What do you wish you'd studied better in prereqs?

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So I've asked before, what to brush up on before NS - and have rec'd some good information and have done a bit of reading and remembering. To be more specific now that I'm a few weeks from starting - if you wish you had brushed up on any system in physiology or anything at all, what would it have been? Was there anything in your patho or early nursing classes that you thought "shoot, I really should have studied that better" back in A&P, chem, or micro?

Any suggestions are appreciated!!

Thanks :)

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Fluid and electrolytes.. cardio and respiratory!!!:up:

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Electrolytes fo' sho' :cool: That stuff is just awful as far as I'm concerned... oh yeah and endocrine system. That makes my head want to explode.

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nothing really. In fact I wish I could go back and not study for some classes, Medical Terminology for example was pretty much a useless class. Save for sphygmomanometer pretty much all the words we use now are ones we didn't learn.

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CV and respiratory for sure and fluid & electrolytes!

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Specializes in LTC/Rehab.

i studied pretty hard and really understood all my micro and a and p but it's been so long i've forgotten a lot. i guess i kind of wish i had taken patho.. trying to get an overview of it at the moment by reading 'patho made easy'

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Thanks for the tips! As I suspected, it's mainly the things I definitely need to refresh on. Interesting point on terminology and I am glad you said that - I took med term a year ago and pulled out my workbook to review roots that I've forgotten. I'll spend my time reviewing F&E, endocrine, circ, etc...

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Terminology is important for documentation and in the clinical setting. I never took med term (it's not required) I can't remember exactly what I said but a doctor promptly corrected me.. he said something to the effect of "in this profession it's called....."

But, I still wouldn't spend too much time on it...soak it up in A&P

Good luck! :)

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I will echo what other posters said about fluid and electrolytes. That seems to pop up every semester. Also I cannot remember if this was taught in the prereqs but I would definitely read up on aterial blood gas interpretation. Good luck in school!

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I would brush up on diet/nutrition and anatomy and physiology.

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instead of med-term they should offer latin and/or greek. A few semesters of latin and you'll be able to figure out like 90% of all words. The others are greek based.

Or in med-term they should go over abbreviations, stuff like LOS, POD3, ORIF, TKR etc; I did not know those until I was getting report in clinical and had to ask my nurse, like a dumbass. lol

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I am working on a list of medical abbreviations I don't know so I can review those and hopefully not be totally lost when I get to my first clinicals. Definitely another language!

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