Anatomy and physiology notes

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Hi. I was wondering if anyone had any anatomy and physiology notes to share. This is my second time taking this class. I passed lecture but failed lab but I will accept all notes tips and advice. I really want to pass this semester.

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When did you get your nursing degree if you don't mind me asking? I would just rather take advice from millennials since they may be able to relate to me more. A&P isn't quite the same since elder nurses took A&P

Well gawwwly gee, first Pluto isn't a planet and now the anatomy of a human being has changed? I was taught the foot bone is connected to the leg bone, the leg bone is connected to the,........nevermind.

Your comment was uncalled for. I hope when and if you pass boards and start working you will be more apt to take advice from nurses who have been nursing for more than six months. Elder nurses do know a thing or two and we don't always eat our young, although after your comment, who knows.

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When did you get your nursing degree if you don't mind me asking? I would just rather take advice from millennials since they may be able to relate to me more. A&P isn't quite the same since elder nurses took A&P

I'm sincerely curious and not offended by your use of "elder" the adjective. Teaching and learning methods are different?

I'm inclined to say we were just given/assigned the information and had to read and memorize it and really understand how everything works together. Lab was a lot of dissecting things and looking at/identifying already dissected things and a loooot of slides.

At least that's what I remember from centuries ago... ;)

Anyway, what is different?

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When did you get your nursing degree if you don't mind me asking? I would just rather take advice from millennials since they may be able to relate to me more. A&P isn't quite the same since elder nurses took A&P

You mean the head bone isn't connected to the neck bone anymore?

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And what textbook do you now use? Shades of Gray's Anatomy?

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When did you get your nursing degree if you don't mind me asking? I would just rather take advice from millennials since they may be able to relate to me more. A&P isn't quite the same since elder nurses took A&P

Well some of us 'elder nurses' (I'm in my 50's) only took A&P about 7 years ago, and I don't see how/why it would be so different now. I'm with others: just go to class, pay attention, and take your own notes. Excuse me now while I adjust my hearing aid and get my cane...

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You mean the head bone isn't connected to the neck bone anymore?

WHAT! I've been learning it wrong this whole time...

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When did you get your nursing degree if you don't mind me asking? I would just rather take advice from millennials since they may be able to relate to me more. A&P isn't quite the same since elder nurses took A&P

Yo, Millennial here and I also echo what everyone else says - take your own notes.

I work as a tutor on campus and I see a LOT of students that come to me because they're struggling, and one of the major reasons is not that they don't have notes (they get photocopies from classmates, or people who have taken A&P with other professors); it's because they don't take their own notes. Different Professors tend to focus on different things; this is one of the major areas my clients were failing. They had good notes, but they didn't pertain to the Professor/class that they were taking; not only that, they weren't able to retain the information because they didn't write the notes. Writing for some is like....memory glue; if they want something to stick, they write it out.

Learn how to note take effectively - use colored pens to make terms pop; if your professor lets you download the powerpoints then do it. Use your notes to supplement what's in the powerpoint, and then read over it in your textbook after.

A&P is one of the first major weed-out classes; oftentimes people fail not because of bad professors, but because of poor or ineffective study practices.

Read your material, and supplement it with things like Youtube videos (if that's your jam), textbooks, websites. The more effort you put into this subject, the more it'll stick.

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Here is the consist of my A&P notes and I passed with an A triple plus in both classes:

1. Toe bone connected to the foot bone, foot bone connected to the heel bone, heel bone connected to the ankle bone, ankle bone connected to the shin bone, shin bone connected to the knee bone, knee bone connected to the thigh bone, thigh bone connected to the hip bone, hip bone connected to the back bone, back bone connected to the shoulder bone, shoulder bone connected to the neck bone, neck bone connected to the head bone.

2. On Old Olympus' Tip-most Top, A Finn And German Viewed Some Hops

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I got an A in lecture and lab for both A&P 1 and 2. Here's the secret. I studied (a lot), and I made my own notes.

Pro Tip: When you have lab time, use your phone to take pictures of all the models/cadavers/organs you'll be tested on from every angle. Take the images, and label them and use those to study. If there are models in the library you can check out, go there and do that. Make sure you can identify every muscle, bone, organ, origin and insertion, and pathology slide without help.

I just graduated with my BSN. I took A & P (1 and 2) 2 years ago.

I'm a Gen Xer. In my forties. You should think a bit more before you assume that new grads are of your generation, and that older grads don't know their stuff.

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When did you get your nursing degree if you don't mind me asking? I would just rather take advice from millennials since they may be able to relate to me more. A&P isn't quite the same since elder nurses took A&P

A& P, aka, the human body, probably hasn't changed in oh, about as many years as man has populated the earth........That being said---how do you think it has?

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Well some of us 'elder nurses' (I'm in my 50's) only took A&P about 7 years ago, and I don't see how/why it would be so different now. I'm with others: just go to class, pay attention, and take your own notes. Excuse me now while I adjust my hearing aid and get my cane...

Ha!!! I love the "excuse me now while I adjust my hearing aid and get my cane......" I actually HAVE both! And, thankful for them, actually. Your comment struck my funny bone :-)

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To the millenials who responded---thank you all! You proved to me that stereotypes are dangerous things. To the OP......work hard. Study hard. Go to your professor for help, or a tutor. Be responsible enough to find your OWN ways of learning without having others do the work for you. You can do it if you are consistent in your study and persistent.

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