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  • This site offers a variety of help on the most frequently asked questions.
  • Links are offered to the favorite sites of students and faculty.
  • Student tutors are available for one on one tutoring sessions. Email:  NUR-Tutor@wpunj.edu to schedule an appointment with a tutor.
  • Tutors and faculty conduct workshops through out the school year. Go to NET Blackboard for more information. 

Student Encouragement Video

Click here to access the WP Library-Nursing Resource Page.

For more info contact Prof. Renee Pevour RN MS at 973-720-3516 or at pevourr@wpunj.edu.

Advanced A&P

Heart electrical activity (ECG)

This video helps students by clearly showing how the heart's electrical system works and what really happens with each beat, and how it connects to ECG waves, making it easier to understand heart rhythms.

Heart sounds (S1, S2, S3, S4)

This video will help students recognize and understand heart sounds (S1, S2, S3, S4) in a simple way, making it easier to identify normal and abnormal findings during patient assessments.

UDC I

3280 Nursing Practice

Safety
Nexus Nursing Patient and Environmental Safety Video

This video provides practice exam questions that help to enforce the safety concepts taught in lecture.

Isolation Precaution Video

This video provides mnemonic tricks to help you remember each type of isolation precaution and how donning/doffing of PPE should be done.

Registered Nurse RN Practice Quiz

These quizzes will help test your knowledge on the different types of isolation precautions and which conditions require each isolation status, as well as the different types of PPE.

Giddens/Davis Safety Fundamental Video

This video goes over the basic concepts related to safety in nursing fundamentals.

Med Administration
Registered Nurse RN Med Routes and Abbreviations

This video will help you familiarize yourself with all of the common medication routes of administration and their abbreviations you will likely see in the clinical setting.

Med Admin Checkoff Video

This video provides a demonstration of how a standard med pass would look like and help you prepare for your skills check off.

Level Up RN Safe Medication Administration Video

This video goes over the different rights of med administration and best practices for medication administration.

Fluids and Electrolytes
Nexus Nursing Fluid and Electrolytes Video

This video provides practice exam questions based on fluid and electrolyte concepts that may be covered in your lectures.

Infection
Level Up RN Chain and Stages of Infection Video

This video goes over the chain and stages of infection and can help to reinforce concepts gone over in your lecture.

Lecturio Nursing Infection Fundamental Video

This video goes over the basic components of an infection, how it spreads, and how to break the chain and control the infection.

Nexus Nursing Infection Control and Prevention Video

This video provides practice exam questions on the topics of infection control and prevention.

Registered Nurse RN Infection Control Video

This video includes practice exam questions related to the topic of infection control and safety precautions that can help test your knowledge on the subject.

Care of a Surgical Patient
Perioperative Care Nursing Video

This video provides a five minute overview of the concepts encompassed in perioperative care from a surgical nurse.

Nexus Nursing Care of a Surgical Patient Video

This video provides practice exam questions based on care of the surgical patient and emphasizes important concepts that may show up on your exams.

Nexus Nursing Pre Op Video

This video provides practice exam questions related to surgical nursing, specifically the pre op phase, that can help reinforce the concepts taught during lecture.

Tissue Integrity
Nexus Nursing Skin and Wound Care Video

This video provides practice exam questions related to the topics of skin and wound care.

Simple Nursing Pressure Injury Video

This video goes over the pathophysiology, causes, and stages of pressure injuries and helps to reinforce the concepts taught during lecture.

Level Up RN Would Healing Video

This video goes over the basics of wound healing like the phases of healing, healing by intention, wound drainage, and complications/barriers to healing.

Registered Nurse RN Pressure Ulcer Quiz

This quiz provides pictures of different types of wounds and helps test your knowledge on staging pressure wounds.

Gas Exchange
Nurse In The Making Oxygen Delivery Device Tik Tok

This Tik Tok explains how each oxygen delivery device works and how to put them on for patient use.

Level Up RN Oxygen Delivery Devices Video

This video goes over the different types of oxygen delivery devices and common oxygenation interventions.

Nexus Nursing Oxygenation Video

This video provides practice questions related to the topic of oxygenation and can help to reinforce the knowledge gained in lecture.

Gas Exchange Core Concepts Video

This video goes over the core concepts related to gas exchange and provides a quick review to reinforce important concepts.

Elimination
Level Up RN Urinary Elimination Video

This video goes over the different types of incontinence and urine specimen collection techniques.

Nexus Nursing Urinary Elimination Video

This video provides practice exam questions related to urinary elimination and can help to test your knowledge on the subject.

Nexus Nursing Bowel Elimination Video

This video provides practice exam questions related to bowel elimination and can help to test your knowledge on the subject.

Understanding Stomas Video

This video helps to differentiate between the different locations and types of stomas and what conditions they could be used in.

Understanding Catheters Video

This video helps give a visual example of urinary catheters and how they function.

Registered Nurse RN Colostomy and Ileostomy Video

This video explains the different types of ostomies and the characteristics of each.

Registered Nurse RN Ostomy Care Quiz

This quiz can help test your knowledge surrounding ostomies and the specific care required to maintain them.

Mobility
Nexus Nursing Mobility Video

This video provides practice exam questions based on mobility concepts.

Level Up RN Effects of Immobility Video

This video goes into the specific complications that can accompany immobility, like DVTs, and what interventions are appropriate to promote patient safety.

Navigate Alerts & Cases Follow-Up Guide

This video reviews the specific considerations that may be tested surrounding assistive devices.

Level Up RN Fall Prevention and Restraints Video

This video reviews the specific types of restraints and the important rules you must know when dealing with a restrained patient.

3270 Comprehensive Health Assessment

Therapeutic Communication
Simple Nursing Therapeutic Communication Techniques Video

The first 14 minutes of this video provide the student with a simple definition of therapeutic communication and goes over commonly missed NCLEX questions related to the topic.

Nexus Nursing Therapeutic vs. Non Therapeutic Communication Video

This video provides practice exam questions specific to the topic of communication in the healthcare setting and includes detailed rationales that help dissect the “why” behind each answer.

Nexus Nursing Therapeutic Communication Video

This video is the second part to the above video and provides more practice exam questions on the topic of communication.

Nexus Nursing Therapeutic Communication in Culturally Diverse Patients Video

This video provides practice exam questions related to therapeutic communication through a cultural lens.

UDC II

UDC III

UDC IV