NR507 Study Guide — Weeks 5–8

How to Use This Guide

All six units are written — 72 cards across Gastrointestinal, Neurobiological, Endocrine, CNS, Brain and Dermatological, one concept per screen.

• Weeks 5–7 are built from the assigned McCance & Huether chapters and the instructor's Clinical Reasoning decks and webinars. Where a card rests on a slide rather than the book, or on the book rather than a slide, it says so.
• Week 8 — Brain and Dermatological — is from the textbook only, because no Week 8 deck or webinar exists yet, so those cards carry no instructor emphasis. Where the book gives no labelled list or diagnostic criteria (migraine and TIA risk factors, how rosacea is diagnosed), the card says so plainly rather than inventing one.
• A handful of cards are deliberately thin, and each one opens by admitting it — the sources genuinely cover less than the topic title promises. Padding them with plausible-sounding material would have been the worst available outcome, because nothing downstream would catch it.
• Every card carries a verification badge, and the badges were earned after the fact, not assumed. Each card was re-read claim by claim against the source it cites — every number, reference range, drug name and threshold located and compared. Tap a badge to see what was checked, what is only partly backed, and where two sources disagree. The badges state their own limit: that pass was a second reading by the same author, not an independent audit. It reliably catches transcription errors, misattributed sources and drifted numbers, and is weaker against an error of understanding that survived both readings.
• Every card also has a plain-English version, behind the Simplify button in the deck header. Same facts, different wording: short sentences, every piece of jargon explained the first time it appears, and most of the content broken into tables rather than paragraphs. It is meant for meeting a topic for the first time, or for reading it at 1 a.m. It is a swap rather than a reveal — one version on screen at a time, and your choice follows you across units.
• Weeks 1–4 are not in this deck. The final is cumulative, but those topics live in the midterm guide and are not duplicated here — a second copy would drift from the first.