How to retain all the information learned?

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:confused: There is so much information to be learned with A&P and the nursing courses. How do you retain the stuff learned to apply it when you finally finish and begin working? Do you remember everything? I'm thinking of the body parts and functions also. I feel like I take my tests and then forget about everything. Also in the nursing courses, will I remember about diagnoses, interventions and how to evaluate it all to develop a careplan?

I've had an overlaod today, I guess. I have 3 tests next week to prepare for and my A&P, there is so much info, metabolism, tissues and the many types and functions, integumentary system, need I say more!! plus I have to learn all the bones in the skull by Tuesday and also have to develop the diagnoses etc. to prepare a careplan for my test in Health Assessment.

I was actually questioning why I was going to school. I could be working at my boring accounting job, ha! ha!

UGH!!!!!

Thanks for letting me vent. I'm sure I will have a different outlook tomorrow.

I did use the Monkey one.

A&P is tough for some, really good suggestions here, sorry I don't have anything more to add.

I prayed a lot..lol.. and did study groups.

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We were allowed to go into the Lab room and pull out all of the bones, muscles etc... we did this off hours with partners, it helped a lot if you are able to do that. :)

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I had a hard-er time remembering which bones were which initally- I kept switching them around. So, I actually wrote them in position on my hubby in ink pen! I still can close my eyes and see it!

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oops - somebody already said that...:D

w/ the cranial nerves we used vegetables - never heard velvet (its cute)...we also just said AHhhh for accessory and hypoglossal

peace

sarah:p

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Cranial Nerves Mnemonic:

On

Old

Olympus'

Towering

Tops

A

Friendly

Viking

Grows

Vines

And

Hops

1) Olfactory (You have 1 nose)

2) Optic (You have 2 eyes)

3) Oculomotor

4) Trochlear

5) Trigeminal

6) Abducens

7) Facial

8) Vestibulocochlear

9) Glossopharyngeal

10) Vagus

11) Spinal Accessory

12) Hypoglossal

"4, 5, and 6 make the eyes do tricks"

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Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.
i've found - the more you review it the longer you remember it - i think in A&P they called it building a "Complex Reverberating Circuit" (ummmm...long term memory)

Also, I am finding out now that when you learn about examining each system you get a review.

as for diagnoses and care plans and whatnot, i dunno i think you probably get better and better w/ dilligence and time...

maybe the other wonderful folks on here will have some pointers:D

g'night

Sarah:smokin:

Right. I find that coming at the same information from different angles helps you retain it. You learn it once in A&P and once in nursing assessment and once in patho and once in making careplans... and it all fits together.
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Specializes in Medical.
1) Olfactory (You have 1 nose)

2) Optic (You have 2 eyes)

Brilliant! I could never remember which of the O's was for what. I'm an RN now so I don't have to remember (just look it up when I need it) but that's great :)

One thing I found useful for retaining slabs of information was putting things to music, where the rhythm prompted me to remember what came next, and tricks to differentiate between different but similar words (eg dysphaSia is speech, dysphaGia is gag).

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