Whats the Most important thing to Remember?

BoonersmomRN · Jul 4, 2006

Thats a hard question because you will incorporate all of them...but if I had to pick one I'd say A+P. You will need to understand your systems.

dawn1971 · Jul 4, 2006

1. You need to know whatever things are going to be tested! Seriously, we lost SO many people during the pre-reqs, concentrate on the here and now.

2. Nothing really from Chemistry. Micro biology...bacterias. Anatomy (bones).

jessica · Jul 4, 2006

Everything. You will build on all of your prior knowledge. THe important thing to do is really and truely learn it and incorporate it into your being. You may not remember everything about micro, but you'll build on it later. A&P, well I use it daily, every second. When you enter your clinical nursing instruction. Don't sell your books back. Keep them and add them to your newly started nursing library so that you can reference them later.

Good Luck!

Jessica

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Jul 4, 2006

the biggie from chemistry is probably the acid/base business and the shorthand for the elements potassium, calcium, chloride, sodium, magnesium, barium, iron, and iodine--at least those are the ones that come to mind. the acid/base stuff carries over into physiology, particularly when you get into the respiratory system and start looking at respiratory alkalosis and acidosis. a lot of the cellular functions get into basic chemistry of osmosis and diffusion across semi-permeable membranes. renal diseases need an understanding of chemistry. just about everything in anatomy will have a pathological counterpart(s) which forms the basis of disease. hence, you need to know the normal anatomy and physiology of all the body systems in order to understand where the pathology (disease) has screwed things up. when you are covering these topics in nursing, however, you will revisit any anatomy, physiology, chemistry or micro needed to help understand the disease mechanism. in general, you study disease by first reviewing normal a&p of the body system involved, what has broken down, the manifested signs and symptoms of the disease, diagnostic tests to determine if the disease is present and treatment modalities that will be ordered by physicians and can be done independently by nurses as well. the nursing part of all this involves incorporating the nursing process in all of that which includes physical assessment of the patient, developing a plan of care, developing outcomes and goals and evaluating the patients response.