Nursing School - What should I review?

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I have been accepted to a nursing program but its been about 3 years since I have taken my pre-requisite courses. I'm afraid I have forgotten what I'm going to need to know regarding A&P. what would be recommended, if anything, to review before my classes begin in January. Any help is much appreciated

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I have to ask out of curiosity... A program accepted you even if you have been out of school of 3 years? I have to be honest and say I didn't even know that was possible.

You might feel like you need to brush up on things, but all you're ever going to need to know will be told to you in nursing school. Well, that and so will the months studying for boards and actually being a nurse. :) The first quarter is going to be things related to the nursing field only and there's nothing you need to review really because it's specific to the job field. You probably will get dosage calculations, but how to do them will be explained in school. If you want to get a head start on diseases and what not, get books that go over fluids & electrolytes because that's your basics for literally everything. Some kind of problem with that leads to the diseases, and hey maybe knowing that will give you a heads up or an easier time in your med-surg courses. But I'd say don't stress too much on having been away from school. Enjoy your time till you have to give it up for nursing :).

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Thanks. I had gotten into the program back in 2009 but had to drop out due to just gotten separated from my spouse and being a single mom of three - I had to get a full time job. My company decided to close down 7 call centers and mine was one of them. I figured what an opportunity to go back to school and finish at last what I had started. Thanks for the information provided. I was getting a bit scared and wondered if I should crack open my A&P book. Lol

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Oh wow.. they held a place for you essentially then? That's pretty interesting!

If you do get antsy though and just feel like you want to learn soomething, then YouTube health animations to get you (nerdy talk) "excited" about what you will be learning. There's all kinds of cool videos to help you with learning about diabetes, pregnancy, addision's disease etc. And they're pretty basic enough to not get you confused too early.

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