Avoiding Med-Surg Class?

Clinical Nursing II is Med-surg, they just don't call it that.

medical / surgical health problems throughout the life cycle

That class will probably be a split clinical of med-surg and psych from what the description says. Every nursing program must have a med-surg clinical because it's the foundation of nursing. A nursing program is required to have that because technically its adult nursing, you can't be a nurse without taking an adult nursing class right? My BSN program calls the med-surg classes Nursing for the Ill Adult I & II

Oh yeah, you'll have Med/Surg no matter what LPN program you go into.... it just may not be called Med/Surg. My Med/Surg class was broken down into Adult 1, 2, 3, and 4. It's unavoidable and you shouldn't want to avoid it anyway. It's basically a class that goes through every body system and their problems. Like right now I am doing Cardiac and Integumentary and learning about all the diseases people get with in those systems..... you can't go through nursing school with out taking those classes... those classes basicaly ARE nursing school lol

There is no way to "avoid" med/surg. It is the basis of your nursing knowledge, and must be learned. :)

My school calls it Adult Health 1 (endocrine, cardiac, respiratory) and Adult Health 2 (GI, GU, cancer, etc...), but the titles and how the content is covered will vary by program. I'm not sure how LPN programs cover the material, though. You'd have to speak with someone from the particular school.

Thanks. I thought that maybe some LPN programs did not have the class since it was primarily for RN programs. I am just wondering why Med-Surg seems to have such a repuation on the forums for being extremely difficult? Is it really that bad? If I do a non-accelerated program, will it be any easier (being that I have more time to absorb the information)?

Thanks. I thought that maybe some LPN programs did not have the class since it was primarily for RN programs. I am just wondering why Med-Surg seems to have such a repuation on the forums for being extremely difficult? Is it really that bad? If I do a non-accelerated program, will it be any easier (being that I have more time to absorb the information)?

I haven't taken it yet but from what I see it's difficult because it's a very broad subject that contains a little of everything. Labor and Delivery, is pretty much just that. While everyone is different and some people may have some out of ordinary cases, they all pretty much lead to the end result of having a baby. Med-Surg is ICU, Emergency, OR ect and pretty much any adult problem you can think. Med-surg floors are usually where nurses have the most patients at a time, all with very different problems and you have to know and understand them all.

Everyone is different and some people found it more difficult than others because they hated it. Don't let them freak you out. I think the acceleration might help a little but probably not that much.

Thanks. I thought that maybe some LPN programs did not have the class since it was primarily for RN programs. I am just wondering why Med-Surg seems to have such a repuation on the forums for being extremely difficult? Is it really that bad? If I do a non-accelerated program, will it be any easier (being that I have more time to absorb the information)?

It's really not as bad as people make it out to be. I took Med/Surg 1 last semester and got an A- in the class (BSN program). I paid close attention to what my instructor told us to focus on, read the chapters, and read through the class powerpoints. We also have ATI (computerized comprehensive testing at the end of each semester) books that are a good study resource.

Don't let people scare you. Med/Surg is the basis of nursing and as long as you have solid study habits, you'll be fine.