How much do you remember from A&P?

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Just curious how much some of the material from nursing pre-reqs comes up in day to day nursing. Would you be able to name 5 tissues found in bone if someone asked you on the spot one day?

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Just curious how much some of the material from nursing pre-reqs comes up in day to day nursing. Would you be able to name 5 tissues found in bone if someone asked you on the spot one day?

When the day comes that you are scrubbed in or circulating a bone repair, graft or harvest, familiarity with the structure and layers of bone will serve you very well.

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Specializes in ER, OR, PACU, TELE, CATH LAB, OPEN HEART.

It is amazing to me what I remember.

My daughter is in a surgical technology program, anatomy is one of the classes she is taking. I took anatomy from Sept to Dec 1973, been an OR nurse since 1978. She will call and ask me questions and I honestly know the answer without looking it up.

If you learn the material to know it and not to pass the test you keep it and own it for life. JMHO.

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

I would struggle remembering some of the A & P I learnt but I would be able to work it out if I had a few mins

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Specializes in CTICU.

Depends, the stuff that relates to areas I have worked in, I could recite to you in great detail. Other areas I've not worked in, are somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind!

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Everything I learnt in A&P has blended in with other subjects like Patho, Assessment, and Fundamentals but if you asked me to name all the different types of tissues in the body, I would have to have a few seconds to recall.

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I worship physiology, baby :smokin:

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Specializes in PICU, Pediatrics, Pediatric Home Health.

An OR nurse probably sees and hears the physicians using anatomical terms and thus could probably do better at recalling anatomical terms.

I honestly don't know what I would be able to recall if I had to, but I do know that I am sometimes suprised by the things I do remember from A&P. I doubt I could go as far as looking at a cell under a microscope and differentiating them anymore or recall every muscle and bone in the body... but I think I recall most of the major structures.

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Specializes in LTC, wound care.

All nursing builds on A & P. You need it to understand all that follows, and you'll use your knowledge daily as you care for patients or clients. I feel like I have forgotten alot, but the things that I learned using mneumonic devices, I will own forever. Also, when stuff is talked about, you will at least be familiar with it, and know some things about it. You'll be surprised at how much stuff you WILL remember!

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i'm currently taking ap2 and my prof is totally nuts! he stands in the front of the class and READS THE CHAPTER TO US!! occasionally he will skip a paragraph here and there, but basically we have to learn the whole chapter. he covers a chapter every week and every 2 weeks we have an exam.

it's so much material, and i have to actually make notes on everything myself in order to study effectively. basically i'm trying to cram it all in to get the grade. I've made a's on all the exams so far, but i don't feel like i'm retaining much. i feel like my brain discharges all the info I learn for the last exam to make room for everything i've got to learn for the next.

many times i'll not understand something, but the next time i will see the prof , is when we will be having the exam, by then i'm so ramped up for the exam i can't even remember my question.

i can only hope that the info is still ratteling around in my head, and i'll remember it when i need to.

nurse wannabe

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Just curious how much some of the material from nursing pre-reqs comes up in day to day nursing. Would you be able to name 5 tissues found in bone if someone asked you on the spot one day?

I actually understand and remember more than I did when I took A&P a decade ago. Regarding five bone tissues, the answer is much easier than you think about it: blood vessels, periosteum, nerves, cartilage and marrow are all forms of tissue that should be easily identified by the novice anatomist.

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