Though I agree anatomy and physiology are extremely important fundamentals of the nursing cirriculum I fail to see how my knowing the microscopic anatomy of the GI tract (example) will ever be useful in my future career. Although I find it quite interesting I just can't see somebody coming up to me to ask me "nurse is the mucosal layer of the trachea ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelial tissue?" I've even talked to medical students who compare our anatomy courses to the A&P courses of their preclerkship program.
Does anyone else's program have a hardcore anatomy/physiology component? Does anyone see the point to such an extensive background?
P.S. my rant is fueled by a not so good feeling about my anatomy final.
Specializes in Critical Care, Pediatrics, Geriatrics.
DO you folks need Microbiology?
And if you do you will never understand Micro without Chemistry...
thats not true. Took Micro and did just fine without Chem. But I find them equally important, along with A&P......I am also a 'Why' person and I don't like doing something because 'that's the way it is...' Intervention rationales become common sense with extensive knowlege in these subjects.
And I agree with the poster who said the more you learn, the more you realize just how much you don't know.
Structure and function at the cellular level is the basis of everything we will be doing in the profession. Get a handle on it, and I stress, early, because it carries over into micro, phys chem and pathophysiology! Good Luck!
What I am wondering about is, where does Chemistry come in? Going for BSN? It isnt even listed in the RN program at my school I guess all schools are different.
I thought the same thing at first. What does chem have to do with it. When you get intoo clinicals and start doing fluids and electrolytes and acids and bases you will see where it comes from. It actually has a lot to do with nursing. I agree with an earlier post that when you are working with real people you want to know everything even down to the molecular level.
Ditto on the lytes! A backgroung in gen chem and phys chem go a long way to understanding. A few kids in the ADN program had a huge struggle with this concept as well as others. One thing I like about the pre reques in the BSN program is that the preparation takes a load off as far as extra studying, allows more time for the case studies!
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And I agree with the poster who said the more you learn, the more you realize just how much you don't know.