Statistics & Physical Assessment course at the same time...too hard?

Tencat12 · Jul 7, 2018

Is this for an FNP? If it is, yes it's too much. I was told my FNP assessment class should be either stand alone or with a fluff class. Both assessment and stats are time consuming. It would be especially hard if you are working full time to boot.

beckm097 · Jul 8, 2018

It's for either FNP or WHNP. I haven't decided yet so instead this fall I'm going to take stats and physical assessment until I can figure out with program to apply for next fall. I work Monday through Thursday, but I have two kids. So I'm wondering if the combo is way too much! Thank you so much for your advice, I really appreciate it!

Oldmahubbard · Jul 8, 2018

Yes, I think this is too much. Statistics, unless you have a real mathematical bent, is very demanding.

Rocknurse, MSN, APRN, NP · Jul 9, 2018

Speaking as someone who's done both of these classes, yes...it's too much. They were the two most time-consuming and difficult in my program. I think I would have hung myself doing them together. In my school physical assessment is a really heavy class. We had to learn a whole physical assessment process off by heart and be able to perform it timed, and perfectly executed as well as write up an entire assessment word perfect from memory also timed. We had a lab every week and just went over and over it until we knew it, and on top of that had multiple lectures about each particular anatomic region each week. Statistics was just awful. Again, the class was very rigorous with multiple quizzes each week and learning a whole new terminology. Honestly, if you can avoid doing them together I would.