Question about nursing school

[newbie08]

I'm working towards an associate degree in nursing starting this fall and I was wondering if nursing students have to do anything with cadavers?? I was reading an article the other day about a medical student talking about his cadaver and it just got me wondering if nursing students had to go that in depth with A&P too??

Thanks!!

[NurseKatie08, MSN]

We do not work with them at my school.

Us either, we did fetal pigs in A&P

[MB37]

I started at LSUHSC in New Orleans just before Katrina - one reason the nursing students get them is that we took A&P during nursing school instead of as a prereq, limiting the number of cadavers that would be needed. Unfortunately, Katrina flooded my school after only two weeks, and I was forced to move to Florida for my husband's job. I went to USF here in Tampa instead, where we took A&P lab ONLINE without even a fish to dissect. Florida has cheap tuition, and it's only because they provide a pretty crappy education and offer as many things as possible online without actual instruction or hands-on experience. When Louisiana's educational system is considerably better than the place you moved to, you know there's a significant problem. Thankfully, we're moving back to New Orleans in a few years.