"The challenges will be to your intellect and your heart, but your opportunities to make a difference are unlimited. You will never be bored. Keep in mind and also remember that nothing is rewarding that doesn't have some difficulty and challenge to it."-K Sanford RN, President of American Organization of Nurses

SNA meeting-ya'll come now.

Our next SNA meeting will be on
 December 5th @ 1300
in Locke 313
 Let's get in the holiday spirit together
 and celebrate the end of the semester
by bringing a treat to share.

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody! We're almost done with our first semester! Wahoo!! It's hard to believe! I'm thankful #1-to be in the program, but #2- to be associated with some really great people. Hang in there guys.... we can do it!

AMSA Knowledge Bowl

AMSA Knowledge Bowl
When: Friday, December 9th, 2005
Time: 1600 (4 p.m.)
Where: Danner Hall
What: A competition against other clubs on campus in multiple academic and fun categories for points and a prize. Teams are 5 people with 2 alternates.
Cost: $5
Club: Student Nurses Association (that is what you belong to even if you never attend meetings)
Who: Mandy Parker 495-7807 or aparker892@students.deltacollege.edu
Deadline for registration is November 23rd, 2005
Anyone that wants to participate can contact me for the details. I am working that day and will not be able to do this. Is anyone interested?

Hello there everyone!

I gotta say...we are so awesome...we have actually put needles into our friends arms..and they are still our friends!!!!

I wanted to say thank you to each of you that have offered help with the tea, given money as donations and keep putting up with my begging!!! :)

And lastly.....

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!! Think of all the things you are thankful for..I dont know about you all, but I feel that I have made 79 wonderful friends, and have almost one whole semester of nursing school done! Take a few minutes to count your blessings,give thanks and relax with your famalies!

Blessings,

Christine

Mike,

Hello there...please call me at home, I tried to email you but...something must be wrong with the email that I have (or the operator is the issue haha). I want to talk with you about the tea....

Thanks kindly!!

Christine
547-0460

Anyone registered for Nurs 5 63875 willing to switch to 99116, please let christina know.

Posts of interest for you 2nd semester.
http://deltarnstudents.blogspot.com/2005/11/calling-all-student-mentors.html
http://deltarnstudents.blogspot.com/2005/11/futurenurses2007.html
post comments and questions here so that we can help you.

This is probably a shot in the dark but anyone who may have SJGH starting in March, with C Smith for N5, but mostly N4 and would be willing to trade,... please let me know? Michelle and I live in Tracy and I have that clinical but we couldn't get her in and we would really like to drive together :) Thanks muchly!

Hi Guys!!! Sounds like we are all almost done with registering and I am dying to know who is in my clinical groups!!! I signed up for Nursing 4 with Prieto (61013) and Nursing 5 with TBA :) (63875) Let me know who you are. Can you believe we are almost done with our fist semester? YEAH!!!

Thank you so much...each of you who donated to the tea fund! I will send around the envelope next Thursday for those that are still interested in donating. There will be another meeting on Thursday Dec 1st at 12 pm. If anyone has gotten any raffle donations, please let me know in an email.

Some of you have shared interest to me regarding your will to help. I would greatly appreciate those of you willing, to call around town and see what you can get donated. We need decorations, supermarkets to donate gift cards to help us with food..things like that..so if you all dont mind begging...haha

Thanks again all of you!! You guys are a terrific support, we have a very nice class here (the best in my opinion ;)

See you all soon

Christine

NursingCenter - Professional Development - CE Article guys....Shelba wrote this for the nursing center...I bet some of this would probably be on the test...;) There is a test at the end of the article too.

Dear Future nurses,

Thanks to everyone for making last night's test taking session a success. To continue to increase your critical thinking skills, I have scheduled a session for Monday November 21, 2005 5:00pm to 6:00pm in the South Forum, "Learning How To Make a Pathophysiological map for Appendicitis".

For those who could not be there the slides are posted under Docushare - Nursing 101 Success folder. There are questions with the correct responses.

Also refer to my previous post about the Meds Publishing programs. Focus on the Skill building program and the nurse logic program. We will be purchasing these program for your use in the future for the computer lab but have free access until December 1. So if your grade are not what you ant them to be I highly recommend you look at the programs before it to late.

Remember, it not the question but the concept. Know the concept and you can answer the question.

Good luck and see you next week.

Caralee

READ THIS IF YOU ARE IN NEED FOR UNITS TO MEET FINANCIAL AID REQUIREMENTS FOR 12 UNITS NEXT SEMESTER...

Hello everyone. Today I met with the director of the work experience program. I was pleading er, um I mean discussing with him about how the nursing students were in need of 3 units to cover the rest of the 9 units that we have in nursing school. Many of us have already taken our pre req's thus leaving us scrambling for internet courses, etc to meet the financial aid required units of 12 for full aid...so after showing him our schedule and explaining to him about our clinical time, we were able to decide that indeed the 14-18 hours of clinical is considered "non paid" we had to discuss about the fact whether or not it would qualify as "volunteer" time. I told him that it was non paid but was surely not "volunteer", it is a requirement of the RN program. After careful consideration he decided that we as nursing students would be eligible for work experience some people being eligible for up to 4 units...however...of course there are requirments with hours and such...I will speak to yall at the lecture on Thursday if you are interested. I hope this will help some of you... I know it is a HUGE help to me.

See you all soon!
Blessings,

Christine

HEAR YE HEAR YE

HEAR YE! HEAR YE!
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE
STUDENT NURSE’S ASSOCIATION
WILL be ON
November 21, 2005
At
1330 hrs (130 Pm)
In
Locke 118

  Please join us for conversation and pizza

Learning through the NCLEX
Is anyone interested in having a regular time to meet and learn more about your current theory subject, and focus in on prioritization and rationale through NCLEX style questions? Everyone has a unique way of looking at, learning and thinking about new material. It helps everyone involved piece together the whole picture. I would like to set up (a) regular meeting time(s) on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons. It does not have to be in the tutor center or even on campus. Let me know if you are interested. This is a valuable way to learn and will really help you when you go into N4.

Might I make a suggestion?
If you are having a hard time with taking the tests and are not happy with your scores, I reccommend that you take N5 first. Mrs. Ippolito majors on helping you to decipher the NCLEX questions and you will have more confidence with the tests in N4. You can also use this time to focus in and study ahead on a pet subject or body system (or past subjects) that is (are) intimidating to you. Set a goal to do at least 5-10 NCLEX questions everyday pertaining to your current subjects. If you disclipline yourself, you will be ready for the big one after graduation without having to enroll in any extra costly review courses.

If you like to hit the ground running but get tired halfway through the semester (or your family does), I suggest that you take N4 first. Also, if you have a hard time motivating yourself into a more intensive study mode halfway through, you should take N4 first.

Hello my friends..

I know that some of you desired to come to the meeting today but were unable to make it..of course I understand. If you are interested, there are lots of things to do, and I would LOVE to have you help us!! :)

I am in desperate need of at least one person from each clinical group to agree to be at the tea on Jan 9th to greet the new students, pretty please ;)

We need people to call and get donations for the raffle prizes and donations for our food table as well.

Also, as a reminder...I will be collecting monetary donations from ya'll next Thursday, again I appreciate all of your support!

Please email me with suggestions, comments or anything else you may need information on at: rnstudychris@aol.com or at home, 209-547-0460.

c ya all later! ;)
blessings,

Christine

All you future nurses you...guys as I spoke about on Thursday, there will be a donation box on top of the desk in lecture this Thursday as well as next Thursday. I would greatly appreciate it if you would each put in $5.00 a piece. Shelba said you all would want to know where the money goes...well Delta Student Nurse Association gave us $50.00 and we have 80-100 people to feed and provide a warm welcome to. If we used $5.00 x 80 students we would have $400.00 which would equal out to about $4.00 per student this is for food, drinks, paper plates, decorations, and 2 carnations for each new student...so you all can see how fast that money can go. I know that we are all poor, and I hate to beg you all, but I can assure you that your money will be well spent and much appreciated. So..thanks in advance. Any questions, please call me, or come on Thursday at 12 in the skills lab...k guys byyyyeeee! ;)

Foods and Electrolytes
1. Dairy Products, Dark Green Leafy Vegetables, Canned Salmon are rich in which electrolyte?
2. Dried Fruit, Legumes, Green Leafy Vegetables, Dairy Products, Meat, Fish are rich in which electrolyte?
3. Meat, Fish, Poultry, Milk Products, Legumes are rich in which electrolyte?
4. Bacon Ham, Processed Cheese, Processed Food, Table Salt are rich in which electrolyte?
5. Avocado, Baked Potato, Spinach, Meat, Dates, Raisins, Banana, Milk, Orange Juice are rich in which electrolyte?

A Sodium (Na+)
B Magnesium (Mg+)
C Potassium (K+)
D Calcium (Ca+)
E Chloride (Cl-)

Nursing Blog
This blog has lots of practice tests and more. Check it out.
http://www.geocities.com/webstation_4nurses/index.html
I found the above blog link, on the following blog, so check this one out too. Whatever you find helpful, post it for the rest of us! There is too much information and helps for one person to sort through, but as a team, we can help each other.
http://mediblogopathy.blogspot.com/

Skills Lab Question...

For those of you that had skills lab last week...Monday labs didn't cause of the BRN and Wound thing...can you tell me what you did!

Also, does anyone have Julie Kay's correct cell phone number...apparently I have the wrong one! Thanks a TON!

-Lisa

A New Tool

Hey everyone, I found a new program that may help people post on the blog easier. It is a utility for your Word program that allows you to type into Word and post directly to the blog. I am using it now. The link, if you want to download and install it is:  http://buzz.blogger.com/bloggerforword.html

Test taking statagies will be held November 14, 2005 5pm - 6pm. sorry for the mixup and inconvience.

Caralee

New Tutoring Hours
I will be able to be at the tutor center on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 14oo-1700 if anyone is interested. Let me know. I will try to always have NCLEX questions with me to practice with.
I am sorry that I missed some of you over the last 3 days. I have been working 12 hour shifts at LMH. Great experience!

Guess who??? :)

Does anyone have any hookups to free stuff for a raffle I would like to do at the welcoming tea? A wine basket, movie theatre tickets etc...hey...Will...you would be a good guy to get people to give us free stuff!!! Send me an email if you are interested in wondering around and seeing what you can find ;)

PS...you guys are gonna love the invitations Dan made...so so cute!!

K...ta ta for now

Dear future nurses,

Since no room is available between 9 and 10 am on Monday for Test Taking Statagies, How about changing the time to between 5 and 6 pm prior to Pharm. Let me know what you think.
Caralee

Top Ten Reasons (and more) Why I Want Star Trek’s© Medical Beds In My Unit!
#10. The patient never has to be helped into or out of bed, nor even undressed.
#9. The patient doesn’t have or need any I.V. lines, tubes, or monitor cables.
#8. The patient doesn’t need a footstool, to be pulled up in bed, or even have a siderail.
#7. The patient never needs to be fed, and never needs to be bathed.
#6. The patient never has an excessive number of visitors.
#5. The patient never vomits, urinates, defecates, or expectorates.
#4. The patient will get up cured at the end of 46 minutes, unless killed off in the first five minutes of the show to entice you into watching the remainder of the program. He will not need a wheelchair for discharge.
#3. The patient rarely needs translator services arranged.
#2. The patient never contradicts or denies to the doctor what I just reported the patient had said or done.
#1 The patient does not have a callbell, does not call out “NURSE, !!!!”, or demand that his unreasonable request be done because he was a physician in his old country.

Smile! I found this on the nursing studio blog.
http://www.nursingstudio.net/

Need a little humor?
Check out
You might be an ER nurse if......
http://deltarnstudents.blogspot.com/2005/11/you-might-be-er-nurse-if.html

Oooopsie daisy....Thanks Chuck for pointing out that I forgot to tell y'all where to go for the meeting...and since I already told him where to go (haha) you guys can meet with me in Locke 229...C ya later! :)