Respiratory Nursing

Clinicals this weekend in many ways restored my desire to be a nurse.  I think it had a lot to do with my clinical instructor.  She was mean, nice, helpfull . . . you get the picture.  She drilled us about our patients, their conditions, and the meds they were on, but at the same time she treated us like adults and allowed us to see many procedures and found opportunities to see procedures, practice skills etc.  Sadly, clinical instructors as good as her are hard to come by but on the up note this was the first time in nearly two months that I was excited to be in nursing school.

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Cardiac Cycle Animation

Learning the cardiac cycle is essential to preforming well in nursing school and in working as a professional nurse.  Below are a few links to help learn the cardiac cycle.  There are some animations on the cardiac cycle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGlFBzaTuoI&feature=related                           

Below is a link to the best series of videos that I have found.  It is by a professor named Dr. Najeeb and he uses them in his USMLE prep course.  Search through his youtube page to find many other helpful videos.  This series of 8 videos on the cardiac cycle should leave you with a very complete understanding.  He provides his own animations of the cardiac cycle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbivIaFPoQI