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I agree with Saysfaa. You'll never have the time with your children back again. And this is a time in their lives they need their mother, even if they don't think so. Slow down, take the time to enjoy your children. Time flies, and before you know it you'll be where you want to be, with less gray hair.

It is a challenging course, but if you commit the time and effort, you'll do fine. You have to read the text(s), and read them again, and make notes while you read, and review your notes. Try to record lectures and listen to the recordings, perhaps while you're in your car, or whenever you can. It 90% memorization - make use of mnemonics (http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/, among others), and learning word roots and etymology. If you start to understand the parts of words you'll find that many of those parts are used again and again, and you can figure out what words you never heard before mean - i.e. hydrocephalus - hydro means water, cephalus comes from cephalic, which means head. Now you know that any time you see hydro in a word it's going to have to do with water, and any time you see cephalic you'll know it has to do with the head. Good luck.

For someone who is on a path to enter the nursing field, this is a discouraging post. I hope this is the exception, and not the norm. I'm very excited about my future in this field, feeling I could do a lot of good - I hope I'm not writing a similar post a few years from now.

jpizzle11 i cannot begin to express how offended i am by your post. yours is a reprehensible argument. abuse should not be tolerated by anyone. just because some members of group one may have been abused more than members of group two does not give all of group one the right to tell all of group two to sit down and shut up. it is conceivable that this woman could be large and strong enough to overwhelm a particular man, especially if she chooses to use a weapon. and some men will not strike a woman no matter what the circumstances, so that may make his defending himself difficult. you are making the argument that double standards exist and should be accepted when women have been fighting against double standards for ages - assuming you are female, you are working towards setting your gender back years upon years trying to support such an argument.

Two is a whole other world than one. As Anne36 wondered, are you alone, lots of family, working, not...all play into it, but I would agree one max, and probably better an easier class - definitely not A&P!

obviously i'm not going to reveal that information... i will say, though, that i'm sitting here reading about sarcomeres, i an a bands, m and z lines, and wondering exactly how this is going to apply to my nursing career. and i could pull numerous examples from this text of things that i highly doubt will ever come into play. that's not to say it's not all very interesting, but a lot of it is simply not relevant. what i said when i had the conversation with the professor and some classmates is that i think a&p is a good gauge for whether or not a person is going to make it successfully through the nursing program. being able to learn such a vast amount of information in the time allotted will speak volumes about whether or not a person will be able to learn everything they will be taught in a nursing program, i think.

I believe I was told Sage College in Albany, NY. A quick look on their site shows a human physio course requirement, so perhaps there is no formal anatomy course requirement. I agree, based on what I'm learning, that A&P would seem necessary. Perhaps they (Sage) incorporates the same information into other courses that aren't formally "anatomy" courses.

My professor has stated that A&P is really not a critical course to become a nurse. Apparently some schools don't require it at all. With this in mind, I would love to be able to take it online. Yes, there's a lot of material, but the online professor should be able to assist you with your questions and struggles. I think the key is your own commitment - you have to put in the time, with no excuses.

Collect, from the Internet, various images of slides of the different tissues so you can compare and contrast even examples of the same tissues so you can identify them more easily. Relying on just one example, say from a textbook, can hurt you when lab practicals come around.

Collect, from the Internet, various images of slides of the different tissues so you can compare and contrast even examples of the same tissues so you can identify them more easily. Relying on just one example, say from a textbook, can hurt you when lab practicals come around.

Have you thought about volunteering at a hospital? I would think it would provide you with good insight into some of the inner workings, and provide you with experience that you could accentuate when it's time to start looking for a job after you finish schooling.

I may be misunderstanding.... You want to apply in January for the nursing program that starts in September, but you can't because you haven't yet completed AP2? AP2 is a prereq, not a coreq? You can't apply with the understanding that you will complete AP2 by the time the nursing program starts in Sept? I think the BSN question is a good one - if you're going to continue on to a BSN you could start taking courses that you'll need for the BSN. If it's an option, I'd take any classes that might increase my understanding of other subjects necessary for my degree. Chemistry? Medical Terminology? Advanced BIO classes. Coming from the opposite direction (someone who barely has time to take one class a semester) there are many classes I wish I had the time to take to increase my understanding of other subjects. Best of luck.