Patho Question Please Help

Before you get any opinions, check with the school to see if they'll even accept a class you took online. A lot of nursing schools actually have a concrete structure to your nursing classes.

Then if you can, remember, for ANY Summer class, you have to be able to handle learning very rapidly. You're taking a 16 week class in only 8-10 weeks. It's not going to be easy.

You're in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.

I found pathophysiology to be one of my more challenging subjects. It could've been just me, but I felt it required absolute concentration and dedication to the subject. I can also understand you wanting to get this class out-of-the-way by itself because it is more challenging and also due to lessening your course load come fall.

If you're single, don't have to work or work part-time, I think you could do this class in Summer time. Again - no time to fool around because this class is going to be your full-time job. Just realize that it is a lot of understanding a concept and not just memorizing the concept. And to top it off, you have half the time to do it in than a regular class.

On the other side of the coin if you take it in the fall, you're going to have other classes to do and patho is definitely a challenging class. As I already mentioned, a lot of focus has to be placed on this class. You might get overwhelmed.

I think a lot of this depends on how you are as a student And only you know how you are.

Personally, if it were me, I would get it out-of-the-way in the Summer just to not have a large load of classes to take in the fall.

Good luck!

This is really program dependent. Our program had a great patho instructor (challenged you in the best way) but I still found it doable during my 1st fall semester of nursing school. The first semester nursing classes are generally very basic and don't require A LOT of study time compared to second semester (imo.)

Check in with other previous nursing students from your program and get advice from them! They'll have a better insight. For example, we have an official nursing fb page and I see comments all the time from new students asking previous nursing students about X professor or X course. You'll get a better gauge on YOUR programs patho course! Best of luck