ø¤º°* Medical Microbiology Winter 2006 Club*°º¤ø

[kayel]

okay, people! who is with me on this one? i am feeling a little nervous about all those slides! i'm looking forward to meeting everyone in this course!

i will gather up any useful sites i find in the last med micro club and elsewhere and put them in this post!

here's a start ..

some sites from fall 05 club:

• microbes in sickness and in health (niaid)
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/microbes.htm
  
• microbelibrary (american society for microbiology)
  http://www.microbelibrary.org/index.asp
  
• microbes.info
  http://www.microbes.info/index.html
  
• "the grapes of staph" -- doc kaiser's microbiology website http://student.ccbcmd.edu/~gkaiser/goshp.html
  
• "cells alive"
  http://www.cellsalive.com/
  
• parasites and parasitological resources
  http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/home.html
  
• fun2care's micro quizzes
  http://www.nursingjourney.com/quizzes.html
  
• micro e-guide
  http://www.microeguide.com/toc_safe_frame.htm
  
• university of hawaii microbiology faculty site
  http://www2.hawaii.edu/~johnb/micro/index.html
  
• photo gallery of bacterial pathogens
  http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/3504/gallery.htm
  
• nikon microscopyu
  http://www.microscopyu.com/sitemap.html
  
• the gram stain
  http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/video/gram.html
  

• biol 230 microbiology lecture guide unit 1

  
  http://www.cat.cc.md.us/courses/bio141/lecguide/unit1/index.html
  

• indoor fungus resources
  http://www.dehs.umn.edu/iaq/fungus/pictures.html
  
• microbiology articles
  http://bio.classes.ucsc.edu/bio119/winter04/webpgs_papers.htm
  
• richland college, lab procedures manual
  http://www.rlc.dcccd.edu/mathsci/reynolds/micro/lab_manual/toc.html

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Haven't been to the site in ages! Just wanted to update you all and let you know the I am finally understanding micro and have been able to bring my grade to an A.

[Kathyz]

I was wondering where you were.

Congratulations on your high grade! Keep up the great work.

[stpauligirl]

Haven't been to the site in ages! Just wanted to update you all and let you know the I am finally understanding micro and have been able to bring my grade to an A.

That's wonderful News! Great to see you and keep up the good work. I am making an A also....it's a hard class but the teacher is fantastic

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Thanks Kathy and Stpaulilgirl! Micro with nursing school has been a tough cookie thus far but I am not letting it beat me though....

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

That's wonderful News! Great to see you and keep up the good work. I am making an A also....it's a hard class but the teacher is fantastic

Congratulations! I have six more weeks to go and counting

Keep up the wonderful work..........it does pay off!

[ChristineN, BSN, RN]

I'm glad to hear that some of you all are surviving (and excelling) in micro!

[stpauligirl]

Congratulations! I have six more weeks to go and counting

Keep up the wonderful work..........it does pay off!

I may go slow but at least I get A's in the prerequisites on the first try! Next spring will be my time to apply to nursing school

You are doing very well considering all the other classes that you are taking!

[laborndeliverynurse]

Yay! I did my first Gram Stain friday in lab. I was happy my professpr saved mine to use as an example. I wasnt for sure how well I would like this class. However it has turned out to be most interesting. Its actually been somewhat fun hmp lets not get started on dimensional analysis of pharmacodynamics lol. Since Im new here I might wanna give up some info eh. I am a 25 years old mother of a 2 year old son. I have been a LPN for the past 6 years ( this september) Worked the ER for a few and for WV State of Corrections, I ended up with pre eclampsia during my pregnancy and quit the er. I have been with the State of Corrections now for a little over 4 years. I am currently going to UC ( University of Charleston ) for the one year transistion program to RN.

~~Tori~~

[Elizabeth Hanes, BSN, RN]

Somebody tell me everything's going to be all right. :uhoh21:

I got my latest micro test back today and... scored an 88. So far, my class average is 85.

I came into this class feeling like I really needed an "A" so that I wouldn't further drag down my cumulative 3.7 gpa. If my gpa slides downwards to a 3.5, am I still going to get into nursing school??

Sigh.

[ChristineN, BSN, RN]

Somebody tell me everything's going to be all right. :uhoh21:

I got my latest micro test back today and... scored an 88. So far, my class average is 85.

I came into this class feeling like I really needed an "A" so that I wouldn't further drag down my cumulative 3.7 gpa. If my gpa slides downwards to a 3.5, am I still going to get into nursing school??

Sigh.

I'm sorry to hear you aren't doing as well as you'd like. Have you talked to your instructor for advice?

About getting into nursing school, it really would depend on how competitive it is where you are.

[Elizabeth Hanes, BSN, RN]

Thanks for the sympathy.

Well, after my little pity party, I projected my potential final grade, if I start doing slightly better on the quizzes and continue to do slightly better (i.e.: two extra points per test) on the tests, and I discover I can still make an A or at least an A- for the course.

So, I guess the moral is: study. Study some more. Study again.

[stpauligirl]

AAAAaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh.....we have a test coming up on Tuesday mainly about viral and bacterial infections. Name, characteristics etc.....tons of them!!!!!! Now it's almost as bad as being in A&P....MEMORIZATION!

Just have to vent it's driving me crazy...staphylococcus this, streptococcus that, you get the picture

Enuff already!!!!!!! :smackingf