is the Nervous System for A&P1 really that hard to learn?

[JadenRN TO BE]

my teacher said that this will be the hardest thing we will have to learn. is it really that much harder than bones/muscles?

[taodepooh]

I loved the nervous system way more than the bones and muscles. I found it all easier to remember and really fascinating. To help me understand it from all angles I watched Dr. Marian Diamond's lectures on the anatomy and then a few other people's videos on youtube to help me with the physiology. Combined they gave me a great foundation to really understand it far better than some of the other systems. It also cemented my love of Dr. Diamond :redbeathe:up:

[TraumaIs4Me]

Yes, our professor told us the same. As someone else said, it's not the anatomy part that killed me but the physiology. We just got our test grades back and I got a B (my other scores were As) and I STILL don't have a complete grasp on it! :grn:

[Woodenpug, BSN]

my teacher said that this will be the hardest thing we will have to learn. is it really that much harder than bones/muscles?

I was given the same warning when I took A&P. No, for me it was equally hard. Experience has taught me, though, that the Nervous system was more relevant to nursing care.

Really, I have not had the need to be able to identify an extra-corporeal bone by its landmarks.

[babyblue113]

The nervous system was much harder than muscles and bones! I enjoyed learning about muscles and bones waaaaay more than learning about the nervous system.

[futurenurseashley]

It sounds like I'm the weird one, but I thought that the nervous system was so much easier than bones or muscles. After you get the physiology of muscles, the physiology of nerves sort of just makes sense. And the anatomy is WAY less memorization.