NURSING 217 REGISTRATION AND CLASS INFORMATION

This information includes the Booklist and Course overview. The following links are for the VA Hospital clinical rotation. All Nursing 217 students are required to have this information for their VA Hospital rotation:

Instructions for completing VA forms-updated 08/22/2007

 Orientation booklet for the VA updated 8/13/2007

 Mandatory VA Training Booklet

 VA Stairwell map

 List of unapproved abbreviations

 Joint Commission 2007 safety goals

Registration Instructions for Nursing 217

Decide which Rotation you wish to start with (I, II, or III).  If your first choice is closed, select another.

Rotation I      

Medical-Surgical/Geriatric/Psychiatric


Rotation II    

Geriatric/Psychiatric/Medical-Surgical


Rotation III   

Psychiatric//Medical-Surgical/Geriatric

 

Medical-Surgical instructor:  Marilee Nebelsick-Tagg
Geriatric instructor: Barbara Servatka                                  
Psychiatric instructor: Chantal Flanagan        
 

Students registering for NURS 217 must first enroll in a clinical (CLN) section and will automatically be enrolled in the lecture (LEC) and the (LAB). Register for NURS 203 prior to completing your registration process. (if not previously taken)

Students must be available on clinical days for variable clinical assignments from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm for 12.5 hours of clinical per week.

Met AA Degree requirements? Contact Elvia Nunez, liaison counselor for Nursing Students at ext. 2179.

N217 Booklist for Fall 2007

RequiredTestbooks:

1.                   Ackley, B. J., & Ladwig, G.B.(2005). Nursing diagnosis handbook: A guide to planning care.  (7th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.

2.                   Delgin, J.H., & Vallerand, A.H. (2004).  Davis’s drug quide for nurses. (9th ed.). Philadelphia:  F.A. Davis OR

3.                   Ebersole, P., Hess, P., & Luggen, A. (2004). Toward healthy aging: Human needs and nursing response. (6th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.

4.                   Fortinash, K., & Holoday-Worret, P. (2004). Psychiatric mental health nursing. (3rd ed.).  St. Louis: Mosby.

5.                   Ignatavicius, D. D., & Workman, M. L. (2005).  Medical surgical nursing:  Critical thinking for collaborative care. (5th ed.).  Philadelphia:  W. B. Saunders.

6.                   McKenry, L. M., & Salerno, E. (2003).  Mosby’s pharmacology in nursing.  (21st ed.).  St. Louis, MO:  Mosby.

7.                   Pagana, K. D., & Pagana, T. J.  (2002). Mosby’s manual of diagnostic and laboratory tests. (2nd ed.). St. Louis: Mosby. 

8.                   Phillips, L. (2005). Manual of IV therapeutics.  (4rd ed.).  Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.

9.                   Pickar, G. D. (2004).  Dosage calculations.  (7th ed.).  Albany:  International Thompson Publishing.

10.               Potter, P. A., & Perry, A. G. (2005). Fundamentals of nursing.  (6th ed.).  St. Louis: Mosby.

11.               Springhouse nurse’s drug guide 2004 (5th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

12.               Varcarolis, E. (2006). Manual of psychiatric nursing care plans. (3rd ed.). St. Louis: Saunders.

 

CLINICAL ROTATIONS

                                              

Nursing 217                        Gerontology Topical Outline                                         Fall 2007 

                                                        Rotation I                 

Monday

Thursday

Thursday

7:30-9:20AM

8:00 to 10:00 AM

10:30 to 12:50 PM

NA-3   Theory

NA-3   Theory

NA-3   Campus Lab

8/20/07

 

Intro to Gerontology

Attitudes toward Aging

8/23/07

 

Normal Aging Changes

Interviewing the Elderly

8/23/07

 

Central Venous Catheters

Polypharmacy

Medication Assessment

REPEAT MATH EXAM

8/27//07

 

Nutrition/Metabolics

 

8/30/07

 

Elder Abuse & Neglect

QUIZ # 1

 

8/30/07

 

Discharge Planning

 

9/3/07

 

HOLIDAY

9/6/07

 

Hospice

9/6/07

 

Death, Dying & Grief

Pain Management

TEACHING PROJECTS

           1 & 2

9/10/07

 

Home Health 

 

NON-GRADED CARE PLAN DUE

 

9/13/07

 

Strokes

 

POLYPHARMACY PAPER DUE

9/13/07

 

 

 

TEACHING PROJECTS

      3 & 4

SIGNED SKILLS SHEETS DUE

9/17/07

 

Delirium/Dementia

QUIZ # 2

 

9/20/07

 

 

9/20/07

 

Biography Presentations

SKILLS TESTING

9/24//07

 

UNIT EXAM

    

 

9/27/07

 

New Rotation Begins

 

 

   

 

Barbara Servatka RN,MSN; email address: bservatka@palomar.edu

Office:760 744 1150 x 2584                Pager: 760 714 1612

Office Hours:  Monday 10-12 & 1-2 in NO-3; Wednesday 2-3pm at Pomerado;

                        Thursday 1-2 pm in NO-3         

                                        

 

Nursing 217 Psychiatric Mental Health Topical Outline

Rotation I

Monday Lecture

Thursday Lecture

Thursday Campus Lab

 

7:30 to 9:20 AM

8:00 to 9:50 AM

10:30 AM to 1 PM

 

NB-2

NB-2

NB-2

 

8/20/07

Health Perception: 

Beginning Concepts

Coping Stress Tolerance:  Anxiety Concepts & Intervention

8/23/07

Role Relationship: 

Therapeutic Interpersonal Communication

8/23/07

Mental Status Exam

Therapeutic Communication Techniques

Repeat Math Exam

12:30-1:00 p.m.

 

8/27/07

Cognitive Perceptual Pattern:

Mood Disorders

Adjustment Disorders

Suicide

8/30/07

Quiz

Cognitive Perceptual Pattern:

The Schizophrenias

 

8/30/07

Non-violent Crisis Intervention

ECT

 

 

 

9/3/07  HOLIDAY

 

9/6/07

Cognitive Perceptual Pattern:

Anxiety Disorders

Personality Disorders

 

9/607

 

Medication Project

Group Process

 

 

9/10/07

Cognitive Perceptual Pattern:

Child & Adolescent Disorders

Geropsychiatric Disorders

9/13/07  

Health Management:

The Nurse and the Law

Cognitive Perceptual Pattern:

Eating Disorders

9/13/07

Debate: Treatment vs. Incarceration

Interactive Review

Skills Check List Due

 

9/17/07

Quiz

Cognitive Perceptual Pattern:

Substance Abuse & Dependence

Sexual & Gender Identity Disorders

9/20/07           

Coping Stress Tolerance: 

Crisis Theory & Intervention

Family Violence

Grief & Loss

 Group Case Study Paper

9/20/07

 

Combined Campus Lab

Skills Testing

(1st rotation gero and m/s students)

 

9/24/07

Final Unit Exam

9/27/07

Start new rotation

 

 

 

 

 

Office Hours

Chantal Flanagan, RN, MS

(760) 744-1150 ext 2588

Mondays:        10:00-11:00 a.m.

                        1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Tuesdays:        6:15-6:45 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.-1:45 p.m. Aurora BHC

Wednesdays:   6:15-6:45 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.-1:45 p.m. Aurora BHC

Thursdays:      7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.

Pager: (858) 347-2288             e-mail: cflanagan@palomar.edu

 

Important Dates to Remember:

 

N217 Topical Outline – Med/Surg 

Rotation I 

Monday

Thursday

Thursday

Lecture

Lecture

Campus Lab

 7:30to 9:20 AM

8:00 to 10:00 AM

10:30 AM to 1 PM

NB-1

NB-1

NB-1

8/20/07

Nutrition/Metabolic Pattern

    Acid Base Disturbances

Metabolic/Elimination Pattern

Acute Renal Failure

 

8/23/07

 

Metabolic/Elimination Pattern

Acute Renal Failure cont

Chronic Renal Failure

 

8/23/07

Parenteral Nutrition

Review of IV skills

Overview of clinical requirements

Practice IV skills

Repeat Math Exam

8/27/07

Metabolic/Elimination Pattern

Chronic Renal Failure cont

 Renal and Bladder Tumors

Health Perception/Health Management Pattern

Spinal Cord Injury

8/30/07

 

Health Perception/Health Management Pattern

Spinal Cord Injury cont.

Hepatitis

8/30/07

 

Urinary Diversions

Types of Urinary Catheters

 

 

9/3/07

 

Labor Day Holiday

No Class

9/6/07

QUIZ

Health Perception/Health Management Pattern

Hepatitis cont

Cirrhosis

Individual Graded Care Plan Due

9/6/07

 

Physical Assessment Review

Skills Practice

 

 

9/10/07

Health Perception/Health Management Pattern

Cirrhosis cont

Pancreatitis

 

9/13/07

Health Perception/Health Management Pattern

Pancreatitis cont.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

9/13/07

 

Delegation exercise

IV Skills Practice (if time)

Signed Skill Sheets Due

 

9/17/07

Quiz

Health Perception/Health Management Pattern

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus cont

Group Graded Care Plan Due

 

9/20/07

 

Health Perception/Health Management Pattern

HIV/AIDS

9/20/07

 

CAMPUS LAB SKILLS TESTING

Med-surg and gero groups

9/24/07

UNIT EXAM

9/27/07

Start of new rotation

 

9/27/07

Start of new rotation

 


 


Marilee Nebelsick-Tagg    email
address:mnebelsick-tagg@palomar.edu  (760) 744-1150, ext. 2660