When did things start to click~?

Don't worry too much about the little stuff in your patho class. Honestly you will probably not remember at lot of the minute details a month or two from now. What matters is that you are able to grasp the concepts and have a general understanding of how bodily processes are affected by diseases and different alterations. You will forget much of this information, and it will either be reinforced or further forgotten through the schooling process.

You will probably not have a super strong understanding of the patho affecting your patients until you are employeed as a nurse and encounter patients with the same ailments multiple times.

Don't worry not too much about understanding every little detail, focus on the big picture of how certain ailments affect a certain system broadly. It will come together in time.

Good luck!

Thank you, that really makes me feel better! I have a bad habit of getting bogged down with the minutiae - I am ok with the big picture, but I always have this nagging feeling like I'm missing something or neglecting something.

I'll take what you said to heart! Thank you again :)

It all started clicking for me when I started my med-surg class because the patho is important.

It all started clicking for me when I started my med-surg class because the patho is important.

This is great to hear! Right now I've got a strong grasp on it, but nothing to apply it to - it's a very awkward place to be in haha. Now I can't wait til med-surg!

Even in med-surg, I hear things about ailments and treatments but clinical is where it's like OH! got it. For example, we just went over tube feedings and the teacher said listen with the stethoscope to hear the whoosh of air. Didn't get it. Then we had a patient on tube feedings and we listened to the woosh and understood why. Your grade is excellent and since nursing school IS typically difficult, it seems like you know more than the typical student and what you are expected to know for the class. You're doing fine, no worries! Good luck!

Thank you! Your reply is comforting! It's making me look forward to clinicals even more now (scheduled to start those in January!)

I've also heard it starts to come together during Adult I/II, but doesn't really solidify until we're working :)

So I was great at spitting stuff back out on a test during school, but these things did not really start to gel in my brain until I started my job. Now, I literally get to watch how formerly abstract concepts like compensatory mechanisms for metabolic or respiratory pH imbalances play out in my patients and it all makes a LOT more sense. Nursing school is a nice foundation for the job, but the job is where you'll really start to apply what you know and build off of it!

Thank you!! This is really comforting to read! Now I just have to make it through nursing school haha