St. Joseph's Hospital

Student Life

For the Student

There is a Dean’s Advisory Committee that consists of five student representatives and meets with the Dean on a regular basis.

In the Education Center, there is a study area in the library, a computer room in the education area and a student lounge.

Students bring their own lunch or purchase food from one of the excellent cafeterias in the various hospitals.

Instruction

Students attend school full time, five days a week. Three days are spent in lectures and two days a week are spent in the hospital caring for patients. 

Classes are held on the first floor of Girard Medical Center in a new state of the art educational setting, which includes classrooms, a student lounge, computer area, and library.

Clinical experiences take place at Girard Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Temple University Hospital, Shriners, St Chrispher's Hospital for Children and various community settings.

The financial aid office is located in room 400 in the Girard Medical Center. 

Faculty offices and administrative areas are located on the 2nd floor of Girard Medical Center.

The school will be closed for any inclement weather days the Philadelphia Public Schools are closed.

Effective April 2010 Dean Baxter is pleased to announce that Lee Berkowitz has assumed the role of Coordinator Student Service. Lee has been teaching at the school for two years. She is a graduate of Frankford Hospital School of Nursing, Temple University- BS Communications, BSN from Penn State University, and will complete her work for her MSN at Regis College in spring 2011. She has a number of years of experience in medical surgical, OB nursing , dialysis and Pheresis/Stem Cell with the American Red Cross.

The Student Services Coordinator will assist students in fulfilling their goal of nursing. She will help with remediation, study skills, note taking skills, test taking skills, and stress management.  She will assist in developing study groups and student usage of the computer lab. She will help graduates and current students prepare to pass the NCLEX-RN.

SJHSON Book List

Required before starting

LeFever, Joyce and Marshall, Sally M.  Clinical Calculations 6^th Edition.  Saunders, Elsevier.                    ISBN: 9781416047407

Semester  One – Recommended

Chenevert, Melodie.  Mosby’s Tour Guide to Nursing School:  A Student’s Road Survival Kit.  Elsevier.    ISBN:  9780323071505.

Nugent, Patricia; Vitale, Barbara.  Test taking skills for the beginning student nurses, 4^th edition.   FA Davis.  ISBN:9780803665989.

Taber.  Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 21^st Edition.  FA Davis.  ISBN:  9780803615590.

Required

Ackley, Betty J; Ludwig, Gail B.  Nursing Diagnosis Handbook:  An Evidence Based Guide to Planning Care. 

ISBN: 9780323071505.

 Potter, Patricia; Perry, Anne.  Fundamentals of Nursing, 7^th Edition.  Mosby.  Elsevier.  ISBN:  9780323074544.

 Potter, Patricia; Perry, Anne.  Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Basic Skills and Procedures, 7^th Edition. Mosby.  Elsevier.  ISBN:  9780323074544.

 Seidel, Henry; Ball, Jane; Dains, Joyce; Benedict, G. William.  Mosby’s Guide to Physical Examination, 7^th Edition.  Mosby.  Elsevier.  ISBN: 9780323055703 (with workbook)

 Silvestri, Linda A.  Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination, 4^th Edition.       Elsevier.   ISBN:    9781416037088. 

Semester Two - Required 

Kee, Joyce; Marshall, Sally M.  Pharmacology, a Nursing Process Approach.  Saunders.  Elsevier.         ISBN:  9780131182677.

Kee, Joyce LeFever.  Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications, 2^nd Ed.  Saunders.  Elsevier.  ISBN:  970131182677.

Lewis, Sharon; Heitkemper, Margaret; et al.  Medical-Surgical Nursing.  Vol. 1&2, 8^th Edition.  Mosby.  Elsevier.  ISBN:  9780323065818.

Lewis, Sharon; Dirksen, Shannon Ruff, Heitkemper, Margaret M.  Clinical Companion to Medical-Surgical Nursing.  Elsevier.  ISBN:  97803230166624.

 Semester Two – Required books (cont’d)

Ricci, Susan.  Essentials of Maternity, Newborn and Women’s Health Nursing, 2^nd Ed.  Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.  ISBN:  9780781787222.

Skidmore-Roth, Linda.  Mosby’s Drug Guide for Nurses, 9^th Ed.  Mosby.  Elsevier.  ISBN: 9780323067034.

Semester Three – Required books

Hockenberry, Marilyn; Wilson, David.  Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, 8^th Ed.  ISBN:  9780323053532.

Hunt, Roberta.  Introduction to Community-Based Nursing, 4^th Ed.  Lippincott-Williams and Wilkins.  ISBN:  9780781772471.

Touhy and Jett.  Ebersole and Hess’s Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging, 3^rd Ed.  Elsevier.  Mosby.  ISBN:  9780323057011.

Semester Four – Required books

Chitty, Kay Kittrell; Black, Beth Perry.  Professional Nursing;  Concepts and Challenges, 6^th Ed.              ISBN: 97814137707199.

Varcarolis, Elizabeth; Carson, Verna; Shoemaker, Nancy.  Foundations of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 6^th Ed.  ISBN:  9781416066675.

Yoder-Wise, Patricia.  Leading and Managing in Nursing, 5^th Ed.  Mosby.  Elsevier.  9780323069779.

Zerwekh, JoAnn; Claborn, Jo Carol.  Nursing Today:  Transition and Trends. 6^th Ed.  Sanders.  Elsevier.  ISBN:  9781416056720.

Semester Five – Required book

Saccoman, Elizabeth A.  Evolve Reach Testing and Remediation Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination.  Elsevier.  ISBN:  9781416047759.