Need Help Asap In Patho

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Hello fellow nursing students/ nurses

I need a new way to study for Patho. Can you guys give me some kind of idea about how you study for this course. Because my old study habits isn't working.:uhoh21: Please you guys can you help me!! Need help ASAP!! Thanks.

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I read every chapter and highlighted before class. I took notes during lecture by hand, recorded them, and typed my notes at home when I played them back - my prof was an MD, and warned us on day onee that he talked fast, and we had to deal with it. He also recommended that we take notes on the chapters ourselves, and that we use the study guide that went with the textbook. I did both. He said that those of us who wanted As should plan on devoting 15-20 hours a week to the class. That's about what I gave it, and I got an A.

Specializes in OR Peri Operative.

Patho was not that bad honestly. If you have taken A&P, then you know what the norm of the body is suppose to be, patho is the opposite and you should be able to pick up on that.

Make flash cards and highlight every key point in the book. Also it can't hurt to record the lectures. You could also review back to your A&P books to see and compare what the norm is and then to your patho.

Good luck, I'm sure you will do fine. :)

Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

I got an A- in Patho. I bought "Pathophysilogy made incredibly easy" for a suppliment. I read all the chapters and would number all of the key points at the end of the chapter and give a corresponding number to the section that talks about it in the actual body of the chapter. I went to EVERY class and answered all of the objectives the teacher gave. I thought the immune system was difficult so I had a friend who is way smarter than me explain it to me better than the book (he is the same friend that I took with and studied Organic, Inorganic, and Biochem with and got an A in) It helps to have studie partners. chances are you may have a harder time in different areas and can help eachother out. I wouldn't recomment study groups of more than three people; they tend to get off track and not very much studing gets done.

I found that reading the chapter before class was better than after because knew what the teacher was talking about and could take better notes

Specializes in SICU, MICU, CICU, NeuroICU.
I found that reading the chapter before class was better than after because knew what the teacher was talking about and could take better notes

That's an interesting point.

Best thing about patho is to understand why is happens and not to just memorize the material.

I know how you're feeling. I have been studying my tail off and still making only low B's and C's on the exams. Good luck!

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

for each disease start a page. make three columns. the first column is for a list of the normal process that should be going on in the organ or body system in a step-by-step way. the second column is going to have where the process has gotten screwed up to give you the disease in question. this column will show you where there is a broken link(s) in the chain. you want to show where the broken link(s) is/are by noting it across from the normal step that went haywire. your third column will contain the resulting sign/symptom that the patient will have as a result of each particular boo-boo and each resulting mess up as they occur down the line. each boo-boo in the step-by-step process of the pathophysiology results in the patient having a sign or symptom. as the process proceeds the signs and symptoms start to add up to a whole group of them until the doctor is able to list them out and put a label of a medical diagnosis on them.

now, here's the beauty of this. . .when you get into your nursing classes, those signs and symptoms are what nurses and doctors are going to aim their treatments at. their rationales for the treatments they do are based on the information you've come up with in these sheets that you are going to create (so don't throw them away because you'll want to refer to them later on).

if you open up critical thinking flow sheet for nursing students which is attached at the end of every one of my posts, you will find something similar to this already laid out for you. if you can't open up the link send me you e-mail address in a pm (private message)--do not post it on the forums--and i will sent the form to you as an attachment to an e-mail.

Thanks a lot everyone, i Just hope its not to late to pull my grades up!!! Thanks a lot!!

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