An ADN Degree is NOT a "2 year" Degree

[West_Coast_Ken]

i've read yet another thread about the adn degree being "just a 2 year degree." i already have an as degree (with honors) and a ba degree. i know very well what the traditional "2 year" & "4 year" degrees are like...

i will finish my adn degree in may '07 so i've been at this (adn) now for a few years and there simply is no way to compare an as with an adn so i suggest we correct this gross lack of understanding.

when someone says "that's a 2 year degree" tell them it is not.

#1 the adn degree is not a "2 year degree" (not in california at least).

#2 it's just earned at a place that mostly handles 2 year degrees but an adn is more like a 3+ years degree full time.

#3 with a previous ba, it will have taken me 3 years full time to earn my adn (and no i did not retake any classes or take a class that was not required).

#4 you'd better hope there's more to an adn degree than what's involved for a typical as.

to change things we need to correct misinformation so if someone thinks an adn degree is like a typical as degree, please do some effective "pt teaching!"

regards,

ken

[BSNtobe2009]

Speaking as a person with a BS and as a person that is persuing an ADN, I will have to respectfully disagree with you on that one. Not all schools are the same and seem to vary by area.

Many of the CC I looked at will take high school chemistry as the chem (no college level needed), and you take AP I and AP II as part of the program, so it's designed to be completed in 2 years.

The only programs I have seen that require a ton of pre-reqs before even being admitted is the hospital-based programs.

Once I apply to the BSN program at my alma mater, the only "pre-req" I have to take there is probability and statistics and microbiology, which I plan on taking at the CC, and they will accept it.

[smk1, LPN]

our progam is a full year of prereqs fulltime and 2 full years for the actual nursing program so the soonest you can finish is 3 years of actual class time, sometimes will tak longer because of applcation dates and acceptance lag times etc... but the actual academic program is 3 full years.

[PMFB-RN, RN]

The program I attended (http://www.swtc.edu)can and is done in two years (I did it in one, really two 4 month semesters, as I was already an LPN) by many people. I would estimate that about half of my class already had many or all their pre/co-reqs when they entered the 4 semester nursing program. The other half (my estimate) did the whole program in two years. We had one girl who entered the program at age 16 thought a program that Wisconsin has for high school students and graduated as an ADN-RN at age 18, but she was an exception, very mature as she had practicaly raised 6 younger brothers and sisters by then.

The hospital I work at hires several 20 year old new grads each year.