Do profs usually go over parts of A&P that are relavent to the topic they are teaching?

[annieelu]

I finished my first semester of nursing, I finished the foundation courses, anatomy and physiology and microbiology. And I'm beginning my second semester on Monday and doing intro to nursing theory, health assessment and pathophysiology. My question is for example if they are teaching a topic about kidneys and nephrons, will they review the parts of the kidney and how it works? Because over Christmas break I have forgotten a lot of the stuff

And I also have another question. How much of the info from A&P and microbiology would I have to know? Would I have to know every single detail from the textbook front to back? Or would I have to know the important things and main idea, like for example how they heart works.

[cnmbfa]

Absolutely NOT. They probably do not have enough time to address all the new content.

Why didn't you consider that you were going to need to KNOW anatomy and physiology and USE it in your future courses and practice? Are you one of those folks who think that nurses don't need to know things at a deep level because the doctor will rescue them somehow? How realistic are you about what it takes to be a competent, thinking nurse who can make good clinical decisions?

Get out the books and start relearning everything you should have NOW. If you struggle in the first few weeks, drop the course and use the time to reteach yourself.

Learn a lesson from this: classes build on one another. Don't ever do a superficial job of learning (just enough to pass a test) in any of them ever again.

[Longleggedstar]

How exactly do you plan to know every single detail of the textbook from front to back? I would love that secret!

And No, they wont go over the A&P of a system they are teaching (if they do, it will be brief), but it will most likely be on the PowerPoint and you can always review the material if your foundation of it is not strong enough to grasp the lecture.