A & P compared to med surge

[9livesRN, BSN, RN]

Hi guys, I ams tarting my core classes in january 7 weeks from now, this is what i have done to prepare myself:

i have read the fundamentals book

i have read and done the exercises on medical calculations book

but i am definately scared about med-surg, it sounds like a ride to hell!!!

if you go to the pre-nursing student forums, you will see people saynd that A&P is so hard and things like that...

how was medsurg compared to a&p (in a dificulty level varying from 1-to 10, 10 being the hardest???)

- can you guys tell me about any books to read prior of entering med surg? something like medsurge for dummies or medsurge made easy???

any comment is definately appreciated!

[Nurse 2009]

hi guys, i ams tarting my core classes in january 7 weeks from now, this is what i have done to prepare myself:

i have read the fundamentals book

i have read and done the exercises on medical calculations book

but i am definately scared about med-surg, it sounds like a ride to hell!!!

if you go to the pre-nursing student forums, you will see people saynd that a&p is so hard and things like that...

how was medsurg compared to a&p (in a dificulty level varying from 1-to 10, 10 being the hardest???)

- can you guys tell me about any books to read prior of entering med surg? something like medsurge for dummies or medsurge made easy???

any comment is definately appreciated!

i think pathophysiology was so hard. i think with the fact that it was first semester of nursing school and you really aren't used to it makes it even harder because you are thrown right in and really do not know what to expect. i passed but not by much. i did very well in my clinicals though, which i always do. i am one of those people who freak out on tests. you are really going to need to study!! i bought the workbooks but have to be honest and say i didn't really use them much but i heard other people swear by them so use the workbooks that come with the textbooks. buy them!!

[lemonaidangel]

Two words: NCLEX review!

[bsugar888]

They are both harddddddddddddd...............they call med surge the thinning out semester........I'm in 3rd semester it just gets more difficult.........just understand whats going on in the body, and why it is happening.........best of luck to you.

[9livesRN, BSN, RN]

i did extremely well on A&P, and i hear people talking about how you have to know the fluid flow, blood flow, and the parts of the heart...

blood flows from your right atrium into your right ventricle through the open tricuspid valve. When the ventricles are full, the tricuspid valve shuts. This prevents blood from flowing backward into the atria while the ventricles contract (squeeze).

blood flows from your left atrium into your left ventricle through the open mitral valve. When the ventricles are full, the mitral valve shuts. This prevents blood from flowing backward into the atria while the ventricles contract (squeeze).

Once blood travels through the pulmonic valve, it enters your lungs. This is called the pulmonary circulation. From your pulmonic valve, blood travels to the pulmonary artery to tiny capillary vessels in the lungs. Here, oxygen travels from the tiny air sacs in the lungs, through the walls of the capillaries, into the blood. At the same time, carbon dioxide, a waste product of metabolism, passes from the blood into the air sacs. Carbon dioxide leaves the body when you exhale. Once the blood is purified and oxygenated, it travels back to the left atrium through the pulmonary veins.

and things like that .... i get it!!!!

i am scared of what is to come, don't know if the stuff that i know is "too little" i am trying to get a ton of reading, exercises done in december so that when the real thing comes, i am sort of familiar with it!!!

Does any of you guys have advices, on websites and such that i could go to get a sumary of fundamentals and medsurg ???

thank you