Did you guys remember all of your anatomy before starting nursing school?

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I am a little worried because, i studied my u know what off when I was taking Anatomy and I got a B but was so close to an "A" , but i got an A in lab..there are so many things I don't remember though and some things are fuzzy, i remember some things here n there, n some things i know if i look at again some thing will come back lol :( ...because anatomy was so detailed and at the time i was having back problems that would keep me up at night and trouble sleeping, it was a tough time for me but i didn't want my grades to suffer because of it so i worked a little harder..i am concerned that this will affect my progress in nursing school..i think what happens to most of us is that before nursing school we study for the grades, n now in nursing school this information really needs to stick u know..any advice for me?

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

I needed to make a correction on the book I mentioned earlier;

The Human Body in Health and Illness by Barbara L. Herlihy (Hardcover - Oct 30, 2006)

Again, to me it is well worth the money and I use it as a reference the majority of the time I have haunting questions on Anatomy.

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Specializes in Making the Pt laugh..

Anatomy and physiology is hard to remember for most of us. At the University (college) that I attended the A&P courses were a feeder for not only nurses but for all medically based courses so it was full on and detailed. I remember getting examined on the details that were relevant for physios and occupational therapists as well as for us nurses. I got great marks and immediatly "data dumped" 90% of what I learnt to make room for the next subjects. Even with the "data dumping" the information was remembered/reinforced during other subjects, such as pathophysiology and med-surg.

The reason a lot of information was not easily remembered was because of context, I remember the A&P in context of disease process, ie: in the kidney this happens or xyz will occur, medication A used to treat xyz works by ensuring process 1 occurs....and so on. On arriving on a ward it is easy to feel that you know very little but then when the information rattling inside your head is put into context you remember it and realise that you know more than you think.

BTW if I can remember this stuff...anyone can.

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Specializes in ER/Ortho.

I start the nursing program in about a week, and I have been freaking out over the same thing. I actually had a dream that the first day they told me to stand up, and started asking me all these A&P questions. Needless to say I just stood there unable to answer with my mouth open, and they kicked me out...did I say dream...I meant nightmare.

Anyway, I remember back in A&P 1 I was trying to learn everything, and make it stay in there forever. Then in A&P 2 I realized the stuff from A&P1 was leaking out. I was freaking out and went to the professor asking how I would make it in nursing school if I couldn't remember the stuff from 1. She told me the same thing all the above posters are saying...."You will forget because you don't use it every day, but you will remember what you need to when you need to."

I felt really good about that...until the Hesi A2 entrance exam, and I really DID need to remember all that stuff. I made an 90 overall, but A&P was my lowest score. While I made A's on everything else I made a 79 on A&P.

It's good to hear that they don't expect us to remember everything. It's been a big score of my nervousness about starting school.

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Specializes in NICU.
I needed to make a correction on the book I mentioned earlier;

The Human Body in Health and Illness by Barbara L. Herlihy (Hardcover - Oct 30, 2006)

Again, to me it is well worth the money and I use it as a reference the majority of the time I have haunting questions on Anatomy.

Pagandeva,

You always have the best book recommendations! I have gotten several that you have suggested and I have been extremely happy.:bow:

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Harparia

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:bow:i feel alot better now lol :) you guys are amazing people, and i appreciate that you take the time to write back, and you always have great advice..thanks a million!! :D yeah it makes sense, :D im glad im not the only one that feels this way.. lol funny dream "cool peach"..well i had a dream about my first day of school as well, i dreamed that i was sitting in my first lecture class and the teacher was lecturing so quickly, and everyone in class was keeping up, highlighting and taking notes, and i just couldn't keep up, and i felt so overwhelmed...it was too much information to digest at once :eek: and i walked out of class, and when i went to have lunch everything was overly expensive , it was ridiculous, but you know how dreams are lol so i ended up not having lunch..oh yeah and my first day of class i was not wearing my uniform..it was more like a nightmare..well have a nice weekend everyone! :)

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I have had anatomy so many times until I have lost count...I am taking it again when I start LPN school Tuesday and I should know the entire book, but it dosen't work that way for me...Good luck, though...

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I have been worrying about the same thing! Starting up LVN school Sep 2 and I've panicking about if we'd be expected to pick right up where we left off in AP. Good to know we don't have to know it all. :specs:

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Specializes in LTC & Correctional Nursing.

As pretty much everyone else has said you will be fine and you will hear it all over and over again and it will stick and you will get it. I am at the end now and looking back I never thought it would come together like it has! Good luck to you!

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