[nurz2be]

If I might inject a thought here on medical terminology books. I have a series of books produced by Stedman's. They are literally books by specialty like one book is Cardiology, one is ENT, one is Orthopaedic, and so on, anyways, these books are literally hundreds of pages of words associated with those Specialties. There are used ones you can find on Ebay or halfpricebooks.com for 10-20 dollars a piece. They are books generally used by medical transcriptionists, but who knows terminology better than those who have to type it and hear it everyday.

Good luck

[Daytonite]

These sites have listings of commonly used abbreviations associated with the administration of medications:

• http://www.iue.edu/academic/nursing/...ons%202004.pdf
• http://www.guilfordcenter.com/provid...min_abbrev.pdf
• http://www.mhcd.org/Training/QMAPAbbreviations.pdf
• http://www.enotes.com/nursing-encycl...ion-medication

[♪♫ in my ♥]

Here's a website that relates popular/common terms with medical/technical terms. It's essentially a thesaurus.

For example, if you browse under "P" for "pain in a joint," you'll find the word "arthralgia."

It's not just in English but 8 other languages, as well.

http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/EN/lijst.html

[sharona97]

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[Idgy20004]

I'm starting my BSN program the first week of January & am worried about learning all the terminology. Thank you to everyone who has posted helpful websites!

[jr8456]

Hi Idgy20004, I'm going into my last semester BSN RN program in January. I just wanted to let you know that you will be picking up the terminology while going through your classes. It would benefit you to know the basics before the program by googling "medical terminology". Hope that helps!!

[Daytonite]

Originally Posted by jr8456

Hi Idgy20004, I'm going into my last semester BSN RN program in January. I just wanted to let you know that you will be picking up the terminology while going through your classes. It would benefit you to know the basics before the program by googling "medical terminology". Hope that helps!!

Websites for medical terminology tutorials are already posted on this thread. See post #20.

[Idgy20004]

Thank You jr8456 for the good advice. I actually just got a copy of Ehrlich's medical terminology today, which is recommended by my school. It looks like it is well laid out.

[Franny2332]

Most nursing and/or medical terminology comes with learning the course work of a specialty. The book you have obtained, along with the prudent asking of questions, should give you all you need for a BSN program. Please do not over-obsess about this. Congratulations for getting in the program, BTW!
You just keep an open mind and never be afraid to ask questions about what you need to know or what is unclear (as in the lecture). Some may laugh; to them I only said it once : "At least I am not afraid to ask what you are all wanting to know and don't. Only fools suffer quietly."
Right back atcha!
Franny

[soon2bpractical]

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