Started A & P I last night...

[NursePru]

I like my professor. The final is not cummulative...so far so good. Does anyone have any study tips besides note cards? I ordered the "You Are Smarter Than You Think" book, but it won't arrive until late September. Any tips would be appreciated :)

[HazeK]

I use the knowledge I gained in A&P every day

in my nursing practice of 30 years!!!

Knowing the "how and why"s behind procedures and testing improved one's nursing skills and patient care!

Doing well in A&P will be a good investment in your career!

Good luck!

Haze

[nurse2be in ny]

I just added Hole's web site to my favorites list. It's nice that it doesn't require a passcode; Marieb's site does.

[shyne]

I used index cards and also did some of the questions at the end of the chapters. Those worked very well for me when I took a&p.

[PlanetCaroline]

Make A & P a passion & since you have 24/7 access to a living body...

-spend time palpating your condyles, ridges, and spines

-every time you have an ache, try to figure out with tendon, ligament, or muscle is bothering you. Where are the attachments & what innervates them?

-compliment people with, "Your rectus femoris is positively yummy. Do you work run?"

-don't say to your SO, "@#?!@# I hit my thumb with a hammer." Say, "Jeepers, I hit the distal phalanx of my thumb. But I can still extend & flex it at the ------joint." (Already forgot the name of the joint there)

Remember if you don't use it, you lose it.

[kahumai, RN]

Alot of A&P revolves around knowing the pathway of this, and the route of that. I'm a very visual learner and I find that drawing pictures helps with with everything. Yes, it sounds like a very fourth-grade thing to do, but I've used it in all my classes, including pathophysiology right now and I always seem to not only know it for the test, but retain it for the final and beyond. It's especially helpful when learning *all* of the pathways of the spinal column and the hormones of the endocrine system. And also review your notes after class; it's amazing what looking at them a second time will do to your memory. Good luck!

[lunakat]

Hmm, a couple of months ago someone posted a few great websites for Anatomy and Physiology on the boards, you will have to search it out. okay, here are some websites for ya!

A&P Web-sites

Histology

http://medocs.ucdavis.edu/CHA/402/studyset/histo.htm

http://www.histol.chuvashia.com/atl...stive-05-en.htm

G.I. System

http://www.siumed.edu/~dking2/erg/gicells.htm

Cat dissection

http://bio.bd.psu.edu/cat/index.htm

http://www.bio.psu.edu/Faculty/Wate...toralindex.html

All body systems

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

A&P I & II

http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/rchute.html

Cerebral Spinal Fluid

http://anatome.ncl.ac.uk/tutorials/...text/page9.html

Skeletal system

http://www.csus.edu/anth/physanth/bones.htm

Knee, Shoulder, Hip

http://www.sportsknee.com/patient.htm

credit for these websites goes to a post made by vettech