1. NURSING 222 MATERNAL/NEWBORN WELCOME Spring 2013

2. COURSE OUTLINE AND CLASS CONTENT The Course Outline for Nursing 222 is on the nursing website as well as the NRS 222 Supplement. It is expected that you will complete the chapter readings before the first lecture. You will observe in the first Power Point presentation that there is a comprehensive review of Female/Fetal A&P and Reproduction.

3. COURSE OUTLINE AND CLASS CONTENT This content will not be in Quiz I but it is expected that you will answer the questions at the end of the review and be prepared to discuss your answers. This review will also be discussed on MERCER ONLINE with online students. “Land” students will be meeting Tuesday evenings from 5:30-8:30PM for lecture. The classroom will be announced before the first class. Please bring your clickers!

4. NURSING 222 SUPPLEMENT MANUAL The Nursing 222 supplement is on the website so you may download it’s contents. Please bring the supplement manual to lecture and clinical with you each week. We will be utilizing much of the material included in the manual.

5. THE NURSING 220 TEAM Toni Racioppo, MSN, CNS RN, Nursing 222 Coordinator Pat DeLongaig, CNM, MSN, RN, Adjunct Professor Gary Fassler, MSN, RN, Adjunct Professor

6. ANOTHER SEMESTER---CONTINUED SUCCESS Dress Code must be strictly enforced in the OB area. If your hair is longer than should length, it must be tied up and off your collar when in OB. Identification—Yes, please wear your ID to class and while on campus! Signing your forms from the handbook Please hand these forms in the first day of class Academic integrity--review Guidelines for testing--review

7. COMPUTER CLASSES You will receive your clinical institution’s general electronic medical record training in the second five week session. When you enter your OB clinical at UMCP or RWJ, you will be oriented to their individual form of electronic medical recording specific to the OB area.

8. CLINICAL Please read the chapters related to the first lecture before your clinical experience. For students at RWJ, please meet your clinical instructor in the lobby closest to the Maternity pavilion (near the emergency department).

9. CLINICAL For students at UMCP, we will also meet in the lobby. Also please bring in your registration number and make and model of your car for a parking permit. You will obtain an ID on the first day of clinical. If you have a UMCP ID, please bring it with you. Please do not bring large books, backpacks, or valuables. There is not an area where these can be stored safely.

10. CLINICAL Refer to the Student Handbook as to what you are expected to bring to your clinical experience. For those students at UMCP, I will send an e-mail requesting your scrub size. I will need this information by January 14 for Session I. For those at RWJ, scrubs will be given at clinical.

11. CELL PHONE USE PLEASE, CELL PHONES ARE NOT A PART OF YOUR CLINICAL EXPERIENCE! MANY HOSPITALS BAN THEIR USE BY STAFF. We follow the policies of the institution and the Nursing Program.

12. CELL PHONE USE THE INSTRUCTOR MAY ASK YOU TO LEAVE LECTURE OR CLINICAL IF CELL PHONE USE IS OBSERVED. An action plan will be initiated. THIS MEANS CELL PHONES ARE NOT TO BE ON YOUR PERSON. Please refer to Page 18 of the Student Handbook.

13. CELL PHONE USE CELL PHONES ARE NOT ALLOWED IN LECTURE. THIS MEANS THEY ARE NOT ON YOUR DESK OR ON YOUR LAP BUT PUT AWAY AND OFF. MY EXPECTATION IS THAT YOU WILL DEMONSTRATE PROFESSIONAL, COURTEOUS, AND RESPECTFUL BEHAVIOR TO YOUR COLLEAGUES AND YOUR INSTRUCTOR. PLEASE READ THE POLICY IN YOUR STUDENT HANDBOOK RELATED TO CELL PHONE USE.

14. HESI OB EXAM YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO TAKE THE OB EXAM PROVIDED BY HESI. DATES: Session I Friday, February 22, 2013 Session II Friday April 5, 2013 Session III Friday, May 10, 2013 ROOM TO BE ANNOUNCED All HESI Exams given after Final Exam

15. MCCC STUDENT E-MAIL Communication will be through the Mercer E-Mail system. Please check your email frequently. This is how the Nursing 222 team will primarily communicate updates and changes.

16. ATTENDANCE Refer to page 20 0f the Student Handbook about attendance. If you are going to be absent or late either to lecture or clinical, please call or e-mail your instructor (not a fellow classmate) before class.

17. MID-TERM EXAM DATES THE MID-TERM EXAM WILL BE GIVEN AT THE BEGINNING OF LECTURE 3. DATES: Session I Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Session II Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Session III Tuesday, April 23, 2013

18. FINAL EXAM DATES THE FINAL EXAM WILL BE GIVEN THE FRIDAY AFTER LECTURE 5 IN NURSING 222 DATES: Session I Friday, February 22, 2013 Session II Friday, April 5, 2013 Session III Friday, May 10, 2013 All exams start at 5:30PM

19. JOINING THE SNA The Student Nurses Association has recently formed at the college and the membership is growing. Please join your peers and learn the benefits of being a member of this dynamic organization. I will have applications on the first day of class.