Disecting a cat-why?

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nursing 101

485 Posts

We are dissecting a mink... And they smell. I don't think it's necessary or fun to dissect them. I would prefer to work on human dummy of plastic body parts of humans. Don't see the point in dissecting anything that's not the human body.

Mimi2RN, ASN, RN

1,142 Posts

Specializes in NICU.

We did cats, too. 2:1, we got the only female, skinny little thing. Called her black kitty, and covered her face as we worked on her.........

Mimi2RN, ASN, RN

1,142 Posts

Specializes in NICU.

We did cats, too. 2:1, we got the only female, skinny little thing. Called her black kitty, and covered her face as we worked on her.........

mark_LD_RN

940 Posts

we did cats alos aswell as a fetal pig. it helps with identifing some of the stuctures, and as said before a human is to expensive to be wasted on nurses learning:(.

4 to 1 is high, you should offer to do the dissecting or at least take turns. taking pics helps my wife did that:)

you could offer to bring in some fresh cats for them. i offered but they would not let me.wonder why:)

mark_LD_RN

940 Posts

we did cats alos aswell as a fetal pig. it helps with identifing some of the stuctures, and as said before a human is to expensive to be wasted on nurses learning:(.

4 to 1 is high, you should offer to do the dissecting or at least take turns. taking pics helps my wife did that:)

you could offer to bring in some fresh cats for them. i offered but they would not let me.wonder why:)

OBNURSEHEATHER

1,961 Posts

Originally posted by mark_LD_RN

you could offer to bring in some fresh cats for them. i offered but they would not let me.wonder why:)

LMAO! Perhaps I missed my calling? "Collecting" cats for nursing school students!

Heather

OBNURSEHEATHER

1,961 Posts

Originally posted by mark_LD_RN

you could offer to bring in some fresh cats for them. i offered but they would not let me.wonder why:)

LMAO! Perhaps I missed my calling? "Collecting" cats for nursing school students!

Heather

2amigos

122 Posts

I didn't get to hardly do anything. It was so frustrating. The ratio was 4:1 alright..... darn it anyway. We also have the muscle pratical where they give us some muscles that were cut from various cats. Thankfully I found a virtual cat site online. That should help. Thanks once again for letting me vent.:kiss

2amigos

122 Posts

I didn't get to hardly do anything. It was so frustrating. The ratio was 4:1 alright..... darn it anyway. We also have the muscle pratical where they give us some muscles that were cut from various cats. Thankfully I found a virtual cat site online. That should help. Thanks once again for letting me vent.:kiss

Lausana

391 Posts

Poor Fluffy :o :chuckle I'm a weirdo that found disection facinating, lol, in HS I picked a boy partner thinking I'd be grossed out-nope he was terrified of doing the disection :rolleyes: So I was excited to do the cat, in A & P we had 2 to a scrawny kitty. Where do the find those poor things!?

But I think the most beneficial, to me personally, was when we got to periodically observe the 2 cadavers another biology class was working (for "fun" if we wanted, though only a handful could handle the fun, lol). It helps to visualize it on a person. But cats are obviously easier to come by!

Good Luck-be a discecting hog if you have to to see it all :D

Lausana

391 Posts

Poor Fluffy :o :chuckle I'm a weirdo that found disection facinating, lol, in HS I picked a boy partner thinking I'd be grossed out-nope he was terrified of doing the disection :rolleyes: So I was excited to do the cat, in A & P we had 2 to a scrawny kitty. Where do the find those poor things!?

But I think the most beneficial, to me personally, was when we got to periodically observe the 2 cadavers another biology class was working (for "fun" if we wanted, though only a handful could handle the fun, lol). It helps to visualize it on a person. But cats are obviously easier to come by!

Good Luck-be a discecting hog if you have to to see it all :D

StudentSandra

385 Posts

originally posted by sleepyeyes

we asked our instructor, "why a cat?"

she replied, "because a human's too expensive."

my instructor told the school, you wouldn't try to teach a computor class without computers.

we do a human disection (20 students, i had the left head and neck)every 2 years and then use those cadavers for regular a&p. so we now have 5, that are "pinned" with numbers for each body system. the lab practicals are a blank sheet of paper numbered 1 - 100.

i had the best a&p instructor. :D

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