I'm not even enrolled yet but just by looking at the catalog for fall 2003 I can already see they have some major scheduling problems.

Basically, the RN program starts in the fall. They gave me a curriculum when I applied. They have three nursing courses, BIO 201 (A&P) and PSY 200 on the curriculum for 1st semester fall. Since the nursing classes will be out of town, I was just looking over it to see what my schedule "might" be like next fall.

There is no problem with the nursing courses, they all correspond and are scheduled together with reasonable breaks. The problem is you can't take BIO 201. The only two BIO classes offered are the same dates as one of the nursing classes and the lab. What are you suppose to do?

I had thought about just taking my preq. and then applying for the nursing program Fall of 2005 but my scholarship doesn't start paying until I am "accepted" into nursing school.

What a pain. Has anyone else ran into this problem?

Sorry so long.

Have you considered taking these classes this coming spring or summer semester? Not only would that solve your scheduling conflict but, taking prereqs along with nursing classes can be very difficult. Another option is to talk to the nursing department and make them aware of the problem, sometimes they can arrange to have another section of a class for nursing students. Good luck!

I suppose I'll just do what I have to do. If I can't take the A&P in the fall I'll just have to take whatever else I can work into my schedule. I just can't believe they would print out a curriculum to follow then not have those classes.

I don't want to wait too long about getting those BIO classes out of the way. I'll mention it to the counselor since I know I'll have more questions sooner or later.

Can you take consecutive BIO classes? For instance, can you take a 100 BIO class and a BIO 200 class at the same time?

Try talking to the nursing department and letting them know about the scheduling conflict. A similar thing happened at my school because the different departments often set their schedules independently of each other. Once the nursing dept knew that there was a conflict, they were able to get the bio dept to add another section to their schedule.

just a quick question...were you ever on babycenter.com??? your "name" is very familiar to me! lol

next, I dont know about schools down in the states, but up here in Canada, you cannot take a level 1 and a level 2 class concurrently. They have to be taken in order.

Like someone else suggested, why not try taking some of the classes now, that may help!

Good luck!

FutureNurse, I think I was for a little while but I don't visit that site much, I just don't have the time. I'll have four dks soon and sometimes I just need a little encouragement from other moms with large families. I liked that site, from what I recall.

You're right, I'll talk to the nursing coordinator. Thanks.

I am convinced that schools do this ON PURPOSE. They all say that nursing school is very hard and that you really should take ALL support classes before you get into the actual nursing program so this is there way of MAKING you take at least some of the support classes before you get into the program. My school does it too....they make the deadline for application about a month before the semester ends and you must have all the prereqs. completed (not doing them in the semester that the deadline falls in) or they reject application. Which means that you always have a semester between when you get in when you finished prereqs. so you WILL take more support classes before the program starts. So I see it as a blessing in disguise....I'd rather be held back a semester and make better grades than be overwhelmed and have bad grades.

I know at my school they don't offer that many A&P 2 classes in the fall. I asked an adviser and they said most schools offer more A&P 1 classes in the fall and more A&P 2 classes in the spring because that's when most people take it due to the fact that H.S. students graduate in May and many start college in the Fall after they graduate. When he pointed that out it did make sense to me.

I have a sort of scheduling problem too.. my school allows part time but if you are part time you get all messed up because the progression is made for the full-timers. So, next semester I won't be taking one of the classes and it won't be offered again for a YEAR. The problem is that it's a prereq for all the other clinicals so now I won't be starting clinicals for another whole year - which also means I'll have a year between assessement/patho/pharmacology and starting clinicals