Is ti ok to do A&P2+ clinical 1 at the same time?

Bumashes, MSN, APRN, NP · Apr 21, 2006

I know what you mean. But, that's just how it's done at my school. You take your academics with your nursing/clinical classes. I will be taking Micro with my nursing classes (I have an Associate of Arts, so I have all the other classes already.) But many of my classmates will have A&P II, Oral Comm, Human Growth/Dev, etc to be taking with their actual nursing classes. So don't fret, other people are doing it, too.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Apr 21, 2006

We had several people do this when I was in school. It's possible, but will be tough.

How much are you working? That will probably be the deciding factor. Don't kill yourself or risk failing if it's only a matter of two semesters if you have to work full time.

Good luck to you.

texas2007, BSN, RN · Apr 21, 2006

Well I think to really understand the clinical material, you should take the anatomy/physiology before you get to clinical...how are you going to understand the rationale behind WHY you treat a patient with renal failure if you haven't learned anything about how a kidney works and all the hormones are involved?

Is summer an option, or was that already taken into account?

PickMePlze · Apr 22, 2006

My opinion, make it easier on your self and finish the pre reqs first. Nursing class and clinicals are difficult as it is. I finished ALL prereqs before I even applied because I didn't want to be miserable trying to keep up with extra classes. You have to remember to that with clinicals, you will be in the hospital the majority of the days you go and afterwards you will have to do your paper work like concept maps, drug sheets, lab sheets etc etc. Then you got class which the odds are you will have a huge amount of material to read and study for tests. You will have check offs and will need to set aside time to practice in the skills lab. Any research papers that they may request, you'll have to do that. And if you work, that's more time that's NOT available to concentrate on that other class.

I say do yourself a huge favor, finish a&p and micro first.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Apr 22, 2006

My opinion, make it easier on your self and finish the pre reqs first

In many programs A&P is not a "pre-req" but a co-req. Back in a day nursing programs were designed for the student coming straight out of high school, and they would take A&P and Nursing together. Diploma programs and many LPN to RN programs do this too. It is doable. Not ideal because as someone suggested it's nice to know how the kidney works normally when you're assigned a renal patient. (Of course often students are assigned a renal patent and haven't studied patho of renal failure yet even if they know the A&P of the kidney.). I went to nursing school with several students whose circumstances (and one fresh from high school) necessitated taking them together.

Practically all BSN programs have A&P as a prereq but not all other programs do.

I had to work full time and had an easier time because I took all coreqs ahead of time. If the original poster has to work any, I would definately suggest what you're saying - make it easier on yourself.

PickMePlze · Apr 22, 2006

In many programs A&P is not a "pre-req" but a co-req. Back in a day nursing programs were designed for the student coming straight out of high school, and they would take A&P and Nursing together. Diploma programs and many LPN to RN programs do this too. It is doable.

I'm sure its doable, especially if you are straight out of hs with no responsibilities but its still makes keeping up more difficult. The poster has a choice to take it with her nursing classes or before. But I personally wouldn't want to take it together, even if I didn't have to work.

babbz · Apr 24, 2006

Thanks guys!!!

After considering the responses I think that I will need plenty of time to do homework for the clinicals; ie:research papers (like somebody mentioned above) etc. I will try to take some classes during summer1 & summer 2 (Eng2, PSY2, Speech etc) and finish other pre-clins before the clinicals. When I start the clinicals, I will need all the extra time I need to digest it all.

Like I said, I do work full-time so I guess I can't probably take any pre-clins with the clinicals. If I lived with my parents and didn't have to work, I probably would've taken another science class with a clinical class considering I would have a lot more time on my hands.

Thanks everyone for helping me figure things out. I probably could never do work full-time+clinical classes+another course class and do well. I really can't believe I actually considered it (what was I thinking?) I learn well but I also do well without overwhelming situations. I'm sure many can relate, lol.