A&P not really helpful in nursing school!

[bioniclewoman]

I struggled through A&P 1 with an A and now I am stuggling through A&P 2 with a B. After all of this, a classmate tells me that when she was in LVN school there was no point in the program where she needed all this A&P info and she hasn't needed it in the last 5 years she has worked as an LVN. She said that she thinks these A&P classes we have to take are BS because the LVN/ADN nurse doesn't utulize this info. She says the basics make starting out as a nurse easier but that nursing in pracitce doesn't involve you needing to know most of this stuff. Like all the different types of tissue. If your a burn nurse yes you will need to know this, but they will teach you all you need to know when your in training.

Now I feel like I am wasting my time in A&P even though I have to have it.

[CuriousMe]

If you really wanna know..

I think general chemistry is a waste of time.

Am I ever going to have to balance reactions as a nurse?

Maybe not, but the practice in dimensional analysis was great, as was my understanding of the gas laws, pH, etc.

None of it's a waste....it's all pieces of the puzzle.