To all the new BSN GRADS

SummitRN, BSN, RN · Nov 18, 2009

Stats is easy and EXTREMELY useful in medicine and life in general. Every highschool graduate should have it. Anyone in medicine should have it for sure.

Anyone in medicine should have Chemistry.

Every BSN program that I have seen that doesn't explicitly require Chemistry has some mention in their application brochure that "if you haven't taken Chemistry, you should in order to do well."

Isabel-ANP-BC · Nov 18, 2009

Hi--

I'm not a recent BSN grad (almost 2 years ago now, but...)

I went through Stonybrook University's online RN-BSN program. They are part of the State University of NY system.

I had to have chemistry as part of my ASN program, so did not have to take it at the BSN level.

I had nursing research at the BSN level; stats required before you could take that. Nursing research and epidemiology where both stats based and paper based.

Online classes great except that the school requires specialized software (Lotus Notes, which everything comes through), so you need a computer to load it onto. No web-based access. For the most part, professors accessible, understanding, and easy to get a hold of. Quick responses for the most part, understanding about full time employment and school.

Hard versus easy is relative. Some courses where easy, like the focused reading/research course I took. Others like pharm and health assessment were harder. Nursing research was a bear, but I don't like stats much, so...YMMV

In state NY rates. I think I spent an average of $2,000/semester over 2 years, including summers. So about $10,000. The books the first two semesters were expensive, but you used them for the entire program and I'm even using some of them now in the MSN/ANP program.

Izzy

PANURSE15009 · Nov 18, 2009

Thank you so much for the reply, I greatly appreciate it!

Rhonda