Pathophysiology and Pharmacology - how hard

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Anywho, starting September 7th I will be taking a med/surg, patho, and pharm class. I am very strong in sciences and am very confident in med/surg because past students talk about how easy it is. What I am wondering is just how hard patho, and pharm is. Like I said I am strong in sciences, but I will also be working part-time at my job. This will be 6 days every two weeks. Any input or experiences you've had would be great, thank you :D

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.

Patho & Pharm are probably the most interesting and the most useful class you will take in nursing school. I didnt find them difficult at all :)

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I think pharm was my easiest class of nursing school because it was mostly memorization :D flash cards for the win!

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awe thanks! I wanted to hear more positive opinions over negative and I certainly got them!:yeah:

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The classes are tough but very useful during nursing school. I had 2 part-time jobs while I was taking these classes. I did struggle because they were a lot of information, but you can do it. Gluck!

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Specializes in Critical Care, Postpartum.

Yes these classes are useful and it will come together during clinical. Since you have the science background I think Patho will be easy for you. I don't have a science background and had to study twice as hard. I liked Pharm, but the info was alot, maybe because I'm in an accelerated program. It was nice to already know the meds I was giving to my patient in clinical without having to look it up on my PDA. I think you'll do fine in both classes.

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I just finished both this semester in an accelerated course and I think it depends upon your program. I know you wanted to hear positive experiences, but....I have a strong science background and while the concepts were "easy," my school expects a lot out of us and I had to work harder than ever for an A. Nursing is unlike any other major and these classes will cut you off at the knees at times. We were not just required to memorize information, but to apply it critically to clinical and what we were learning to other courses. I'm sure you'll do well with your background and positive attitude, but I wish someone had told me just how much blood, sweat and tears these "easy" classes require at times.

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if you think about it, if people didn't have some kind of problem with their physiology, they wouldn't be in the hospital needing your assessment and plan of care. physiology is everything. i used to tell my students that they had to know cardiac and pulmonary physiology (at least) because if people don't have hearts or lungs we don't have to worry about them anymore, they're dead. :idea: physiology is not just useful in nursing school. it's essential for nursing.:yeah:

(personally, i loooooove physiology and am happy to explain anything i can to anyone, anywhere, any time.)

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