NURSING
202 INFORMATION
WELCOME! WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING EACH OF YOU!
The
following is some information about the course:
1. First day of class: August
18, 2008 9:05 a.m. in E206
2. Bring something to take notes with. Your course
handbook will be given to you the first day of class.
3. Make sure that
your CPR and TB Skin Test are current. You will need to also have your insurance
in effect that day. So you will need a $20 money order if your insurance is due
and you need to see Brooke Ridings about that.
4. You must
have your background check and drug screening done by and results to Shari Gholson
by Aug. 1
5. Class schedule: some changes throughout semester may
be necessary
Monday: 0905-1235 E206
Wednesday: 0905-1235 E206
Friday:
0905-1205 W107
6. You will have clinical on Tuesday or Thursday. The clinical
sites are Western Baptist Hospital and Lourdes. Both Hospitals are in Paducah.
7. Please check the nursing webpage at: http://nursing.westkentucky.kctcs.edu
after June 1 to learn which clinical day you have. For the course calendar, please
check this website (NOT Blackboard) after July 1.
8. Western Baptist Hospital
has changed their medication administration and charting policies. You will need
to complete orientation to AdminRX by May, 2008. (You will receive information
about computerized charting later.) If you do not submit your information by May
13, you will receive 8 hours of absence and will not be able to attend clinical
the first day.
9. The schedule for the two weeks of class will be:
Monday,
Aug. 18-first day of class
Tuesday, Aug. 19-lecture (8-12 p.m.)
Wednesday,
August20-lecture 0905-1235
Thursday, August 21-campus lab 8-1:00 p.m. split
lab
Friday, August 22-class 0905-1205
Monday, August 25-lecture
Tuesday, August 26-Clinical Orientation (all day)
Wednesday, August 27-lecture
Thursday, August 28-First day of clinical
Friday, August 29--lecture
10.
Your reading assignment for the first week of class: this was given to you at
the end of the semester. We cover IV content the 1st week and then start the GI
content which is chapters 56, 64,57,58 (in this order and these are on 1st exam).
Then we have chapters 59, pg.1365 food poisoning, chapter 62, and 63 on exam 2
as well as endocrine content (diabetes) and after all the endocrine content we
start cardiac. Hopefully this will give you a start on content reading.
12. Required Textbooks for Nursing 202:
a. Ignatavicius and Workman, Critical
Thinking Study Guide to accompany
Nursing for Collaborative Care, 5th Edition,
2005, Elsevier. ISBN: 0-7216- . 0614-8
b. Gahart and Nazareno, Intravenous
Medications, Edition, 2008 or 2009. Elsevier. (There is also available in a version
for PDA's.) will be available after July 1).
c. Nurse Pak B.
d. Cherry &
Jacob, Contemporary Nursing Issues, Trends, & Management. Elsevier 4th edition.
ISBN:9780323052177
e. Subscription to MED-PUBS
Other books that you will
find helpful are NCLEX review and study books which there are several and the
first day of class we will have some to look at.
13. Blackboard will be
available after August 12, 2008
14. Please check your student email account
occasionally during the summer and clean out junk mail. We request this because
we may need to send you important information during the summer.
Have
a great summer. We look forward to seeing you in August!
