A&P 1: The Spring '05 Anatomy & Physiology Club

ckkala · Apr 21, 2005

Happy Birthday Jules, it's my birthday today too!

By the way, there is nothing wrong with sitting in a chair outside studying!

Fun2, BSN, RN · Apr 22, 2005

Happy Birthday Jules, it's my birthday today too!
By the way, there is nothing wrong with sitting in a chair outside studying!

Well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU TOO, CKKALA!!

AmuraDina: On the LabPics page, I just have the pictures I took through the lens of the microscopes, or of the model, bone, etc. I do not have what each one is. You'll have to learn to identify them. If you click on a small picture, it will show a bigger version of the picture. Then, in the address bar where it shows what site/page your on, it will show the picture number at the end of the address. For example, cardiac muscle tissue is located at: http://www.nursingjourney.com/cgi-bin/gallery/gallery.pl?gallery=LabPics&viewpicture=151

151 is the picture number. If there are any you have a question about, after trying to learn what each is by using your A&P book, e-mail me. Just give me the picture number and ask me to identify it for you. I'll try to help out when I can, but can't go through each one because I have to study for the classes I am taking. (I hope that doesn't sound rude.) :0)

Again, I hope it helps.

nursestudentin05 · Apr 24, 2005

Hey Fun, I just checked out your website. Thanks for the nervous system photos. We have identical models in our lab lol :)

Well, I have entered my "I am so sick of studying" phase lol I haven't stopped studying since Monday, and that is just reviewing and studying new material. I am freaked out about the lab portion on nervous system, as I haven't learned all parts of the brain though I know the nerves (spinal and cranial), areas of the brain, cord... Uh.

Is anyone else ready to finish this semester or is it just me?

8 more days

BoonersmomRN · Apr 24, 2005

Oh heck yes! I am WELL ready for this semester to be over:)

I have spent all weekend studying the endocrine system because we only have 1 week to get it down...and while for the most part it's pretty easy it's sooooo easy to confuse what hormone does what/what stimulates what/what inhibits what...my eyes are crossing!

I also have to get all the bones/muscles for lab down pat - but I have 2 weeks for that.

Yes, I am very ready for it to be over...although I only have 16 days off before A+P2 :)

nursestudentin05 · Apr 24, 2005

Whew lol, thank God, I thought I was the only one! I talked to a friend of mine and she is so energized and happy about studying that she almost made me sick just listening to her lol. I just want to wake up and say: What am I going to do today with this FREE time of mine lol

Don't worry about the bones/muscles test. I actually enjoyed doing both :)

Good luck!

BoonersmomRN · Apr 24, 2005

I think my hands needs the break the most:) I did 125 flashcards today just on endocrine and I only got 1/2 way through the pituitary, thyroid,parathyroid, and adrenal...still more to go. The hardest part for me to remember right now is what diseases/disorders are caused by hyper/hypo secretion of EACH one. Argh:)

3 more weeks!

jules_ · Apr 24, 2005

I have my lab final tomorrow morning and then my lecture final in 10 days. My eyes are crossed trying to memorize the origins and insertions for tomorrows test. I am soooooo ready for a short break.

Jules :uhoh3:

Fun2, BSN, RN · Apr 25, 2005

jules: Good luck on your final lab tomorrow.

Nursestudentin05: yw! :) (When did you look, I posted more this evening, and put more nervous system quizzes on the quiz page. Hope they can help you!

Boonersmom: Any words from the wise about the Endrocrine system will be appreciated! :)

Right now I am taking a break from making my recordings of my notes. Once I finish, I put them on CDR's and listen to them in my truck everywhere I go. I think that has helped me with the other two exams, so I have to keep it going. (Don't fix what's not broken.) lol

11 days until my last lab exam, sometime around then (on or before the 10th) my last lecture.

Yes, I am so ready for it to be over too.

nursestudentin05 · Apr 25, 2005

I looked around 6pm. I didn't even look at the quizzes, I will :)

Thank you and hold on lol The end is near

BoonersmomRN · Apr 25, 2005

Hmmm best I can offer...

Did you touch on the endocrine system at ALL this year? See we did it in lab last month ( histology/hormones) but no where near in depth as the lecture part we are doing right now. I mean it pretty much breaks down to each gland produces/secretes it's own ( except the pituitary which secretes hormones produced by the hypothalamus- so it acts as a storage area basically and releases them due to control from the hypothalamus).

The hardest part like I said is the disorders of each one...and that for the most part they all sort of intertwine...like 1 hormone affects release of another whereas another inhibits. ACK

My best advice, really, is to make a chart. A BIG CHART- so you can see it laid out really big and then it makes more sense...mine has arrows in different colors for " stimulates/releases or inhbits..or detects...ex for one hormone that detects high Ca+ another will detect low Ca+, etc etc.... Some of them will be pretty forward and others will have you going eh? LOL! But, really as you know repeating them everyday you will finally get the hang of it.

Honestly because we have had to- and still are- rushing through it it *seems* harder to me than the nervous system. I bet had we had time to pace it out like the ANS/PNS I would feel a lot more comfortable right now. I have one week to get it down....so back to the books I go! Good luck w/ it in A+p2 ( that's when you said you had it. right?)....Im almost sort of glad I am getting it over with now.

nursestudentin05 · Apr 25, 2005

Hey, I just looked at the quiz. Excellent! And woo hoo, I knew them all lol

Thanks Fun :kiss

Fun2, BSN, RN · Apr 25, 2005

Hey, I just looked at the quiz. Excellent! And woo hoo, I knew them all lol
Thanks Fun :kiss

lol...good job! :)

BoonersMom....yes, I think it's the first thing in our A&P II. uggghhhh I'm pretty sick of Ca+ by now... :chuckle I'm just dreading the thought of knowing I have to learn all of A&P II in 4 weeks. I hope I don't regret it. I'm just glad the "have to make an A" isn't there as much as with my A&P I. For myself, the A&P I is a pre-req, the A&P II is a non-nursing course I'm getting completed before I start nursing school. I don't want any other classes except the nursing school courses, and clinicals.