concern about nursing

Hi Mo,

It seems to me that every curriculum is a little bit different. So as far as specific A&P reviews, I would recommend making friends with some students in your program that are a semester or two ahead of you. Pick their brains and it'll help you have an idea of whats coming up. Usually in nursing theory we study patho in systems. Reviewing the normal physiology of whatever system we are about to study (when there's time) is helpful for me.

I was very nervous starting my program as well. The best advice I was given prior to starting was; pay attention to the little voice in your head. Especially in clinicals. Cliche? Maybe a little. BUT so much of nursing is done by critical thinking and problem solving. If you hang on to nervousness you may close yourself off to realizing you knew the answer all along. Embrace the nervousness, then let it go.

Congratulations on starting your nursing school career! Good luck to you!

Thank You! I have been going over some of the A&P stuff like skeletal, muscular, and nervous system. just to refresh my memory.

Anatomy Coloring Book is good- it's not for kids !!! It was a staple of students in my class. Also, see if you can find one of the Incredibly Easy series books on A& P :)

Anatomy and physio of marieb is one that we used to because it's easier to understand.. just a suggestion :)

thanks. I have been reading the Marieb A&P. I'm trying to go over all the materials we did when I took A&P I-II. At this point I feel overwhelmed, and I know there has to be some things I can leave off.

Monic2006,

Don't stress yourself out. It's been 10 years since I look at A&P and I'm doing fine. Besides the first couple of semester will be fundamentals of nursing, pharm, health assessment, mental and family. A&P doesn't come into the picture until med surge. This is just my advice, but you probably should get the sanders comprehensive book, just to get a jump start on critical thinking. Learning how to critical think is way more challenging than A&P. Also, fundamental success is also a good book. I hope this helps, good luck!

Honestly, I would not worry about it. I also had taken a and p a few years before starting nursing school and really it doesn't affect me. There usually is an A & P review of whatever you're learning about and usually my professor's skip it over but it's tehre if I wanted to review but honestly you will most likely remember more then you think when you start your nursing classes.

The two biggest areas to review are cardiopulmonary physiology and renal physiology... and the relevant parts of the nervous system. That's more than enough.

Thank you for all your great responses. I feel more at ease. I can now relax a little and start preparing for this journey.

You don't have to re-study the whole thing, when you move to new subjects like patho or pharm and lets say liver function is discussed, if you don't understand something, go back and look at notes, an old text or google it. In my med-surg book, it gives a quick synopsis of the a&p involved at the beginning of the chapter. After a while, you will start to have a good feel for it all, because certain systems like the liver crop up over and over and you just can't help but learn it. Trust me on this one.

Hello! The integumentary system is a good one to know... Um...things so far that have been taught in A&P: 3 types of muscle, cell types (squamous, goblet, columnar), muscle locations (femural, soleus), also sutures in the head, and the inside of an empty skull bones (ie. occipital areas), homeostasis, bone (ie. normal bone versus ones with osteoporesis and know that Calcium salts).

I hope this this, but every curriculum will vary. Youtube, in my experience, has some great videos too.