Hi

I am going back to nursing school after a five year break, I will be taking health assessment with lab. It has been so long since I took my a&p, fundamentals, pathophysiology ,pharmacology and peds/ob. Please give me advise as to how I would succeed in my health assessment class and lab knowing that I have been away from school for some time now. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks

From my own experiences, health assessment wasn't exactly a course that integrated other nursing courses like patho/pharm/fundamentals. Health assessment, depending on your program, can become pretty detail oriented especially in the lab. Fortunately, though, I found reading the text and following my professors power points to be more than enough to be successful in the course. It's an assessment course, and unlike Med/Surge/Peds isn't usually centered around interventions and critical thinking when it comes to exams, at least that was my experience. It just requires you to learn some new information and gain some new knowledge to become proficient in assessing - good luck! :)

Pay attention in lecture and lab, read your lab workbook (and if they don't give you one, go on Amazon and get one-- there's no law that you're limited to what's on the bookstore list for your class), and practice practice practice.

Thanks a lot for your feedbacks, I will keep them in mind...