A&P class for 2 weeks

[nahir05]

Hello to all,

I got accepted into a practical nurse program at an institute, now I'm a month into the program and I just finished fundamental of nursing in ONE month, but we didn't really finish the chapter we did up to chapter 18, and now on to A&P, but we have to finish it in 2 weeks 😐. Now the course is called A&P and medical terminology, but according to them ( professor and director) we don't need to that much A&P! So my question is how much A&P is indeed for LPN school ? I'm really upset that they're trying to cut corner but seems like they don't care how students feel. Another thing is that they give same test .. Like for example my final test was about the same questions I already had answer in previous test in the fundamental nursing class , I'm not sure if that's right or what but please I need some ones advice, thank you .

[Natasha A., CNA, LVN]

Thanks for advice and good luck in the RN program

Thank you Nahir05 for the kind words!!!

[imhorsemackerel, LPN]

Oh wow! That's very quick! In my school's program they had fundamentals, A&P, and Ethics/Growth and Development/ Nutrition/Something Else alternating through the week. The last group of classes was taught by one instructor and were short classes lasting like 3 weeks each. But the other two would be taught from September to I think about mid January. The main time A&P becomes handy is during Med-Surge because that goes over well Medicine and Surgery across all of the body systems. But during Med-Surge there was always a brief introductory chapter that went over each organ.

We didn't have a Medical Terminology class, but the instructors slowly incorporated medical terminology into the curriculum. After we're done with A&P and Fundamentals, we would have either Pharmacology or Fundamentals clinicals. We were split into two groups since there wasn't enough space at the clinical site for everyone to have clinicals at once. Once in pharmacology, they delved more into medical terminology. And I guess whatever wasn't really taught or emphasized was finally taught in Med-Surge, which was after the first round of clinicals and pharmacology.

At least once you go for your RN and take A&P in college, the material won't be foreign. They'll just go into more detail that brings everything together.

Interesting to see how different programs work!

[Natasha A., CNA, LVN]

Learning how the human body and disease states work really well helps a LVN nurse make safe clinical judgement and decision making from ADL's (turning the patient every 2 hours to prevent tissue hypoxia) to pharmacology when a pt has kidney failure and the knowing the normal urinary system functions. You can not manage patient care safely and prioritize care without the knowledge of A&P in addition to maslow hiearchy of needs.

[WHITLAGILB]

In my program we have 35 days to do A&P. We had a week and a half for Med Term. And fundamentals comes after both of those, and its a 7 day time frame to finish it. But I am in self study, good luck!

[SouthernBelle85]

We had A&P for a whole semester. Fund 1 1/2 the semester and Advanced Fund for the other 1/2. You need to know the norm before you go to med surg and are taught the disorders. I know our school has to have a certain NCLEX pass rate or they will lose their accreditation

[Natasha A., CNA, LVN]

Great advice!!!

What I wished I learned first semester was how to think like a nurse. Every organ is important, but some are more important than others. The vital organs.