Broward College Central Campus January 2011

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this thread was created for those attending broward college central campus in january 2011!!

lets all communicate, get organized, share ideas, and support one another!

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hahaha it's okay. i'm just glad for it. ugh. one day late, and i would have been talking about suing my doctor's office. that would have been no fun. :/

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anyone know what time we can drop off our documents until? guesing they're closed for the day at this point...

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also, what room in building 8? that's kind of a big building...

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also, what room in building 8? that's kind of a big building...

When you go into bldg 8, right as you walk in, you're going to see a sign with a red arrow pointing to the right that'll say nursing documents turn in or something like that. So you'll follow the arrow and walk down that hallway and at the end of that hallway you'll see 3 cubicles, 2 on the left and one big one on the right, those ladies are the ones you're going to turn your stuff into. I gave my stuff to the lady in the big cubicle to the right and the lady in the first cubicle to the left turned out to be the notary so they have you doing like 4 different things at a time because the lady that I turned my stuff into went through everything right then and there. She also had me sign something and she gave me something else, like a receipt. She'll also tell you that a nurse is going to go through your health docs and contact you if there's any issues. Oh, and she also has a booklist with all the books we need for the first semester highlighted, that way we know what can wait and what can't. Copies of the booklist will be on the wall so you can copy what she has underlined unless you remember to bring your own. Hope this helps a bit : )

So, I have a question of my own...is anyone else having financial aid issues? Like does your schedule still say you owe like 1500 dollars and financial aid hasn't kicked in? I've gone to the fin aid office like 3 times and they still can't get it right. Frustrated is an understatement...:uhoh3:

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Specializes in Telemetry, NICU.
The older gentleman that works the Central campus bookstore showed me what's in the lab kit. It's just a TON of gauze, bandages, etc. Basically, it looks like an assortment of all the disposable stuff we'll need to treat patients. It's $120 and it might be worth it just to pay for it all put together instead of hunting down every item in it and putting it together piece by innumberable piece.

The nursing Program at Central FORCES you to buy this bookbag, your suppost to have it the first week of lab. They will check your receipt. They put alot of things in this bookbag that ur going to get in the lab itself from them, so you will find you have wasted ur money buying the bookbag, but have to because THEY want you to. You only use the IV tubing, because for return demo in Process 2 you need to bring it with you, and the foley kit. THATS IT!! $120 dollars later. I still have mine, and its FULL of stuff I didnt use. Go figure.

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Specializes in Telemetry, NICU.

For those of you who are Process 1 Students: The following is the Email Professor K" sent us in 2008 when i started BC Central Campus Nursing.

Broward College

NUR 1020: Fundamentals of Nursing I

Web-Enhanced

Fall, August 2008

Reference

Mandatory Course Meeting Dates

Orientation will be scheduled during class time. Classes will begin on Monday, August 18, 2008 at 9:00 am at Central Campus, Building 8 room 222. The first day of class is mandatory, any student absent will not be permitted to continue in the course.

Faculty Introduction

This course is taught by Jennifer Kantis. Professor Kantis received her AS degree in Nursing from Broward Community College and her BSN in Nursing from Florida Atlantic University. In addition, she received an MSN in Nursing Education and a Post Master’s as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner from Florida Atlantic University. She has a clinical and educator background. Her clinical experience extends to Adult med/surg., Telemetry and the Operating room. She is certified and currently works as a Family Nurse Practitioner.

She currently teaches Nursing Process 1 and 2, Trends and a Peri-operative course. In the past, she has been an adjunct faculty for Florida Atlantic University in their Nursing Department.

Course Description

A theoretical course for the beginning nursing student. Nursing process provides the student with the fundamentals of nursing including such basic skills as health assessment, legal aspects of nursing practice, communication and documentation techniques, asepsis, the nursing process, caring for patients having special procedures or specimen collection, and the role of the nurse as a member of the health care team. This course also includes explanation of specific physiological and psychological human needs as hygiene, safety, sleep and rest, sensory, grief and loss, and self-concept and the nurse’s role in assisting a person meet these needs, while sensitive to cultural diversity, human dignity, and developmental progression.

Methods of Instruction

This is a 3-credit hour course which will be delivered via face to face lecture. A three credit hour course meets two times each week (during a 8 week term) for a total of 6 hours per week or 48 hours per term. We will meet on Monday & Fridays from 9:00 to 12:00. You will engage in structured classroom setting and online activities for the remainder of the class time. Two modular examinations and one comprehensive final will be given on campus and are mandatory.

Learning Outcomes

1. Communicate effectively and with cultural sensitivity when interacting with patients and members of the healthcare team during the provision of care of patients with health alterations of the genitourinary, gastrointestinal, and endocrine systems.

2. Develop a holistic plan of care based on the nursing process as a systematic method to critically think and make decisions to provide safe and effective care to adult patients experiencing health alterations of genitourinary, gastrointestinal, and endocrine systems.

3. Incorporate knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to promote health and plan care for patients with health alterations of the genitourinary, gastrointestinal, and endocrine systems.

4. Participate in collaborative practice with members of the healthcare team while implementing care to adults with health alterations of the genitourinary, gastrointestinal, and endocrine systems

5. Practice within the scope of the legal definition of the nursing while incorporating ethical principles to protect human rights for patients experiencing health alterations of the genitourinary, gastrointestinal, and endocrine systems

Students may review general outcomes from the BCC course outline for this course.

Course Requirements

Students who are new to e-learning should take BCC's online readiness evaluation.

Prerequisite(s): ENC 1101, BSC 1085 & 1085L, BSC 1086 & 1086L, CHM 1033

Co-requisite(s): APB 1600, MTB 1370, MCB 2013 & 2013L

Participating in a Web-based course requires basic computer skills. Students must be able to use a word processing program such as Microsoft word:

Type, cut, copy, and paste text

Delete and make changes to text

Create and organize files and folders

Create links

The student must be able to access the Internet and do the following

Create, edit, save, and send email

Attach files to email

Use a browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer to locate web sites

Download and upload files

Create links

All students should review BCC's current hardware and software requirements to make sure that their computer(s) meet BCC standards.

include attendance requirements and dates of on-campus tests

All students must obtain their BCC E-mail address. It is used for course login.

Students who are using Blackboard for the first time should visit BCC's Flexible Learning Page

Course Materials

BCC modules and nursing student handbook

NUR 1020 & 1210L Clinical Nursing Module by Jennifer Kantis

Castillo, Strategies, Techniques, and Approaches to Thinking: Case Studies in Clinical Nursing, 3rd ed.

Jarvis, Pocket Companion for Physical Examination & Health Assessment, 4th ed.

Nursing Skills Labs (NSCL) supply box packet (with paid receipt)

Perry & Potter, Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques 7th edition

Perry & Potter, Fundamentals of Nursing 6th edition

Taber’s or Mosby’s Dictionary (Student’s Choice)

All required materials may be purchased in the BCC bookstore. There is a Clinical Handout packet (NUR 1020L & 1210L) available for this course by Jennifer Kantis.

First Day Theory Assignment

Read Perry and Potter 7th edition, Chapters 1 to 6 for the first day of class. All powerpoints are listed under the home page in Blackboard.

How to Register for this Course

Students must be enrolled in the nursing program in order to take Fundamentals of Nursing I (NUR 1020). Approved students will registered for this course just as all other BCC courses. The department head does not register students for the online classes. To enroll students may go to otherwise, please refer them to: BCC's Student Online System. Students must pay for the course before they will be able to log into the course. There may be a delay of as much as 36 hours after paying, before their login will be activated.

Information Contact

Contact Jennifer Kantis for more information about this course. E-mail: [email protected]

How to Access this Course once you are Enrolled in this Course

1. Students Login themselves

Students who have registered and paid for the course will be able to log on through Blackboard 2 days prior to the first scheduled day of the course as designated in the course calendar. NUR1020 will not be available until this date. Attempts to go into the course earlier than this date will result in an "access denied" message. It s imperative, however, that students access the course on the first day of the class as there are assignments due the first few days of the course.

There may be a delay of up to 36 hours from when a students registers and pays before Blackboard login is activated.

Obtain BCC email user ID and PIN code before attempting to login to Blackboard.

Click on "ID Lookup" then enter your SS# (or INTL Student ID#) and PIN code (2 digit birth month and 2 digit year). Write down your email ID (not the @broward.edu). That's your Blackboard login.

Your Blackboard ID is the same as your BCC email user ID.

Your Blackboard password is the same as your BCC email PIN code.

3. Links to help students get connected to e-learning course(s) at BCC

BCC's E-Learning login page

E-learning login instruction page

Publisher access code help page

Contact the Helpdesk if you experience login difficulties.

Additional Information:

Clinical Information: NUR 1020L is the clinical portion of this course. The first week of clinical for this course is two days: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 and Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 8 a.m. meeting in FAU Building , LAN for everyone (including Tuesday and Wednesday students). Please wear your BCC uniform and bring your portfolio. The Homework Assignment is taken from the NUR 1020L & NUR 1210L Handout Packet from Jennifer Kantis; complete Units One and Two. Please check this site frequently for further information.

Please note that you will be doing (8) 12-hour shifts during this clinical rotation. The remaining 12-hours will be done in the nursing lab. You will be given a skills checklist that requires you come into lab to practice the prescribed skills. You must turn in this skills checklist to your clinical instructor by week 5. This will be explained further on the first campus lab day.

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Specializes in Telemetry, NICU.
My fundamentals book finally came today- yayyyyyyy! :) Now when to find the time to read it..hmm...

Still trying to get anyone to send a copy of Prof K's Nursing Process I syllabus, notes, powerpoints, anything we'll need; especially for the first exam. Tips too.

I posted the only thing I had from Professor K in my email. I dont have anything else from her class, there is sooooo much paperwork in the program I was going to be a hoarder if I kept it all.

The only tip I can give u is Read those chapters over and over and over. I would read each chapter 2 or 3 times. im not kidding. Dont try to memorize everything, these courses are not like that. Just seek to understand the disease processes, and Patient care. The questions are NCLEX style so get an NCLEX book that has content (saunders, its blue is a good one) they will tell u not to get one yet, but trust me, I wish I had it. And you NEEEDDDDDDDD to do the TEST SUCCESS and Davis" Fundamental Success these will help alot. Also try to read about Strategies on how to answer some of the Nclex style questions, Kaplan has some good test taking strategies on how to read the question and know what they are asking. Example: Maslows Hierarchy of needs, Patient safety, ABC's, etc..

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We have until 4 pm today to turn in our documents. Anyone else wait till the last day like my husband and I? (Not that we WANTED to, but we we FORCED to because of our terrible doctor's office.)

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Yay! Turned everything in! And turned in and paid for my son's registration at daycare.

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hi mnunez378, i didn't see the list with the books we'll need for the first semester. can you please post the ones that were highlighted?

thank you.

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hi mnunez378, i didn't see the list with the books we'll need for the first semester. can you please post the ones that were highlighted?

thank you.

hi, i'm sorry i'm posting this so late, it's just been a really busy day.

the highlighted books were:

(at the top of the booklist page)

broward college nursing modules and nursing student manual

handout packet for packet for each nursing course: campus and course specific

from the required section

castillo: strategies, techniques, and approaches to thinking: case studies in clinical nursing, 4th ed.

both perry and potter books: 1) fundamentals of nursing, 7th ed. with study guide and clinical companion and ebook

2) clinical nursing skills and techniques, 7th ed.

both hesi books: 1) evolve practice 2e 2) evolve case studies complete rn-2year version

pickar: dosage calculations: a ration and proportion approach, 3rd ed.

[b]from the recommended reading section[/b]

both nugent et al books: 1) fundamentals success 2) test success: test taking techniques for beginning nursing students, 4th ed.

(at the bottom of the page)

required hsc1149 pharmacology

deglin: davis drug guide for nurses 12th ed.

both lilley books: 1) parmacology apsects of nursing care, 6th ed. 2) pharmacology aspects of nursing care study guide, 6th ed.

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hi, i'm sorry i'm posting this so late, it's just been a really busy day.

the highlighted books were:

(at the top of the booklist page)

broward college nursing modules and nursing student manual

handout packet for packet for each nursing course: campus and course specific

from the required section

castillo: strategies, techniques, and approaches to thinking: case studies in clinical nursing, 4th ed.

both perry and potter books: 1) fundamentals of nursing, 7th ed. with study guide and clinical companion and ebook

2) clinical nursing skills and techniques, 7th ed.

both hesi books: 1) evolve practice 2e 2) evolve case studies complete rn-2year version

pickar: dosage calculations: a ration and proportion approach, 3rd ed.

[b]from the recommended reading section[/b]

both nugent et al books: 1) fundamentals success 2) test success: test taking techniques for beginning nursing students, 4th ed.

(at the bottom of the page)

required hsc1149 pharmacology

deglin: davis drug guide for nurses 12th ed.

both lilley books: 1) parmacology apsects of nursing care, 6th ed. 2) pharmacology aspects of nursing care study guide, 6th ed.

don't worry. you are just on time. thank you.

i'm not sure if i'll buy the pharmacology one because i heard the professor give us everything in powerpoint. i may buy if it is not too expensive. thank you a lot.

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