E-mail Me blatinis@kumc.edu
E-mail Me blatinis@kumc.edu
8/31/04. The articles are now available! The password to access them is in the threaded discussion. Read the directions on the Readings page on how to get to them.
8/25/04 The journal articles are not yet available for the readings in week 2. Check here to see when they are ready.
8/24/04 It's been very interesting reading all of your introductions. Yes, the RN/BSN-do have text books. They are the same as 835. Somehow there was a misunderstanding about listing the texts on both courses. The required texts are Johnson et al and Beckman. The current 5 Minute Medical Consult is helpful also.
My intro: I have been an ob nurse for decades! I practice as an OB-GYN (Women's Health) NP and a Family Nurse Practitioner. I have two practice sites. One is at St John Medical Plaza in Leavenworth with an Internal Medicine MD. The other is at SastunCenter with a Family Medicine MD. This is a very interesting Integrative Medicine office. The web address is SastunCenter.com. In the internal medicine clinic I am considered way left of center and at Sastun Center I am considered way right of center. It is often very disconcerting, but interesting. This summer my youngest child came on faculty as a rheumatologist in the School of Medicine! He has 4 children, also. Time really flies. It seems like such a short time ago that he was born at KUMC and worked as a scrub tech in the OR at KUMC! My daughters are teachers and my other son is a Pacific Rim archeologist who lives in Singapore and works in Cambodia. My husband is a dentist and has just sold his practice to a young man younger than any of our children. He will work with him until his license expires the end of November 04.
We were in Greece in the spring of 03 so we're really enjoying the Olympics and saying "We were there!" We're going to Costa Rica in January 05 so we need to practice our Spanish. We spend our time ballroom dancing--a lot. We dance at least 5 night a week-for a few hours. We also jog and bicycle and hike.
Let me know if you have any questions. I'll get your email address on as a group and probably use email more than the "News" section. BLB
8/14/04 The Threaded Discussion Leadership assignments have been made. Be sure and check the calendar for your assignment. Also, please email me to tell me what email address you would like for me to use to contact you. I'm glad to have each one of you in the course. BLB
Textbook suggestions. You have the general OB-GYN text in the
Beckmann book. I wouldn't get any other except the 2004 or 2005 Minute Consult
OR another one like it such as Ferri's 2004 Clinical Advisor. Someone may have a
old one they would give to you or loan to you. If you want me to, I can
put one on reserve in the library. Let me know. Both of these
include the codes and drug suggestions AND differential diagnoses. The Monthly
Prescribing Index is put out each month and is VERY helpful in prescribing and
most doctors offices will have an old one around that they would let you have.
Nurse Practitioners get one free quarterly. It is called the Nurse Practitioner
Prescribing Index. BUT, if you have a PDA, the best is EpocratesRX that is a
free download on the internet and it updates everytime you hotsync with your
computer. I think it is epocrates.com, but if you put in epocrates on your
search, it will find it.
7/28/04. Welcome!!! Please enter the Threaded Discussion and introduce yourself. The RN-BSN/MSN course Nurs 410 and the MSN course Nrsg 835 are being taught in tandum. The objectives, course description and requirements of the two courses are the same, but the RN-BSN/MSN students will do fewer case studies and have different Threaded Discussion requirements. Otherwise, we will all be working together. Log on and introduce yourself anytime. Even though there are different sections, don't hesitate to read the other section. Let me know if you want to use a different email address than the KUMC address that I have. BLB
E-mail Me blatinis@kumc.edu