Nursing Students Pre-Nursing
Published Mar 23, 2013
Just Curious if they still do that. We dissected rabbits in our animal a&p and the nursing students did cats. That was 17 years ago
KelRN215, BSN, RN
1 Article; 7,349 Posts
In high school, I dissected a frog in Biology and a cat in Anatomy and Physiology. I'd also done owl pellets and I think a crayfish in middle school. In college, we didn't dissect anything.
Boxer Mama
293 Posts
We dissected a cat all semester as well as brain, eyes, kidneys, heart or either a pig or sheep.
MrsStudentNurse
294 Posts
We do a lot of surgery on the kitty but in anatomy and physiology 1 it was on the sheep and cow eyes. We have testing on the cadavers.
StayHumble11
200 Posts
I wish but we don't at my school
caligirl7
95 Posts
This semester in my anatomy class we use human cadavers and each student does a specific dissection assigned on a cadaver. I go to a junior college but my school doesn't combine anatomy and physiology classes for nursing students. In high school we used sheep eye, cow heart and brain and a fetal pig.
Medic/RN2B
144 Posts
We did baby pigs and sheep hearts for ANP 2
Fireman767
231 Posts
A&p1: Cats, rats, and some sheep.
A&P2: Cats, sheep, cow for certain organs
Some schools use cadavers if they have a program to help them and allow them to use them (usually the schools that have their own med school under their name), but most schools don't have cadavers since it's far too expensive to create and manage.
StrawberryEssence81
94 Posts
We are dissecting fetal pigs for A&P II.
professionalgirl80
253 Posts
2 weeks ago in A&P I lab I dissected a rat.
Katieerin
97 Posts
I am taking anatomy this fall and we will dissect cats.
mjo07
170 Posts
At a community college, for A&P1 we dissected a pig and a sheep's brain. for A&P2 we dissected a sheep's heart so far..