tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128117570580910332011-11-27T19:37:40.212-05:00Follow along as I train to become a nurse (RN).Demnoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931658796035264098noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212811757058091033.post-91349496669235573532009-09-24T12:00:00.002-04:002009-09-24T12:17:02.916-04:00

My scheduled for this semester starts off with 8 weeks of babies. Officially the class is titled Nursing Considerations Across the Lifespan II but essentially it's a Maternity course. Class is going well so far and I'm getting decent grades. Hopefully I can keep it up. After this class the next 8 weeks is NUR202, Psychiatrics. Keep an eye on my Tweets for more frequent updates.

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Here's a little something I put together to help me remember the cranial nerves. Listen to it by clicking play: To download the MP3, right click on the link below and choose "Save As..." Download MP3 Here is the text so you can follow along: Here is a pneumonic device for remembering the 12 cranial nerves. On Old Olympus’ Towering Tops, a Fin And German View Some Hopps. On, is for Olfactory.

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It's been a while since I last posted. All is going well. I'm still in school and crazy busy. Right now we are in Nursing 104 and 105. These classes are definitely harder than anything else we've been in so far. I'm passing but not by very much. My first test I had a 74 or 76 and the second test I had a 66. I'm very happy to say though that I got an 80 on this last one. I could've had an

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I just passed test number 3 in NURSING 102. I escaped this one by a thread though. You need at least a 70% to pass and I received a 70% mark. I'll have to study a bit more for the next one. Time to break out the old notecards and make myself a set of flashcards I think. Previous to this I had a 90% average so this is gonna set me back a bit. I'm sure I can bring it up again though.

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I just passed my Med competencies. I'm now allowed to administer meds (with the help of my instructor) to real live patients. Cool!

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I found myself reading about stents and managed to find this picture. Just thought I would share it.

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One of my favorite things from the vending machine. Helps keep me awake in class.

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Worrisome Infection Eludes a Leading Children’s Vaccine: A highly drug-resistant germ has become a common cause of meningitis, pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions in young children. The culprit — a strain of strep bacteria — can conquer almost all antibiotics in pediatrics, and has dodged a vaccine otherwise credited with causing the number of serious infections in children to plummet

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Hey all, just a quick note on a cool podcast that I found. It's called The Nursing Show. If you have an iPod, a Zune, or some other MP3 player you might want to check this out. You can also listen to it on your computer or burn it to a cd as well. If you are using iTunes: Click Here. If you use a Zune: Click Here. If you have neither of those and would like to use it with a different MP3

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We have our first test in Sociology tonight. I'm not too worried about it but, being the first test and all, I'm still a little nervous. Hopefully all goes well.

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Pic of my car in TRHMC parking garage.

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Just a quick pic of the tiered classroom at school.

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Here's what the old patch for the Nursing program looks like. Most of us have this patch on our uniforms but some of the patch. Its basically the same look but it reads "Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences" instead of "School of Nursing."

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Starting clinicals at 07:00 is a challenge. I'm really not a morning person.

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Man, bedmaking is more of a pain then I thought. Now don't get me wrong, I've made a bed before. I've just never made a bed for the hospital. Most of it is just like you'd expect but those blasted corners are a pain. Well, for me at least. I had to practice it and get it "not quite right" a few times first. I did manage to get it good enough to pass muster at least. You might be reading

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Testing mobile posts from the palm we got from school. We'll see how this works.

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Last Tuesday was the last day of my first year of school. Microbiology final was a beast but I think I did ok. I'll try and remember to post my semester and year end results when I get them. I'm really really looking forward to not having to go to school for a month. This'll be sweet.

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a Stop Codon is the codon present at the end of an mRNA chain that stops the transcription process. The codes for the stop codons are UAA, UAG, and UGA. To help me remember these I came up with this: UAA = U An Animal UAG = U A Giant UGA = U a Giant Animal It's silly I know but it works.

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Glycolysis Krebs Cycle Electron Transport Chain

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http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/human-body/human-body.html - Nice area of the Discovery Channel website.

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It's currently 1:30am and I'm not sleeping though I'm not really awake either. Not sure what the problem is but this is where I find myself. It could be stress. Work has been crazy lately and this semester of school is going to be pretty draining I'm sure. Summer vacation can't come soon enough. English class is going to really try my patience. It's funny, I really like to read and I enjoy

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Well the finals for my second semester are over now. I haven't received my final grades yet though. I'm sure I passed and I think that I did pretty good. Won't know for sure till the letter comes in the mail. Also, I just found a neat gallery of pictures displaying some disection pics of the human body. Nothing too gross but really shows some neat shots of how the body works. Here's the

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http://www.innerbody.com/http://www.getbodysmart.com/

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Hey, just doing some studying the upcoming A&P Finals. Tomorrow (Tues.) I have a lab practical to do with the written final on Thursday. I'll probably post several links/videos today as I study some of the different systems that we need to know. I'm confident that I'll pass the tests and the class but I'd like to do as good as I could.

Demnoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931658796035264098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212811757058091033.post-56384273261019488482008-03-08T10:54:00.003-05:002008-03-08T10:57:12.015-05:00

Here are two links to good online medical dictionaries. http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=&action=Home and http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

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Here's a great link to a site where you can gather a lot of really good information on the heart. There are some animations and a lot of great pictures describing the various inner workings of the heart and a lot of the problems that can occur there as well. http://medmovie.com/mmdatabase/MediaPlayer.aspx?ClientID=65&TopicID=0

Demnoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931658796035264098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212811757058091033.post-45644753194596379612008-02-05T19:33:00.001-05:002008-10-01T11:52:53.076-04:00

Just an interesting video:

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Just doing some quick studying for an upcoming test. I thought that I might remember some of these terms better if I typed them out. Megakaryocyte: the cell responsible for producing the platelets in the blood. [Wikipedia Link] Hemostasis: The process by which bleeding is halted. [Wikipedia Link][Great YouTube video here] Steps in a blood clot: Tissue Damaged --> Thromboplastin released -->

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Not really relevant to what we are currently going over in class but a really neat video all the same. Good for review on the way cells work and replicate.

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Just found a really cool site called 'the Virtual Slidebox.' It allows you to look at quite a many slides right in your browser. Pretty awesome site. the Virtual Slidebox

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Here's a good one with some more in depth data on the pancreas:

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Wow, it's been a while since I posted anything. The first semester is over. Yay! I passed AP1. Now on to AP2. We are in the new school building now. That is pretty cool. It's a lot bigger and has much newer technology. Parking is currently a huge issue but they say they are working on it.

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Perhaps not the most informative but certainly helps to get some of these terms stuck in your head. Here's a good one by Weird Al: Here's another good one:

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A short video talking about the Milgram Experiment.

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Well the first semester of school is almost over. Just have a few more tests to go and then I'll be done for the year. This Monday will hopefully be my last Gen Psych class. The class is setup such that if you get A's on all your quizzes then you don't have to take the final. So far I have A's on my quizzes. The last quiz is on Monday so if I can manage an A on that one too then I'm finished

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Had a quiz in General Psychology today. Just checked the website and the scores were posted already. I got an A. If I can manage to get an A on the next quiz as well then I don't have to take the final. That'll be sweet. We'll be finding out our scores for A&P tomorrow. I have a pretty good feeling about that test as well but we'll see. Well, time for bed. Another long day of work and

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Our 3rd of 4 quizzes is today in Anatomy and Physiology 1. This quiz will be on muscles and nervous tissue. After this I just have 1 quiz, 1 lab practical, and 1 final exam to go. Last day is December 13th I believe. The end of my first semester is quickly approaching.

Demnoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931658796035264098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212811757058091033.post-44000875734358855612007-11-08T10:51:00.001-05:002008-10-01T11:52:53.090-04:00

Here's another good video clip on Muscle Contraction A close up view:

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This is one for Psych class. We've been talking about how the brain processes things and stores memories and such. Just thought this was interesting.

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Don't know how much this one helps but it looks neat either way:

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Found a good article on the different tissue types. Good review for the upcoming lab-practical exam. http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookAnimalTS.html

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I received an 87% on my Mid-Term. Probably could have gotten an A if I just would have taken some more time and read a few of the questions more closely. Very good grade though, I'm not complaining. Coming up next in a few days is a one hundred point "lab practical" in which we have to identify different tissue types, bones, and other visual/practical things. I think I'll be able to pass it

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Did a lot of studying last night. We have a big mid-term today. This test is 150 questions where as our quizzes have only been 25 questions. The nice thing is that we can leave for the evening as soon as we finish our tests.

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Took another test last Thursday in Anatomy and Physiology. I got 23 out of 25 points possible. Things are going great so far. We just started on bones and we have a mid-term coming up pretty soon. Hopefully I'll do good on that too. This is a lot of information to absorb.

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Here's a video not specifically dealing with Transport but it gives a good overall view of the cell membrane itself.

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Similar info but by a different author:

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Hyaline in more detail: Elastic in more detail: Fibrocartilage in more detail:

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Here are two fairly good videos on Mitosis. This will come in handy for the lab test.

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My first two tests are out of the way. One for General Psychology and one for Anatomy and Physiology. Got A's on both tests. Nice.

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I had a few questions about how the mRNA letters were assigned. This video answered my question.

Demnoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931658796035264098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212811757058091033.post-8126686766709596402007-09-20T20:52:00.001-04:002008-10-01T11:52:53.156-04:00

A neat song. The audio and video are out of sync but the words really do get stuck in your head.

Demnoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931658796035264098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212811757058091033.post-51504408648576043392007-09-20T20:33:00.000-04:002007-11-08T11:38:04.983-05:00

It is my intention in this blog to talk about my career in nursing. We'll start at the very beginning as I have just entered into nursing school. Most of the time I'll probably just be posting videos from youtube that detail the things that I am learning at the moment. I look these videos up largely as a benefit to myself as I learn best visually. I can read something in a book 10 times and

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