If YOU can help...I'm looking for Anatomy help

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Mar 21, 2014

Well, we aren't coming over to your house to play doctor. But this will save your bacon.

The Anatomy Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit and Lawrence M. Elson (Jul 5, 2001) Not a joke, a real text.

SopranoKris, MSN, RN, NP · Mar 22, 2014

Great website to quiz your Anatomy knowledge: http://msjensen.cehd.umn.edu/webanatomy/

I loved this site so much when I took Anatomy. I even showed it to my professor and he added it to his "helpful links" list.

If you can pass the quizzes on that site, you know your stuff :)

NightNurseRN13 · Mar 22, 2014

It's been awhile since a&p but that website you posted was fun and proved I've still "got it". Great resource sopranokris

pmabraham, BSN, RN · Mar 22, 2014

Good day, Losa:

For me, it varied.... for bones, I would spend so much time with the models feeling each bone marking area and bone to the point where I felt confident enough that if you handed me a bone, I could identify it and the markings with my eyes closed. For muscles, I focused on learning land marks and groups of muscles around the landmark; I also created a pictorial album that included the muscle, insertion and origin points. For the circulatory system and what remained of our labs, I kept with the landmark and grouping idea as well as learning which where oxygenated (helped with knowing if blue/red was a vein or artery). In all cases, I spent as much time in lab and the model rooms as I could fit in.

Thank you.

crossfitnurse · Mar 22, 2014

If you are looking for how I studied for lab, I made high 90s this way.

I would make my own test using online pictures or covering the names of the body parts on diagrams from my lab book and making a copy so I have a blank/nameless page of just (for example) the nervous system.

I would memorize/ learn the cranial nerves then go it my blank one and test myself. Once I could correctly spell and identify those with no help, I would then add the upper portion of the body after memorizing those. Then I could go back to the blank one, again correctly spell and identify the cranial and upper body.

I would progressively move on till I could do the entire body with no help or any type of word bank.

The ones I kept forgetting or missing I would be sure to go over and review each time before re-testing myself.

Just like our lab tests I would number each nerve on the blank on and use a seperate paper as my answer sheet.

Then for kicks, I would identify them starting from the last # to the beginning to make sure I didn't just memorize them in order.

This worked amazingly well for all the systems.

Blank diagrams are easily found on google.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Mar 22, 2014

Well, we aren't coming over to your house to play doctor. But this will save your bacon.

The Anatomy Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit and Lawrence M. Elson (Jul 5, 2001) Not a joke, a real text.

You know, I bought that book years ago, fully intending to color it all in (I loved coloring!) but found it wasn't stress-RELIEVING for me, but stress-INDUCING! Oh well. It was a GREAT resource as a text, though, and I did use it. Gave it to my son when he took an A&P class in high school :)

Jonesie_Mac · Mar 23, 2014

I'm an auditory learner and a commuter. I really loved studying the body parts out loud in a study group, but when I couldn't do that, I found videos of instructors going over the models I would get tested on. I would watch it all the way through, then pause it and see if I could do it myself. I learned them very, very quickly this way. In lab, use your phone to record the instructor running through it and take plenty of pictures. Then, you will be able to study wherever and whenever, even on break. Again, this is best for auditory. Taking/drawing pictures and filling in diagrams might be the way to go if you are a visual learner and can't get to the models themselves.