whew almost done!

Enough ranting about MyNursingLab.  I have decided that the topic now bores me.  It's obvious that whoever created it has no desire to fix whatever is broken. They only want to make the new version and charge people even more money for garbage.   Unless students wise up and do anything about it, they will simply have to consent to their money being taken by people who provide sub-standard quality.  If that's the way the students want it, that's how it's going to stay.

On to better things... today marks the last Performance Checklist in my Nursing Assessment Class.
It is a LONG checklist, but it's good to know that by tonight I will be free to just study for the final which is a month away.

For those interested in the checklists that we use in the head to toe assessment, I've provided links below. Ask me for stuff if you are interested.

I would post my video here, but for purposes of maintaining confidentiality, I will only provide it to students who want to see it.  A password will be required to view the video and I will only post it temporarily.

I did manage to find some good websites and youtube videos about nursing assessments: I will provide links here in the near future (translation: maybe next week or so).

So far, this has been an overall positive experience, occasionally, I have enjoyed it, except for the griping about MyNursingLab.  I might even have to consider taking a real pharmacology class because now I am really confused with this darn Adams book.  And to think that I expected and really wanted it to be a good experience, it has left a bad taste in my mouth.  I love pharmacology and really enjoy learning about drugs and their effects on physiology, since after all, I am a physio major and immensely enjoyed physiology.  If I had the money and didn't have to earn a living, I would get my PhD in Physiology except you can't make $$ on that these days unless you have published a zillion papers and become someone's research slave for about 6-10 yrs.    If money were no object, that's what I would do, but then reality kicks in... I want my kids to go to college, be high achievers in high school and also be responsible, caring and thoughtful individuals, so it is no longer about what I want.

I would give anything to be able to also stay home w/ the kids and teach them things and devote a lot of time to developing their science knowledge, encouraging math skills and also encouraging reading.  I try to do what I can, and have to rely on school to do the rest.  Once again, if money were no object -- I'd spend most of my life doing just that.

The distance learning program at Indiana State University is not as good as actually attending classes, but given my situation, it is a darn good program that I think has the potential to help many LVNs get their BSN degrees.  In so many ways, I am thankful to have found this program.  I hope I will be able to finish the 11 classes that I need to finish.

My Nursing Lab - the saga continues

I received an email last week from My Nursing Lab. I just about fell over in my chair when I read the email. They addressed me as "Professor", and asked if I would be interested in reviewing the next version of My Nursing Lab.

Is this a joke? I thought...I was even madder than I could ever imagine myself to be.  The only thing I had done was try to contact them several times through the feedback link of their website, and now suddenly I am a professor?  LOL

Anyway, I responded that I was not a professor -- just a student who had access to more than one textbook, hence being able to pinpoint which part of their textbook & accompanying software was incorrect.  It certainly wasn't that hard.

Then it turned into a business proposition -- except I could not accept the offer because no way was I going to spend time looking at that stuff when I know that it makes me sooooo mad to think that they would be selling a product that had more errors than swiss cheese has holes.

HA!

Oh well -- I pointed out their errors, told them to go fix it and not be in such a rush to charge money next time.  We'll see if they listen...

oh joy

More chapters to deal with in this Pharmacology for Nurses 2nd edition book by Adams, Holland and Bostwick.   If this is truly the quality of the textbooks these days, heaven help us all. No wonder health care is in such disarray.

I read another article, which is even scarier -- it talks about all the flawed statistics that scientists use.  Mind you, the method that ALL of the so-called "Evidence-Based" medicine appears to be banking on is based on hypothesis testing.

What if all the stuff that is being propagated as "good medicine" is all wrong.

???more mind-boggling stuff from Pearson/Prentice Hall...

You be the judge...here's another classic faux pas from Pearson/My Nursing Lab

I don't know about you, but if I had Alzheimer's, I would definitely NOT want improvement in my memory loss....  I woud only want improvement in my memory, but not my memory loss.    I would like for my memory loss to stay lost...

Chap 20 page 270 says:

"Donepezil and memantine are approved for the treatment of progressive AD and are marketed under the brand name Aricept."

Uh....sorry, but Aricept is made by Eisai, marketed by Pfizer.  Memantine is made by Forest Pharmaceuticals.  But only in the world of Pearson and Prentice Hall is there a combination drug of these 2, marketed under the trade name Aricept, and I bet they will improve your memory loss. 

Good grief -- this next one has 3 typos in the same question:

The best part was reading "I should not take this drug if YOU have liver disease"....! 

And yet another:

I suppose nobody could decide about the ibuprofen.

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