#2

ok so i think this is th answer:

Palpating carotid: palpate only one at a time.
- this ensures adequate cerebral flow through the other and thus prevents possible ischemia.
- Avoid exerting too much pressure and massaging the area.
- Ask client to turn head slightly toward the side being examined

Palpating Peripherals: on both sides of the clients body individually, simultaneously and systematically to determine the symmetry of pulse volume.
- if difficulty arises use a Doppler Ultrasound probe

HOW TO PALPATE: USE THE PADS OF THE FINGERS B/C THEIR CONCENTRATION OF NERVE ENDINGS MAKES THEM HIGHLY SENSITIVE TO TACTILE DISCRIMINATION.

NO THUMBS!!!

help with question#3

Hey does anyone know where in the book to find the answers to #3..ive been looking for way too long:) thanks

Study Guide for Exam 1

Hey Everyone. There are 37 questions on the study guide and 79 of us....let's work together by discussing them. I'll start....

1. Define and give examples of ethnocentrism.
Ethnocentrism is the thought that one's cultural values and beliefs are superior to those of other cultures. In providing care for clients that have differing cultural beliefs and practices, health care professionals must genuinely explore their own feelings and beliefs and consider how their ethnocentrism may impact the care delivered to clients. An example would be as a health care professional not listening to a client who wants a cultural remedy because you don't believe in it.

Bogger Meeting

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

Pharmacology

If anyone is interested, I will be setting up a study session for Pharm in the tutor center before your class and possibly at another time too if needed. The HS3 students are not covered under the nursing grant so the tutoring needs to come from the Tutor center in SHIMA 217. If you are interested in setting up a study group or tutor session for N3 let me know. Any ADN nursing student(s) can be paid for setting up a study group in your class. This doesn't mean that you have to know it, but that you are organizing it. See Mrs. Flanders with the Student Success program if you are interested.

Anger speeds up deterioration of lungs: study

Anger speeds up deterioration of lungs: study

LONDON (Reuters) - Lung power normally declines as a person ages but being angry and hostile can speed up the process, researchers said on Thursday.

In a study of 670 men ranging in age from 45 to 86, they found that males who had higher levels of long-standing anger at the start of the eight-year project had significantly poorer lung function at the end of it.

"This study is one of the first to show prospectively that hostility is associated with poorer pulmonary function and more rapid rates of decline among older men," said Dr Rosalind Wright, of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, in a report online in the journal Thorax.

The scientists used a scoring system to measures the levels of anger of each of the men and they tested their lung power three times during the study.

Even after taking account of other factors such as smoking that can also have an impact on lung power, hostility and anger had a negative effect.

Anger, hostility and stress have also been associated with heart disease, asthma and other ailments.

Wright and her team suggested that the negative emotions could change biological process and may disturb the immune system and cause chronic inflammation.

"Stress-related factors are known to depress the immune function and increase susceptibility to or exacerbate a host of diseases and disorders," said Dr Paul Lehrer, of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, in an editorial in the journal.

He added that it is unknown how chronic anger contributes to physical deterioration but said the researchers established a link between chronic anger and age-related deterioration in lung function.

"The next step is to determine the exact pathway by which this happens," said Lehrer.

Free cold one at 'Bucks

SORRY FOLKS... had to pull the freebie coupon. Starbucks is declining to honor them now, although they did the last few days. Evidently it was meant for "friends and family" and somehow made it out to the public domain (wonder how that happened). There was a sign at the 'Bucks apologizing for any inconvenience.

ATI Passwords

Hi everyone just wanted to post the ATI passwords that way we can all access the website and use the free tests!
ATI Testing

TEST ID TEST NAME Password

151535 RN Fundamentals of Nursing 22s7041R51

15138 RN Fundamentals of Nursing 2.0 22s4971R53

151539 RN Pharmacology 1.0 22S6781R65

151536 RN Pharmacology 2.0 22s5671R52

Skills class photos?

I know there are some out there. Let's get them posted!

Feel free to email me if you have questions re: posting the pics.

Danielle

Just saying hello

Which PDA to Buy

Hello everyone,
Which PDA do you recommend I should buy? I am looking at the Palm TX or the Palm LifeDrive. The Palm LifeDrive is larger with 4GB of memory and the Palm TX has only 128MB. What do you think is best and why?
Thanks

skyscape or pocrates???

what's the difference between getting skyscape bundle or getting a epocrates subscription? which is better? or is it the same?

This weeks skills check off

Hi All,

I checked with Mrs. Semillo and the skills check off this week is on vital signs and physical assessment only, and does not cover any of the other duties we have been learning in skills lab the last couple of weeks (transfer of patients, bed baths, etc...) Some of you may already have known this but our instructor was not sure so I thought I would post it here for all to see.


Good Luck Everyone!!

Question of the Week for 08.28.06

In addition to standard precautions, a nurse should implement contact precautions for which client?

1. 60 year-old with herpes simplex
2. 6 year-old with mononucleosis
3. 45 year-old with pneumonia
4. 3 year-old with scarlet fever

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

welcoming tea chair needed

Now is the time that I have to ask someone to step up to the plate and take over my spot for next semester. As chair person of the welcoming tea you will also have to gather up a commitee of classmates to you help you in this task and of course I will help in any way that I can. Please call or email me if you would like to volunteer. lianasmail@yahoo.com 925-382-4713

Quiz for nursing 1

Just to be sure, there is no quis this week right? I didn't see one posted on coursecompass.

Tracy area folks - study group?

Are there any folks in the Tracy area that want to get together for a study session?

It does not need to be a permanent group at this point, as I know some schedules are still a bit up in the air but I know that I would enjoy having a study group close to home.

I can offer my home as a possible location (2 blocks from Sutter Tracy) or we can meet elsewhere.

STUDY AIDS

I WAS PLAYING AROUND ON THE COMPUTER LOOKING FOR SOME RESOURCES AND I FOUND A WEBSITE CALLED THE STUDY STACK. IT HAS ON-LINE FLASHCARDS, STUDY INFO, CROSSWORD PUZZLES, AND MORE. THE LINK IS...

http://www.studystack.com/category-22 (for nursing)

or

http://www.studystack.com/category-2 (all medical)

Assessment Videos and More

From the University of Virgina comes
Assessment videos and more
Check out this site for lots of helpful info.

Meeting Location

SNA meeting will be in Locke 313

Pix from the Welcome Luau

Hope you all enjoyed the welcome Luau. It was a LOT of work, and a lot of people pitched in to give you all a nice kick off for your new ADN program. Liana DeVille bore the brunt of organizing it, so if you want to drop her an email thanking her for her efforts, you can sent it to her at lianasmail@yahoo.com

I'm still trying to figure out how to post pix here, so see the comments to this post for pix. I'll try and get some captions for them asap.

hope N1 and N3 are going great!

danO

SJDC ADN Class of 2008: Welcome 1st Semester Students!

some helpful 2nd semester students

Sweatshirt Orders

If you ordered a sweatshirt or jacket at the welcome tea, they have arrived. I will have them at the SNA meeting on Monday 8/28

Thursday skills lab!

Hey everyone..I spoke to Ms. Semillo on the phone yesterday and she said to come in tomorrow and she will go over things we didnt learn in skills lab. Me and some others are going to arrive aroun ten 0' clock so please come join us! see u then)

Share the Work

You are no longer alone.
There is no grade curve to compete for.
This is a virtual study group blog.
If everyone posts 1 answer to the study guides, you will be sharing the work. Comment on each other's answers. That way everyone will be on the same page. You each have your own unique thoughts. Someone else will always come up with a thought that never occurred to you. Everyone benefits, the learning is easier when it is interactive.
If you are able to explain a concept OUTLOUD to someone else (even if it is your dog), then you have really learned it.
We are being trained to be teachers, start with each other.
Share your clinical stories, hang your reading on what you see and know. Make it personal, it will help with understanding and retention. The more graphic or funny you can make it in your mind, the better.

Here are samples of how the semester ahead of you shared the work and their thoughts.
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 4
Sample 5

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.

Question of the Week - 08/21/06

A nurse is performing the routine daily cleaning of a tracheostomy. During the procedure, the client coughs and displaces the tracheostomy tube. This negative outcome could have avoided by

1. placing an obturator at the client’s bedside
2. having another nurse assist with the procedure
3. fastening clean tracheostomy ties before removing old ties
4. placing the client in a flat, supine position

SNA Meeting

Just a reminder!
The frist SNA meeting will be on
August 28th @ 1:00
Location TBA
For those of you who special ordered
sweatshirts at the welcome tea,
they will be available for pick-up at
the meeting

FYI about Powerpoint

Hi fellow classmates...fyi if you want to be able to view Powerpoint slides or print them off for free, you can go to the official website for powerpoint. At the bottom of the page, you can download Powerpoint Viewer 2003. IT'S FREE!!! It will allow you to view and print Powerpoint slides without having to buy the program. Have a good one!

Skills Lab Photojournalists wanted

Okay, okay..... so you won't necessarily be able to add "Photojournalist" to your resume..... but you can add some memories to the blog! :-D

All that is needed is one rogue student per class with a digital camera and the gumption to say "Cheese!"

Here is a link to the help page re: posting photos http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41641&topic=8915 I'll happily assist if you have questions.

Let's get some photos added to the blog and save these moments for posterity.

Danielle

Welcome 1st Semester Students!

Congratulations on making it into the program! Remember, stick together and you will make it through some of the toughest times that are ahead. Most important: Learn to think like a nurse and become familiar with taking nursing exams. This can be done simply by purchasing an NCLEX review of your choice. Start practicing now! Also, take the "test taking strategies" on the computer in the skills lab or on docushare under Caralee Bromme. This will help train your brain. Part of your success will be about knowing how to take these exams... Good luck!

~Harrison

Question of the week 8/14/06

The unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) reports a sudden increase in temperature to 101 degrees Fahrenheit for a post surgical client. The nurse checks on the client’s condition and observes a cup of steaming coffee at the bedside. What instructions are appropriate to give to the UAP?
1. Encourage oral fluids to prevent dehydration
2. Recheck temperature 15 minutes after removing hot liquids from the bedside
3. Ask the client to drink only cold water and juices
4. Chart this temperature elevation on the flow sheet

Great Skills Lab !!!

Hey All,
Just a note to let every one know that our first Skills Lab on Friday was GREAT!! I went in feeling totally nervous and some what intimidated about having to perform all the things that I viewed on the videos and feeling really unprepared even though I had done all the reading and viewing I could possibly handle, but guess what..............IT WAS A WONDERFUL experience!! There is often much humor in what goes on in there hint, those of you that have Richard Sevilla you might consider shaving your legs and making sure your feet are clean and presentable prior to lab..........Just in case you get to meet Ted with your class mates! There were some times we were trying to do a skill on a class mate and ended up in tears......From laughter. We all seemed to walk in mostly not knowing each other and self conscious, and then very quickly wanting to all help each other and laughing along together to get through the reality of knowing yes, you too will be wiping many BUTTS! I really came out of skills Friday with soooooo much more confidence and less nerves and fears about learning all the necessary skills that I need to move on and accomplish to reach my goal. Many of these skills we will be learning are intimidating but I know with the great skills lab set up, we can ALL accomplish our goal. A big Thank You to Richard Sevilla for running such a educational and fun hands on lab session and not making any question seem dumb or "common sense". Did any body else enjoy their skills lab yet??? I must admit, our blog seems pretty lonely.................any body out there?????????????????????

Books For Sale

I am passing this on from a 2nd semester student:

BOOKS FOR SALE (All NEW)

Nursing 2
HEALTH ASSESSMENT FOR NURSES + LAB. GD. + CD
(Wilson) - required. $55- (bookstore price $82.10)
MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING, COMPLETE - W/CD
(Lewis) - required. $80 - (bookstore price $109.85)


HANDBOOK OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY (Corwin) - recommended. $25- (bookstore
price $39.50)

Nursing5
NURSING DIAGNOSIS IN PSYCH. NURSING
(Townsend) - recommended. $25- (bookstore $35.45)

Please call Sandra @ (209) 598-6618 if you are interested in
purchasing any of these books.

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.
Danielle, since I am not an adminstrator to your blog and did not post that first post with the test bank in it, either you or Dan will have to fix the link.
I'm Sorry!
Have a nice day.
Bonnie

Yes I was able to get into the files.
However, they are extremely large and take some time to open. The bio file is approximately 115 pgs long. I got stuck the first time. So, I closed it and went into the second file then back into the first. All of the files are large (70-115 pages each) So, be aware!

Problems with Docushare ??

Hi All,
Are any of you having any difficulties opening the new lecture docs that Mrs. Semillio has just added to the nursing 1 file in Docushare??? These are her powerpoint lecture presentations for some of the up coming lectures but I am unable to view them........any feed back or suggestions????????

Thanks

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.

New Davis NCLEX Review for PDA

For the PDA folk among us, Skyscape is offering a new Davis NCLEX Review for PDA.

http://www.skyscape.com/estore/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductId=1822

Don't forget SJDC has a 25% discount on many Skyscape items!

http://deltarns2007.blogspot.com/2005/08/o.html

Welcome to Nursing!

Thank you Danielle for the invitation to your new blog.
I wish all you the best. If you want to see how to get started, go to the 2nd semester's blog and scroll down until you see the archives on the right hand side of their page.
2nd Semester Blog
Click on January 2006. This will put you on their blog at the time when they were right where you are now. There is alot of getting started tips in the first few months of their blog. They will be the closest to you in theory and clinical experiences. You can get help from all of the blogs this way. Every semester the blogs get better because the students before you have laid groundwork down or have added to others. You shouldn't have to keep having the same struggles of finding help. It has already been done. You guys will be able to add stuff far beyond of what we have accomplished so far and will be able to pass it on to the next semester. The only limitations to your learning is yourself, the help is out there for the taking, you just need to use it.

Here is how you can search each blog. At the top of each blog there is a box that says "Search this blog" Say you wanted to find out about PDA stuff, you type in "PDA" in the white space next to the search box and hit search. It will bring up a list of all of the blog posts that have any mention of PDAs in them. This way you can quickly find the information that you need.

These blogs are virtual study groups for the entire class. When you get a study guide, some of you(for example) can type out a few questions and post your findings with the page numbers of where you found your information. That way the study load is shared among many and everyone can comment on the findings and share what they found or think about it. It really helps to compare your thoughts with others to see if you or others are on the right track.

Hey, Good luck.
Enjoy the ride. It goes by way too fast!