How Much Pre Req We Apply?

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How much of the information we learned in prerequisites like A&P I & II, MICRO, NUTRITION we actually use in the core program? Have you ever found yourselves going to A&P books for reference?

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Specializes in Cardiac.

Sure! My A&P book was right next to all my nursing books. I have referred back to it several times. I know I can't memorize everything from A&P (or at least keep it long term). Plus, your instructors will expect you to already know it, so they won't spend any time re-freshing your memory. I actually gained a lot from nurtition as well. I didn't ever go back and review that book, nor my micro book, but I think if you did well in those classes then you won't need to.

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Specializes in Rural Health.

I use all my pre-reqs all the time. Math for the calculations we have to do weekly, micro when we talk about infections, A&P is used ALL THE TIME in my nursing classes, psych for my psychosocial care class, english for writing all the papers, speech for the 10 teaching projects required before I graduate....yup...I use it all.

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So far through 1 semester of nursing school I have found I have used SOME aspect of all of them except Statistics.

I DEF use my A+P book. I just used it a TON for my careplan...had to go back and look up spinal tracts...yee fun!

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Specializes in NICU Level III.

I def. refer to my A&P book! It's the only prereq book that I took with me when I moved. I've found a lot ofnursing school is VERY based on A&P..if you don't know it, you better learn it!

Also, I used a lot of stuff from my growth & development and nutrition classes.

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Hmmm...not that much. I have referred to my A&P book just a few times, and my Psychology through the Lifespan book a few times. That's it.

However, I refer to ALL of my nursing books, a LOT. I never sell any of them back.

~J

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Specializes in Med/Surg..

Hi Student, A&P, Micro, Nutrition, Psych, etc. - these courses make up the Foundation you have to have for Nursing. You go over disease processes for each System in Nursing School and if you don't have the core-classes, you couldn't understand what's going on in the body.

For ex: when you're learning about cardiovascular diseases, they don't stop and go over the anatomy of the entire cardiovascular system, they are expecting you to already know that. Micro constantly comes into play when discussing infectious diseases. Psych is a must have - and Nutrition plays a major part in every disease we've studied. I'm graduating in a few weeks and keeping all of the books I've purchased to use as references. If you do well in the core-classes, it will make life much easier for you in Nursing School.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU, Neuro/Trauma stepdown.

a&p comes around again, again, again, and again.

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