A&P 2!!

[hello sammi]

Hello all my fellow future nurses!

Right now I'm in A&P 2 [along with a few other classes], and we're going to dissect a sheep brain tomorrow!

I am at a huge disadvantage - outside of a worm in middle school, I've never dissected anything! I am nervous and very excited.

What are you doing in class now? How are things going? Have you cut open anything cool yet?

[maddiem]

I'm in A&P 2 as well and my class includes access to cadavers (yes...dead people who donated their bodies to science). I'm fortunate enough to go to a school that has great resources in the health and science department. During our lab each week we spend time in the cadaver lab and every test we have as a section that includes identifying structures on the cadavers. We have 5 of them and I think its just the coolest thing to see everything for what it really is in the human body. Everything is cross sectioned and you can take certain organs out of the the body to look at them more up close. Just today we had a lab on the respiratory system and we went in to the cadaver lab for 30 minutes looking at the trachea, bronchi, lungs, and diaphragm. I've held a human heart and lung. The coolest thing I've seen in the cadaver lab so far is someone who died of an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. You could actually see where the aneurysm occurred. If your school offers A&P courses w/cadavers...DO IT! Its weird at first, but you get use to it.

[TxWillL]

I'm taking AP2 right now and we have had the opportunity to dissect a sheep heart and a cat. One of the cats was pregnant, which was really neat. I was able to remove one of the fetal kittens and dissect it also. I don't about you guys and gals but I LOVE dissections! I am very jealous of you guys/gals that get to work with cadavers. I would LOVE to be able to see exactly what we are studying with my own eyes.