Taking A&P while in nursing school... how crazy hard is it?

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I'm just curious about how common this is, and how difficult it is to have both A&P and nursing courses at the same time. I will be starting my nursing classes in the fall and will be taking A&P 1 then, and A&P 2 in the spring (and nothing else with them.) I don't know if I'm being naive, but I'm not really worried about it except that I hear people on the pre-nursing forums talking about how horrendous A&P is. While I realize this is on a totally different level, I did well in A&P in high school without trying at all and it seemed like the majority of my classmates were having a really hard time. Anyway, I'm not trying to sound like a pompous jerk, I'm just kinda worried that I'm not worried enough if that makes sense. It seems like alot of people take A&P ahead of time. In my mind, 12 credits is 12 credits. I had Bio, College Algebra, Statistics, and Speech this past fall, and while it was definitely hard and alot of work, I managed to do well in all the classes. I know there's no way to tell ahead of time, but I want to be real about this going in... so any opinions on the difficulty of doing both at the same time would be greatly appreciated.

Awesome! (: Best of luck with the A&Ps over the summer. You will definitely not regret taking them before you start your nursing courses, since nursing courses including lecture, lab, and clinical are VERY time consuming.

Good Luck!

Congrats on getting registered for A&P over the summer. I tried that but even my CC only offered the 1 over the summer. At least you will have it out the way.

It's done at many schools. I personally cannot imagine doing it, but people obviously make it through!

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