difference between cardiac tamponade and pericarditis?

[Blackheartednurse]

Does anyone see a difference between those two conditons except a different cause?

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

I never had to take Patho in my ADN program,I know sucks,the patho was was thrown into our med-surg classes,a little bit of this and that,but who had time to research patho fully in detail,I know I didnt at all ,between morning clinicals,long hours of reading chapters and preparing for exams there was little time left to do anything,now that I have been jobless for over a month I'm trying to make the best time out of it and brush up my patho skills.Also I'm plannning to go back for my BSN in near future and the university that I'm thinking to apply to has patho I think as their requirements or at least elective LOL,one thing I regret is that my program didnt have a solid patho class,we had micro instead which I thought was less helpful that the pathology course.

Oh I see. That does suck they did that, we had Patho as it's own 4 credit class as a Co Req, I took it prior to starting nursing school.