How many people thought A & P was easy?

[DAMomma]

Okay, I would not say easy, but not to overly stressful and hard. I mean I had ALOT of memorization and understanding concepts, but it was not as hard as let's say, micro. Micro was horribly hard for me .

A friend of mine had a test in A & P this past week. They tested on cell respiration, the Krebs cycle, integmentary (sp?) system, AND the bones.....In my opinion, it seems like her test was all over the place, maybe that is why is hard for her. Another thing, my A & P class was broken down into I and II (15 weeks each) Her class is A & P I and II mushed into 15 weeks.

What are your thoughts?

[Hope2Be]

OH MY GOSH blkgirlwithwings!!!!!!!! I wish i was blessed with a brain like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nursekatie22, RN]

I studied for Anatomy a lot more than Physiology, but most of it was done the night before tests, I'm afraid to say:nono:. Physiology was a joke. The teacher was incredibly boring and I had my mp3 player on most of the time (it was back when I didn't even WANT to do nursing, so I didn't care--again, not a good thing!). I didn't remember about the tests until I came to class the requisite 10 minutes early and saw people with their books out cramming! So for physio, I LITERALLY "studied" 40 minutes (there were four tests) the whole quarter!

Bottom line, for physio, I either had a really huge lucky guessing streak, or the teacher was grading the tests blindfolded!

Micro was a class I actually studied for cause I liked it, but it was hard. The teacher was awsome, though, and that made a big difference!

[nursekatie22, RN]

A side note, though: All of my not studying didn't really pay off in nursing school because by the time I actually wanted to do nursing (in my second year!) I was so worn out just trying to keep up and review A+P stuff and I'm still working on it.

[medhead]

Anatomy and physiology are two separate courses here (as opposed to lumped together over two semesters). I took anatomy several years ago and thought it was way easy... just a bunch of memorization of easy to comprehend material. I'm scheduled to take physiology this upcoming semester so the verdict isn't in for that yet. Most classes come fairly easy to me though, so I'm not too worried...my main problem is fighting boredom and maintaining motivation!

[Scrubz]

I had to take AP2 but it was stupid because the year before I had taken an anatomy class and physiology class separatly, and those were hard. On top of that I had an inorganic chemistry class and an english class. By far that was my hardest semester and I think I ended up with a 3.3 or something like that, which was nice. Usually the harder the classes the better I do.

Last semester, my first semester of nurisng, I had fundamentals and AP2, and overall it was stressful at times (nursing mainly with the lab poriton), but other than that it wasn't too bad. Next semester I take OB/Peds for nursing, which will be way more time consuming than fundamentals, and then a microbiology class, which will probably be harder than AP2. I look forward to it.. :chuckle

[Cammie895]

A&P I was pretty easy for me. Well, I guess "easy" isn't a good word because I did have to work really hard at it, but it was doable & very well structured. The instructor had study guides available online for us for each test, and if we knew the study guide we were guaranteed to do well on the test.

Unfortunately, I was unable to get the same lady for A&P II. The instructor I ended up with had no type of study guide or anything. It was more like, "Here's the book - know it." I was struggling to maintain a low C in her class, but she ended up withdrawing me anyway because I missed one more day than I was allowed to miss because I went to CT for my brother's wedding and got back too late to get to class.

I will be retaking A&P II this semester and I was unable to get the same instructor that I had for A&P I this time so I am pretty confident I will do well. ::knock on wood::

[JoJo_Ga_Girl]

I had a great instructor for A&P and LOVED it. It made learning everything a lot easier.

[ewattsjt]

i loved a&p i and ii. what made it better is that we had the same instructor who picked up on ii where we left off on i. his style of instruction made it easy to grasp different concepts. i think i would have struggled if i had been placed with another instructor. presentation was everything.

he even gave us a heads up on bones in a&p i. we were told how the test in a&p ii would be and how we needed to know it to pass the class (it was a weighted test). half was physiology and the other half was identification. he had a box of bones of the entire skeletal system. he would pull out a bone, point to it and asked what it was if he was pointing to. if it were an epicondyle, you had to list it (i.e. right humerus distal anterior end, lateral epicondyle). without the heads up, i doubt many of us would have passed.

[midcom]

I have a really cool A&P teacher. At the beginning of the quarter, she told us that if we were there to every class she'd guarentee that we'd pass her class. Turned out I misunderstood. Those of us who had 100% attendance (probably 25% of us)were given A's and cute prizes! However, to be honest, I think all of us who had 100% attendance probably all earned A's anyway.

In a way I felt a bit sorry for one of the gals in my class. She gets all worried when we have a quiz or test. A couple times, she called in sick so she could study longer and so that another of her friends could help her with some answers. She's a good student but I suspect she probably only (only???) got a B. I suspect we will see more of my classmates with perfect attendance this quarter in A&PII.

Dixie

[mickey1234]

I say it also depends in the type of instructor you have, cause some instructor can make it harder that it really is, i hated A&P, it was to much to remember, but i studied and studied, i got a B, and micro was a piece of cake

[PMFB-RN, RN]

It was a breeze! I never took A&P (note, that is not the same as saying I don't know and understand A&P)

[Multicollinearity, BSN, RN]

I think it is a bit inflammatory to say that A&P is easy. I'm wondering if the memory of taking the class is receding for some? Or if some are just boastful? I don't know, and I'm not pointing at any particular poster. These are just my thoughts in general regarding the notion of A&P being 'easy'.

I do know this - I worked my butt off in A&P. In my opinion, it is not that there's anything that is very difficult to understand. It's just a (((massive))) amount of memorization.

I would hate to see pre-nursing students read this thread and think 'oh, ok...A&P isn't that hard..' and then plan their class schedule under that erroneous delusion.