Showing posts with label Nursing Mneumonics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nursing Mneumonics. Show all posts
May 9, 2011
Brain Rap.......
(sent in by Dr. Linda Walsh, Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa) Well there you have - you've toured the CNS
From your spinal cord to your fine cortex
The brain is divided in 2 hemispheres
With 4 lobes in each - to help you move, see and hear
The meninges are the membranes that keep the brain from gettin' hurt
Don't squeeze the ventricles - CSF will start to squirt
The medulla oblongata makes your heart go tippy-tappy
The limbic system makes you mad, sad or happy
The cerebellum lets you walk without stumbling
And Broca's area - talk without fumbling
The reticular formation wakes you up from sleep
The hypothalamus tells you when to eat
The brain is neat!
The brain is cool!
The brain's my favorite thing in school!
But now its time, before my memory lapses
To talk about neurons and synapses.
The Dendrite mneumonic song........
Use your dendrites,
Use your dendrites,
To connect throughout your brain.
Take in info, analyze it,
Grow some new ones
Unrestrained.
Axons send out
Neurotransmitters
To the dendrites all around
Across the synapse
Jumps the impulse
New ideas can now abound.
Stimulation
Is what the brain needs
To make dendrites stretch and grow.
New connections
Make us smarter
In what we think and what we know.
Use your dendrites,
Use your dendrites,
To connect throughout your brain
Take in info, analyze it,
Grow some new ones
Unrestrained.
Use your dendrites,
To connect throughout your brain.
Take in info, analyze it,
Grow some new ones
Unrestrained.
Axons send out
Neurotransmitters
To the dendrites all around
Across the synapse
Jumps the impulse
New ideas can now abound.
Stimulation
Is what the brain needs
To make dendrites stretch and grow.
New connections
Make us smarter
In what we think and what we know.
Use your dendrites,
Use your dendrites,
To connect throughout your brain
Take in info, analyze it,
Grow some new ones
Unrestrained.
Take Me To The Liver.........
Take Me To The Liver
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I know why I need you like I do: All the lymph and plasma you'll bring me through. I'm a fat hitch-hiker who's afraid to get wet; If I could catch a ride with you, I'd be in your debt. I wanna go ... to the organ ... that will be my next host -- CHORUS: Take me to the liver; keep me out of water. Take me to the liver; keep me out of water. I don't know why this guy's diet's so bad; Think of all the healthy food he could have had. But it's my cheesecake he's been ingestin', And the next thing I know, well, I'm in the intestine. I wanna go ... to a gland: ... the one that weighs the most -- CHORUS |
Bind me, squeeze me, transport me, then release me.
But I can't. Yes you can.
No I can't. Yes you can.
Yes you can, yes you can, yes you can.... (Yes I can!)
But I can't. Yes you can.
No I can't. Yes you can.
Yes you can, yes you can, yes you can.... (Yes I can!)
I'll take you to the liver,
And I'll keep you out of water.
Yes, I'll take you to the liver,
And I'll keep you out of water.
And I'll keep you out of water.
Yes, I'll take you to the liver,
And I'll keep you out of water.
Don't let me out yet, or I'll form a plaque;
The last thing we need right now is a heart attack.
Twenty-seven carbons there in my frame;
Am I the biggest lipid you can name?
The last thing we need right now is a heart attack.
Twenty-seven carbons there in my frame;
Am I the biggest lipid you can name?
I wanna go ... to some cells ... where I'll be endocytosed --
CHORUS
REPEAT CHORUS
Veins Song..........
Veins
This parody written by Greg Crowther)
 | Veins -- cells and plasma flow through my veins, And they ain't the kind that move in the breeze. Whoa-oh, these veins of blood meet my transport needs, yeah. Veins -- every organ has its own veins Where it dumps its waste with a tiny splash. Whoa-oh, these veins of blood pick up the trash, yeah. You'd better believe it -- the heart pumps blood around, And the veins retrieve it so the work done by the heart is not in Vain -- cells and plasma flow through my veins, And they ain't the kind that move in the breeze. Whoa-oh, these veins of blood meet my transport needs, yeah. Now, when a tissue produces waste, It's not an issue, because the waste is swept away into the Veins -- cells and plasma flow through my veins, And they ain't the kind that move in the breeze. Whoa-oh, these veins of blood meet my transport needs, yeah. Veins. Veins of blood. Veins of blood. Veins of blood |
Do The Circulation from School House Rock............
Do The Circulation
from School House Rock
| There's a great new craze That's sweeping the nation Come on do the Circulation! It starts with your heart, What a great sensation, Come on do the Circulation! Out through your arteries, in through your veins, Your heart pumps your blood, then it does it again, So come on, everyone get it on, Everyone, the Circulation! So come on, everybody, Exercise your body for circulation! Circulation! Everybody form a circle now. (Uh-huh-huh) Circulation! Like your blood, you just start moving around Circulation! It's a function that's so out of sight And if your feet fall asleep then You're not circulating right. You got four heart parts to pump the blood (lub dub!) Yeah, that's circulation, Left and right ventricle, left and right atrium, Yeah, they do it, they circulate, They pump blood through your lungs for oxygen, And then your arteries take it through to your body And your veins bring the old blood back to be renewed. Circulation takes nutrition to your cells And gets rid of carbon dioxide and waste as well. Circulation, it's a function that's so out of sight, And if your hands are cold then You're not circulating right. Well, your blood is such a life-giving potion, Like a river it's always in motion, From your head to your toes, Doing good as it goes, It's a big, red, beautiful ocean. Now the blood's not bad, it's kind of special, Yeah, come dig it! Circulation! With these red and white corpuscle cells, Yeah, come do it, Circulation! Red cells carry oxygen, white cells fight the germs, So come on, come do it, yeah, come do it, Circulation! So come on, come do it, with your heart, come do it, Circulation! Circulation! Everybody form a circle now. (Uh-huh-huh) Circulation! Like your blood, you just start moving around Circulation! It's a function that's so out of sight So come on move around and You'll be circulating right! There's a great new craze that's sweeping the nation Come on, do the Circulation! It starts with your heart, what a great sensation, Yeah, come do it, circulate! Out through your arteries, in through your veins, Your heart pumps your blood then it does it again. Come on, everybody, get it on, everybody. Circulation! So come on, everybody, get it on, everybody. Circulation! The Circulation |
The Circulatory Song............
The Circulatory Song
(from “Happy Days” sung by Anson Williams)
Hear the Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_d0ykpzQgY
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| Pump, pump, pumps your blood. The right atrium's where the process begins, Where the C02 blood enters the heart Through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle The pulmonary artery and lungs. Once inside the lungs it dumps its carbon dioxide And picks up its oxygen supply Then it's back to the heart through the pulmonary vein Through the atrium and left ventricle (all join in chorus) Pump, pump, pumps your blood | The aortic valves where the blood leaves the heart Then it's channeled to the rest of the bod’ The arteries, arterioles, and capillaries too Bring the oxygenated blood to the cells The tissues and the cells trade off waste and CO 2 Which is carried through the venules and the veins Through the larger vena cava to the atrium and lungs And we're back to where we started (all join in chorus) Pump, pump, pumps your blood |
The Carol of the Pulmonary Capillary.........
| The Carol of the Pulmonary Capillary (tune “Do You Hear What I Hear”) Written by: Dr. Kent Van De Graaff | |
| Said the trachea to the little lung “Do you see what I see? In this body warm, little lung. Do you see what I see? Some blood, some blood running through a vein, Wanting oxygen to gain, wanting oxygen to gain” Said the little lung to the bronchioles, “Do you hear what I hear? Coming from the heart, bronchioles, Do you hear what I hear? The AV valves closing happily, It’s time for systole, It is time for systole” Said the bronchioles to the alveoli, “Do you know what I know? In your tiny sacs, alveoli Do you know what I know? RBC’s are bringing CO2 They wish to exchange gas with you They wish to exchange gas with you.” Said the alveoli to the molecules, “Listen to what I say. Little oxygen molecules, Listen to what I say. Squeeze through my simple squamous epithelium Then grab on to a hemoglobin Then grab on to a hemoglobin.” |  |
Mar 31, 2011
Some Medical Mneumonics for nursing...
Mnemonics, which simply means "memory aid" in Greek, is a quick and significant means to enhance your memorization skills. Unlike acronyms and other means of learning by association, using mnemonics is an effective way to remember hard to retain facts.
A common example is the order of the basic steps for resuscitation: ABCDE (airway, breathing, circulation, drugs, environment). Another example is this rhyme for treating a a person who has fainted: "If the face is red, raise the head. If the face is pale, raise the tail."
A common example is the order of the basic steps for resuscitation: ABCDE (airway, breathing, circulation, drugs, environment). Another example is this rhyme for treating a a person who has fainted: "If the face is red, raise the head. If the face is pale, raise the tail."
FEW EXAMPLES OF MEDICAL MNEMONICS:
Medical Mnemonics for HYPERKALEMIA is "Machine" - Causes of Increased Serum K+
M - Medications - ACE inhibitors, NSAIDS
A - Acidosis - Metabolic and respiratory
C - Cellular destruction - Burns, traumatic injury
H - Hypoaldosteronism, hemolysis
I - Intake - Excesssive
N - Nephrons, renal failure
E - Excretion - Impaired
Medical Mnemonics for Signs and Symptoms of Increased Serum K+ is "Murder"
M - Muscle weakness
U - Urine, oliguria, anuria
R- Respiratory distress
D - Decreased cardiac contractility
E - ECG changes
R - Reflexes, hyperreflexia, or areflexia (flaccid)
Medical Mnemonics for HYPERNATREMIA is "You Are Fried"
F - Fever (low grade), flushed skin
R - Restless (irritable)
I - Increased fluid retention and increased BP
E - Edema (peripheral and pitting)
D - Decreased urinary output, dry mouth
Can also use this one: SALT
S = Skin flushed
A = Agitation
L = Low-grade fever
T = Thirst
Medical mnemonics are very useful especially if you are in the medical field where there are lots of things that needs to be memorized.
Below are websites that I found to have tons of Medical Mnemonics.
Medical Mnemonics.com
This is the queen of all sites - a free, non-profit online searchable database of every single medical mnemonic you can imagine, and them some. What do they have mnemonics for? Everything: anatomy, anesthesiology, behavioral science/psych, biochemistry, biology, cardiology, chemistry, dermatology, embryrology, emergency medicine, epidemiology, gastroenterology, genetics, histology, immunology, internal medicine, family practice, physical assessment, microbiology, neurology/neurosciences, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedics, pathology, pediatrics, pharmacology, physics, physiology, podiatry, psychiatry, radiology/oncology, rheumatology/allergy, surgery, urology/nephrology.
You can also download the entire thing to print out or save to your hard drive.
http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/cgi-bin/pdf.cfm
MD4Sure.com
Another great resource, MD4Sure.com's has mnemonics concerning the basic sciences, medical conditions, etiologies, signs and symptoms, diagnoses, and therapies that can easily be remembered. They also have a handy list of medical acronyms and shorthand.
NursingHands.com
NursingHands.com has a nice collection of mnemonics covering human anatomy, assessment & diagnostics, nursing interventions, the circulatory system and other miscellaneous mnemonics designed to help nursing students.
Bowel components - "Dow Jones Industrial Average Closing Stock Report":
From proximal to distal:
Duodenum
Jejunum
Ileum
Appendix
Colon
Sigmoid
Rectum
Alternatively: to include the cecum, "Dow Jones Industrial Climbing Average Closing Stock Report".
Knowledge Level 1, System: Alimentary
Anonymous Contributor
Anonymous Contributor
Diaphragm apertures: spinal levels
Aortic hiatus = 12 letters = T12
Oesophagus = 10 letters = T10
Vena cava = 8 letters = T8
Duodenum: lengths of parts
"Counting 1 to 4 but staggered":
1st part: 2 inches
2nd part: 3 inches
3rd part: 4 inches
4th part: 1 inch
Knowledge Level 5, System: Alimentary
Anonymous Contributor
Anonymous Contributor
Liver inferior markings showing right/left lobe vs. vascular divisions
There's a Hepatic "H" on inferior of liver. One vertical stick of the H is the dividing line for anatomical right/left lobe and the other vertical stick is the divider for vascular halves. Stick that divides the liver into vascular halves is the one with vena cava impression (since vena cava carries blood, it's fortunate that it's the divider for blood halves).
Meckel's diverticulum details
2 inches long.
2 feet from end of ileum.
2 times more common in men.
2% occurrence in population.
2 types of tissues may be present.
Note: "di-" means "two", so diverticulum is the thing with all the twos.
Aorta vs. vena cava: right vs. left
Aorta and right each have 5 letters, so aorta is on the right.
Vena and cava and left each have 4 letters, so vena cava is on the left.
Aortic arch: major branch order - "Know your ABC'S":
Aortic arch gives rise to:
Brachiocephalic trunk
left Common Carotid
left Subclavian
Beware though trick question of 'What is first branch of aorta?' Technically, it's the coronary arteries.
r
Atrioventricular valves - "LAB RAT":
Left Atrium: Bicuspid
Right Atrium: Tricuspid
Knowledge Level 1, System: Cardiovascular
Amir A. Ghaferi Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Axillary artery branches - "Screw The Lawyer Save A Patient":
Superior thoracic
Thoracoacromiol
Lateral thoracic
Subscapular
Anterior circumflex humeral
Posterior circumflex humeral
Alternatively: "Some Times Life Seems A Pain".
Brachial artery: recurrent and collateral branches - "I Am Pretty Sexy"
Inferior ulnar collateral artery goes with Anterior ulnar recurrent artery.
Posterior ulnar recurrent artery goes with Superior ulnar collateral artery.
Alternatively: "I Am Pretty Smart".
Carotid sheath contents - "I See 10 CC's in the IV"
I See (I.C.) = Internal Carotid artery
10 = CN 10 (Vagus nerve)
CC = Common Carotid artery
IV = Internal Jugular Vein
Knowledge Level 1, System: Cardiovascular
Anonymous Contributor
Cavernous sinus contents - O TOM CAT
O TOM are lateral wall components, in order from superior to inferior.
CA are the components within the sinus, from medial to lateral. CA ends at the level of T from O TOM.
See diagram.
Occulomotor nerve (III)
Trochlear nerve (IV)
Ophthalmic nerve (V1)
Maxillary nerve (V2)
Carotid artery
Abducent nerve (VI)
T: When written, connects to the T of OTOM.
Coelic trunk: branches - Left Hand Side (LHS):
Left gastric artery
Hepatic artery
Splenic artery
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