questions....thanks.

hey all you helpful people....

it's nice to be helpful and post all the helpful study questions here, but it takes up a LOT of vertical space. might i suggest posting a title with a description, and then putting the body of information (ie:study questions) as the first comment within the post? that way the post is only a few lines long, instead of 20" of monitor scrolling, and if you're not in, say N5, you can skip by it and see what everyone else has to say. :)
hope everyone's off to a good start!

N5 quiz 1 study questions

There were some that I did not get. So feel free to add to what I already have along with sharing what I dont have.

PDA Party!

The first PDA Party will be included in the in the first SNA meeting on Monday, August 28th at 1300.
Everyone please come and bring your PDA to share info and navigation tips with new and fellow users. We need to help each other!
Location TBA.

SNA Meeting

Please join us for our first SNA meeting of the semester
Monday August 28th @ 1:00 location TBA

I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE!

We need to have a PDA Party ASAP for the 1^st Semester Nursing students. It looks as if a Monday 1300 or 1400ish might be the best time for all semesters. (It would be nice if maybe the SNA could take this up as an ongoing project every semester). I cannot do this alone. This involves a lot of sharing and instruction 1 on 1. I need anyone with any kind of PDA to share what you have learned so far in your PDA usage. We are all still learning and can swap programs, helps and ideas with each other.

We need the PDA information sheet that was provided by the 2^nd semester at the welcome tea. Can someone please send me a copy?
We also need to consolidate all past posted PDA info and any other info that we have access to.

This is an important project that will benefit all students and Nursing faculty alike. Please help and post replies here or email them to me.

bboss947@sbcglobal.net
I thank everyone in advance for your help.
This is the semester that you are mentoring in. Please extend to them the help that you received when you first started.

N5 Karen Ippolito's Test Taking Helps

This was posted for the Spring 2005 class, and so could be subject to change. It should give us some idea of what to expect.

SJDeltaRNstudents12/06: N5 psych drug quiz

SJDeltaRNstudents12/06: N5 psych drug quiz

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
Nursing and Allied Health Career Event:

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Register today!
For complete details and to register for our Nursing and Allied Health Career
Event, please visit:
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NURS 04 schedule for this Thursday....

Hey everyone, just confirmed with Julie in the Nursing Dept.,
Nursing 4 students should meet this Thursday morning at 06:30 in Locke 229. See you there!

BIG BIG OOPS !!!!!!!!!

I have been working on giving our test bank a face lift for the past few weeks. I have fixed all of the links, made titles for easy test link ID, rearranged the order and colors, etc.
but then...........
I got so excited and relieved to be finally finished that I accidentally hit the wrong key and deleted the whole bank out the Blog's existence.
Fortunatly, I have been keeping an updated copy on a word doc just in case (I know myself too well), but I do not know how to get it back to that exact moment in time to have all links to the bank still work. So I have reposted it in our January 2005 archives.
NEW TEST BANK
I have attempted to fix all of the recent links to the bank that I can find or have access to, but I can't fix all the links or the bookmarks that some of you may have made. Please let me know if you find any bad links.
I'm Sorry!
Have a nice day.
Bonnie

Face lift for the test bank

The Test Bank is currently under construction to clean up the appearance and to organize it better. You are still able to use it. Keep watching for changes and please bear with me. Thanks!

Attention to all blog administrators, please do not change the posting dates of any tests or quizes. If they are moved to another date or location the link in the Bank will no longer be valid.
I am checking all of the links right now and making the Links easier to read. This is my pre-school goal.

Community Service Opportunity!

From the desk of Mary Neville:
Kaiser is having a health fair on Sunday, August 20 from 8:00am to
3:00pm, at three Kaiser clinic locations. Please be aware when you are considering volunteering that, if there is not a Delta Nursing instructor at a site, the students will not be allowed to perform any regular nursing skills, just assist with other tasks as needed (i.e.: chaperone for paps, etc.). The fair is much like Su Salud and may evolve to replace Su Salud in the future.
This is a very late notice from Mary Neville, but it will look great on your resume and offers another community learning experience.
The upside, we will get to practice our skills, have fun and get a free T-Shirt.
The down side, if no instructors show up, we will only be able to be helpers of the non invasive sort. (but we will still have fun)
If you are interested, I have volunteer forms for Manteca, Modesto and Stockton that you can download and fill out to send to Kaiser ahead of time. You can also call or email the nursing office.

Mary Neville needs volunteers!

We are having the campus wide Welcome Day for new students on
Tuesday, August 15 from 10 am to 2pm. If you have an hour or two or
four and can help, we will have a table in Danner for the Health Science
programs. I also may need some help from 8am to around 9 or 9:30 am for
balloon blowing up activities. If you can help, send me an email or
give me a call.

mneville@deltacollege.edu

Call the nursing office @ (209)954-5454 for more info

The new semester's nursing blog has been created!

Do you know what this means? This will be the first time in the history of Delta's nursing history (that I know of anyway) that all 4 nursing semesters will be connected together in virtual cooperation and study!
This means that you are now virtual Parentbloggers!
Go check them out and watch as their blog develops.

Your semester is the closest mentor group to the newbies. Help them out with lots of study tips and shortcuts that you have learned. You know how they feel cuz you just, Been there, Done that! Mentors needed!
Share with them your stories of what you have seen and experienced so far and how you learned to put it all together!

1st Semester

THANK YOU

I want to thank everyone once again for helping with the tea, it was a great success. This event would not have turned out so well without the help that everyone put in it. I am sorry if I sounded like a nag in the beginning but I knew that as a class we were capable of putting together a tea that will be remembered for times to come and that is just what we accomplished. Team work is what it took and in the end that is what we did and I cant say how proud I am that we came together as a class and showed the new incoming students a grand welcome into their new semester. I will say it a thousand times, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!!!

SNA Meeting

DO THE “NON-TANGIBLES”
MATTER TO YOU?

• Satisfaction
• Service Opportunities
• Personal/Professional
development
• Networking possibilities
• Friendships

Get Involved and
Reap the Benefits!


To love what you do and feel that it matters
-how could anything be more fun?
- Katharine Graham

SNA’s Next Meeting:
August 28th @1pm

Watch your student email
for location to be announced.

SJDC ADN Class of 2007

Hope everyone had a fun time off from school and enjoying the heat. Just like most of you, I haven't had time to catch up on studying, but looking forward to seeing you all in class and hope to make new friends. Let's all stick together and help one another!!! Thanks to all who made last semester enjoyable! Suzanne

tea meeting almost here

just wanted to drop in and remind everyone that the welcoming tea meeting is scheduled for Friday at 5:30 ish if you can make it that would be great. We have alot to cover and this will be the final meeting before the tea. As always if you have any questions please call me or leave a message at 925-382-4713 cell or 925-706-9565 home thanks again for everyones help.

Liana

CPR Certifications!!!

Hey, for those of you that were previously certified long before entering the ADN program, make sure that it doesn't expire during our course...Bad things can happen if it does...

I hope everyones summer has been relaxing, my face hasen't left a book yet. Oh well, later.

Harrison

3rd Hepatitis B Shot

Hello Everyone! Just a reminder. Don't forget to get your 3rd shot of Hepatitis B!

Blessie

update on tea

ok here is an update in the tea which is on Aug 7th at 12:00 (just in case you might have forgotten). I am going to CANCEL the meeting on thursday it seems as if most of you cannot make it so I am going to reschedule it for FRIDAY JULY 28 AT 6:00. We will meet at Barnes n Nobles across the street from the college. This gives everyone plenty of notice so I hope that everyone take a note of this and tries to attend the meeting. I will most definately need all donations at that time b/c it only gives me a week to put it all together and buy what last minute things that we need. I have been trying to get a hold of a few people so I might need some of your help in doing this.

LILLIA JACKSON - in regards to the bookmarks that they were going to make we need to make sure that those are in order and if she needs anything to finish them.

RACHELLE- Hey there I need to make sure that you guys are still performing and about how long is your performance going to be. ( I cant wait for this) If you are still going to get the flowers for the center pieces we have about eleven tables just let me know.

DARLENE- She already has the gift bags almost done and she is set on the cake. YOU GO GIRL!!

KARINA- her dad is going to give us a break on the meat and cheese platters. I am just waiting to hear back from her on a price. PLEASE get back to me on this. I am waiting for a price before I order decorations to make sure we have enough money set aside. The decorations take 2-3 weeks for delivery and I leave next week so I want to try and to have them bought before then.

TERESA or ROY- have you picked up any name tags yet for the tea if not just let me know

JAMIKA- I need to make sure that someone has kept in contact with Dameron and has picked up their goodies for the raffle. I cannot seem to get a hold of her so if anyone is around that area or works at that hospital can you please check on that and get back to me as soon as you can.


I have a big container for ice water but I still am in need for punch bowls so if anyone has one at home that we can borrow let me know. We will need about 2 but I would like to get 3 if possible.

I am going to make a pasta salad b/c it is cheap and easy and is something that you can make the night before. I am still up in the air on the coffee situation so I was thinking if people brought their coffee makers from home we could do it that way. I have the coffee all we would need would be two regular and one decaf and just keep it going any other ideas just let me know.

For the name tags I figured that we could color cordinate them eg: Dameron gets red around their name tags ect.. and this will match the red tag around their clinical instructor as well. I figured that this would be easy just get seven or eight different colors and to write each name in a clinical group color and we could label each table with a color.

If anyone has anthing else to add to this just email me and let me know. I am not sure if I had forgoten anything.

Thanks

Liana

Welcoming tea meeting

There will be a meeting in reagards to the welcoming tea on Thursday July 06 at 5:30. Someone had mentioned meeting at downtown stockton so we will find a place to meet there. Please bring with you all of the donations that you have collected and any ideas that you may want to share. This will be our last meeting before the actual tea so I hope that everyone can attend. Thanks again

Nursing t-shirts

I found some nurse t-shirts you all might enjoy:)
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/rn