Microbiology study group spring 2009

NewGoalRN · Jan 11, 2009

I went back and read the Micro thread for the Fall 2008 semester on this site and it was just filled with useful information and sites. I found this site and I have listened to the first podcasts. It is a great resource, simple, easly to follow and it jives with my notes from Funke, Case, Tortora's Intro to Microbiology textbook that i'm using. Check it out, a great resource.

My first official lecture starts Monday because the first class last Wed was just introductions, test taking strategies, syllabi handouts etc.

I've read the powerpoints for chapters 1, 3, 4 already and just reviewed chapt 1 and 4 again tonight. Concepts are what are microorganisms, the four/five groups and their characteristics i.e Bacteria, Fungi, Viruses, Protozoa etc, Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes and their characteristics, the history of microbiology ie. Leuweenhoek, Pasteur, Koch, etc, Sponateous Generation theory, Biogenesis theory, Germ theory, Chemotherapy, etc

http://skywalker.cochise.edu/ilinc/bio205henrickson/ (Powerpoint presentations with audio. Very helpful. Followed my course outline quite a bit, although not completely. I listened to them and watched on my computer using Windows Media player. I have heard they are also on iTunes, but I don't have an iTunes account.)

Lennonninja, MSN, APRN, NP · Jan 11, 2009

I took Micro last semester and I enjoyed it a lot really. You should make sure that you know the difference between Gram positive and Gram negative like the back of your hand. And what really helped for me was figuring out ways to relate the topics to real life because it made it much easier to remember. And when you're in lab and you have to do unknowns, do more than one Gram stain for each unknown! More than a few of my classmates ended up missing their unknowns because of an incorrect Gram stain at the first step. One of my unknowns I had to do 4 Gram stains on it before I felt okay about going on to the next step!

Isitpossible, LPN, LVN · Jan 11, 2009

thanks for that site newgoal...very helpful!! i have to use PDF format, my computer is sooo old.....but it better than nothing....

luvnursing23 · Jan 11, 2009

count me in also, Im continuing to get my RN and this is last class before clinicals.

CHERY BLOSSOM · Jan 12, 2009

I am all for this one .........my class is online with miami dade college and it is a 16- week course good luck......kit.....

cara922 · Jan 12, 2009

me too.... my clinical rotations start in May.

count me in also, Im continuing to get my RN and this is last class before clinicals.

Tweety-Bird20 · Jan 12, 2009

That sounds good.... Count me in....

afranklin · Jan 12, 2009

please count me in:)!!!

AZ_LPN_8_26_13 · Jan 12, 2009

Just wanted to Start a study group for spring semester .I thought it will also be fun to give pop questions for us to make up from our classes and answer to help us learn more. Hope to hear from u guys

I will be taking microbiology as a corec in spring '09 (starts next week for me actually) while I'm waiting for my nursing school app to be processed. You can definitely count me in with your study group :wink2:

ladyscorpian14 · Jan 13, 2009

Class was ok yesterday my teacher is ok but I hate teachers that use slides because I think the students don't put in enough time to read the book and have discussions in class because they know she's going to have the slides. And I love classes where the exam counts more because then they have to do more stuff from the book.

I'm twenty but non- tradtional I don't have alot of time to do extra stuff like other students I work fulltime like some teachers want you to go to events outside of class for class that is not at school. We also made a study group for class which is great. I guess I'm just having the first day blues:bluecry1:

AZ_LPN_8_26_13 · Jan 13, 2009

Class was ok yesterday my teacher is ok but I hate teachers that use slides because I think the students don't put in enough time to read the book and have discussions in class because they know she's going to have the slides. And I love classes where the exam counts more because then they have to do more stuff from the book.
I'm twenty but non- tradtional I don't have alot of time to do extra stuff like other students I work fulltime like some teachers want you to go to events outside of class for class that is not at school. We also made a study group for class which is great. I guess I'm just having the first day blues:bluecry1:

We start classes where I am next week - next Wednesday is when my first microbiology class meets. Yeah, I know what you mean. Some teachers go through the powerpoint slides so fast that it's hard to take notes, etc. what I have done (this worked for me with 2 semesters of anatomy & physiology) is I was actually able to print out the instructors powerpoint slide show as a PDF file. I did it so that you got two slides to a page so that they were large enough to see and read. Then I three-hole punched them and put them in my notebook. When in class I would follow along with the slide show and take notes right on the pages I had printed out. This worked out OK for me - I also purchased the book and read that too, although she didn't require that we buy it. I ended up getting a B both semesters.

I will have a different instructor for micro, and from what I've heard she doesn't require or recommend a book at all, because she has her own handouts, and considers textbooks too expensive for nursing students to have to buy. I don't know if her lectures will be with powerpoint slides or not. Some instructors do this better than others, some avoid it entirely. This sounds sort of odd, but some of the most technophobic instructors I've had were from the mathematics department. You wouldn't think that this would be the case. Had one math instructor who didn't want to write problems out on the board because they were this dry-erase stuff and she was allergic to the fumes the markers gave off. She could have used an overhead projector with prepared overlays, or some sort of slide show presentation, or any number of things but didn't. Not going to complain too much because I ended up getting an A in the class.

Sometimes taking notes can be tricky from profs that use slides - ask them to go back to slide # whatever if you missed something or are somewhat shaky still on something - that's one of the benefits of using them. Its easier to go back to an exact point and review something.

Good luck with your micro :typing

AZ_LPN_8_26_13 · Jan 13, 2009

I know what you mean about the outside of class thing too - I work full time 40+ hrs in addition to school plus a family home life, so I really don't have a lot of time to meet outside of class for those type of projects either. My micro class will be in the evenings and I have a feeling it will be a lot of fellow non-trad students, single parents, etc. so maybe we won't have too much of that. Some here seem oblivious to the fact that some of us have limited time on campus and outside of class - makes things like group projects where you have to actually meet outside of class harder - just the logistics of it all - some people have to actually commute like an hour just to get to school....

My advice to you in this regard is to try and find a fellow classmate who might be in a similar situation that you can meet somewhere occasionally outside of class, and that you can e-mail and IM on the times that you can't. I had a powerpoint presentation that I had to give in a class last semester where we had to form groups, meet outside of class etc. We ended up doing most of our communication and work via e-mail and file attachments, and would meet mostly right before and right after class. We ended up getting an A on it, but we never did actually meet that much outside of class or off campus.