Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Last Class of This Semester

Done


{Marina - one of my favorite professors}
Sometimes people are beautiful not in how they look, not in what they say, just in what they are. Like Marina, who taught the last Community Health Nursing class of this semester today. She was also my Mental Health instructor last semester. I think the most memorable thing she taught me this semester is that fake people have an image to maintain, real people don't care. Study guide for the final from her class on Tuesday:

2300 Final Review/Spring 2015
Unit I, II, III IV (14 questions)
• Health Care Delivery Systems:Understand primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; understand political activism for nursesdefine aggregates, different government healthcare delivery systems (ie: Free market, Socialism, etc), detecting health quackery. 
• Roles of the Community Nurse:attributes & functions of the Community Health Nurse (CHN), role of the case manager.
• Cultural Diversity:know about cultural competence, health concerns of different cultural groups Nurses negative and positive responses.
Unit V, VI, VII (10 questions)
• Role of Epidemiology: disease reporting, epidemiological terms (incidence vs prevalence, mortality, morbidiy, etc)
• Know types of immunity, understand drug resistance; know types of transmission
• Patient education on communicable diseases such as mono, croup, and lice
• Disaster preparedness – purpose of mock drills
Unit VIII, IX, X (12 questions)
• Violence: types (ex.elder, domestic, physical, emotional, dating) risks for violence, gang affiliation
• Homelessness:  contributing factors; common health care problems by age; ethics of care; priority interventions
• Rural nursingchallanges
• Home health/Hospice:  plan of care
Unit XI, XII, XIII, XIV (29 questions)
• Family nursing:  dysfunctional vs. healthy family characteristic, family system boundaries/styles, cultural families
• Senior care:  ageism, medications that should be avoided by the elderly, safety, risk for abuse, goals of health care, creatinine clearance (math) and decision making, difference in symptoms of illness
• Women and Men’s health:  Cardiovascular risk factors; cancer, screening tools & prevention; issues with the homosexual/ LGBT client; BMI calculation (math); women’s research
• Occupation health nursing:  ergonomics
• Adolescent/children’s health/school nursing:  Suicide interventions; medication administration in schools; goals of school health, teenage pregnancy and associated problems, prenatal care, teenage sexuality issues; assessment priorities
• Correctional Nursingchallenges facing correctional nurses;epidemic of incarceration
Review primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. This may apply to all units.
There will be math calculations – BMI, Creatinine Clearance (both formulas will be provided within the test question)


Pharm II Final on Wednesday
 
List of drugs for units 9 & 10 - final.
Antineoplastic drugs:
Cytokines- interferon alfa-2a
Immune modulators- cyclosporine
Anti-angiogenic- thalidomide
Antimetabolites- 5-fluorouracil (5-FU
Mitotic Inhibitors- vincristine, etoposide, paclitaxel
Camptothecines- topotecan
Alkylating agent- cyclophosphamide
Nitrosureas- carmustine
Antitumor antibodies- doxorubicin
Hormones and antagonist- tamoxifen
Drugs used to control pain /inflammation
Tumor necrosis factor- etanercept
Morphine, fentanyl, hydromophone
Oxycodone, oxycontin, tramadol
Narcotic antagonist- naloxone
Serotonin-selective agonist- sumatriptan-“triptans”


Medical-Surgical 2 Final on Monday.