Do you need to know all the markings on the bones?

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · Oct 31, 2005

I'm not quite sure what you mean, by "every bump and indentation." Could you be more specific?

You might want to know the skull and pelvis bumps and indentations because they'd help you determine sex and whether or not a female has had children.

But really, that doesn't have an awful lot to do with nursing; it'd be more relevant to forensics. So I don't catch the relevance there.

Most indentations are usually insertions of muscles and generally they indicate the robustness of the individual, or the general thickness could indicate things like whether the water was heavily fluoridated and such.

But really, your instructor will probably not make you age or sex or diagnose skeletons. Most of the skeletons that you get for school are composites, so you're likely to find a smattering of all sorts of things in just one skeleton that you wouldn't find normally in any one person.

Hope that helped.

KatieBell · Oct 31, 2005

I do need to know to locate the tibial tuberosity so I can insert a intraosseous catheter in a child. There are a few other examples of needing to know different landmarks using bone "bumps and indentations"

But the main thing here is that you need to do well in A and P to get into the nursing program. So, if you don't do well- it will be a problem for your admission.

Anatomy can be very difficult and I wish you the best of luck!

Fun2, BSN, RN · Oct 31, 2005

In the "real world" there are books, calculators, people to ask, etc.

In the "school world" you have to know it to make the grade. As Katiebell put it, you have to do well in A&P to get into a nursing program. (Even if it means having to repeat it!)

Study, study, study is all I can tell you. If you can devote the time needed to study, you can do well. Repitition and memorization are major keys to A&P.

Good luck! Don't give up, keep trying, and eventually, it will happen. :)

Newbie Nurse SMP · Oct 31, 2005

Thank you for your imput on this topic. I know I need to get it for A&P. I was just getting so frustrated because I was wondering if I will actually need to know these things to be a nurse. Like I said I know the bones.

A&P1 just sucks you dry..lol. I hope I do well in the end.

Fun2, BSN, RN · Oct 31, 2005

Yes it does! You will feel like the bones you are studying are your own, and they have been sucked out of your body until you are just a pile of flesh. (How's that for words to get motivated by?)

:rotfl:

Good luck, you can do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for your imput on this topic. I know I need to get it for A&P. I was just getting so frustrated because I was wondering if I will actually need to know these things to be a nurse. Like I said I know the bones.
A&P1 just sucks you dry..lol. I hope I do well in the end.

Newbie Nurse SMP · Oct 31, 2005

Yes it does! You will feel like the bones you are studying are your own, and they have been sucked out of your body until you are just a pile of flesh. (How's that for words to get motivated by?)
:rotfl:
Good luck, you can do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANKS for your encouragement!!! :bow:

I really appreciate it!

Newbie Nurse SMP · Oct 31, 2005

Has anyone ever used an A&P coloring book to help with learning the bones? I searched them on the internet and before I go and drop 45 dollars on one I wanted to get some reviews.

Do you think it will help or is it a waste of money?

jhawk07 · Oct 31, 2005

no you don't necessarily need them for nursing, but you need them for the class, I mean seriously every professor can't expect to remember everything you learn or memorize for his class for the rest of your life, as long as you get a good grade and leave the class knowing where most major muscle are the difference between your fibia and tibia and humurus bone you'll be ok. I took Anatomy a year ago and I can't remember barely anything!!!! I got a 87% in the lab though!!! To get a good grade in the class yes you do have to know everything they tell you to know. We were not asked on our final the small details like indentations and things, just the more major things like blood vessels and know how to tell difference between right and left. you won't remember almost anything you learn now a year from now and even less after that, but you will have gotten the general idea of where everything in the body is and that is what is important. I have also kept my reference books-I sold my textbook kept my Anatomy Atlas-just in case. When you get into nursing you will learn and be reminded of the parts you need to know because you will come into contact with certain parts of the body more than others mattering what your speciality is. A doctor will hopefully not ask you the branchings of arteries off of the aorta, if he does i would be scared and worried that he isn't a very good doctor. Patients will most likely not ask you where something is anatomically, 1-because they most likeley dont have enough knowledge even to ask the question in the first place, 2-they simply don't care as long as they are getting better, and 3-if by the slim chance they do ask and you don't know you can look it up, there is nothing wrong with saying to a patient, "well I don't know, I'll have to go look that up and get back to you on that", its better than saying you know but then being wrong. So my advice is learn what you are told to now, if you need to know the markings on bones for the test, learn them, if not, don't. Just make it your goal to come out of each class you ever take with at the least a general understanding of the concepts covered. So if someone walks up to you and starts talking anatomy to you in all those crazy terms, at least you'll know what they are talking about and can hopefully talk back to them.

Fun2, BSN, RN · Oct 31, 2005

Has anyone ever used an A&P coloring book to help with learning the bones? I searched them on the internet and before I go and drop 45 dollars on one I wanted to get some reviews.
Do you think it will help or is it a waste of money?

I bought one, but didn't really use it. I do know other people will say that was the best tool they had. I guess it's a matter of opinion, and to be determined by how you study.

Maybe you could go to the bookstore and look at them to see if you think it will help you. :)

BoonersmomRN · Oct 31, 2005

I bought one and I never used it- I gave it to my kids eventually as a coloring book.

It was my own stupid fault though..I am NOT a visual learner...so I don't know why I bought the dang thing.

Newbie Nurse SMP · Nov 1, 2005

I bought one, but didn't really use it. I do know other people will say that was the best tool they had. I guess it's a matter of opinion, and to be determined by how you study.
Maybe you could go to the bookstore and look at them to see if you think it will help you. :)

Good Idea! I will have to look at the store and hopefully be able to veiw a coloring book before buying it!

Thank you everyone for your excellent advise! I am so glad that I found this web site! :icon_hug: