Mnemonics and Memory Aids

These are links I have to mnemonics for a variety of different medical/anatomy/nursing things. You always have the option of making up your own as you are more likely to remember your own. And, you can make your own as nonsensical or nasty as you like and no one else has to know! Medical students are notorius for coming up with some pretty skanky stuff.

http://allnurses.com/forums/f205/mnemonics-memory-aids-146408.html

http://medicine.creighton.edu/OME/Students/Study.html- has listing of medical mnemonics at lower half of page

http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/

http://www.perfectdoctors.com/mnemonics.htm

http://extremish.com/

http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/

12 Cranial Nerve
On old olympus's treeless top a Finn and a German viewed a hop
olfactory
optic
oculomotor
trochlear
trigeminal opthalmic branch, maxillary, mandibular branch
abducens
facial
auditory
glossopharyngeal
vagus
accessory
hypoglossal

hope it can help!

When trying to figure out a nursing diagnosis, remember this :

A Nice Delicious PIE

A= Assessment

ND = Nursing diagnosis

P= Plan

I= Interventions

E= Evaluation

Learning the Systems of the Body?

MR DICE RUNS

M= Muscle
R= Respiratory

D=Digestive
I= Integumentary
C= Circulatory
E= Endocrine

R= Reproductive
U= Urinary
N= Nervous
S= Skeletal

Trouble figuring out which eye is which?

OS is left eye

OD is the right eye

You can remember which one is the right eye (OD), because you can make the D into an R - You just have to draw to stick legs on the bottom of the D. Write it down on paper, you'll see what I mean (it's hard to show you when all I can do is type)

S/S of Hyponatremia

S tupor/coma
A norexia, N&V
L ethargy
T endon reflexes decreased

L imp muscles (weakness)
O rthostatic hypotension
S eizures/headache
S tomach cramping

Could someone please explain? Thanks!

R Respiratory

O Opposite

ph > PCO2 < Alkalosis
ph < PCO2 > Acidosis

M Metabolic

E Equal

ph> HCO3 > Alkalosis
ph< HC03 < Acidosis


Hope this helps to explain . Also if it is a repiratory problem co2 levels are going to be off and if it is a metabolic problem you HCO3 levels are going to be off.

Thanks, Kristi!

Definitely helps--I'm making index cards on some of these to help me prepare for NCLEX.