I need your help Allnurses.

Are you at Michigan State? If so, I went there from 80-83 and I took a real interesting class called Science technology and society--a biomedical ethics class that counted that fulfilled the social science requirement and was an easy A

Nice suggestion! I gather these are really interesting classes.

Sounds like you need a better advisor.

Our program has nursing advisors who are willing to sit with each student and find nursing electives that will boost them to full time. Of course, you can take whatever you want. I personally would rather take an English course because I love reading and writing. Just find something that will fit in with your schedule. And make it fun! School is tough enough.

If the program you are in leads to an Associate's degree, take something that will help you when you go to get your Bachelor's degree, like nutrition or psychology or organic chemistry. If you are in a Bachelor's program, take something you are interested in, since you obviousely cannot take anything Nursing, take culture and health, or diversity, or ethics, or spanish, or anything that will apply to your Master's degree. Trust me, you never know when you might go back to school.

My two cents.

I had to get 9 Arts & Humanities credits, so I signed up for Ceramics, Photography and Abnormal Psych summer term. Ceramics was WAY fun, and photography was a breeze - it was a list of subjects to shoot (a thin blue line, a yellow circle, a reflection of yourself, etc). The abnormal psych prof creeped me out, but that's a whole new post. I highly recommend ceramics. Do something fun and artistic that won't require a paper or reading.

Will they share tuition with another school? Some schools will, some won't. You could take a transfer course from an online school. Unfortunately I would have to say to take something that is not too difficult. Something for a BSN or MSN program would be great, but that is already a a heavy courseload so maybe something as an elective that is not too hard. No papers involved. Could you CLEP something for 3 credits? Or would that not count? How about something related to education, special education, or management? Are you going to get a school nurse certificate? Education courses are useful. Do you want to move up the ladder in nursing? Management courses are useful.

How about a beginners course in Spanish if available. You will need it later in practice I bet. Can youo do it on line and will you get credid for it if you do? These are questions you will probably need answers to.
All the best. All your hard work will be well worth it in the long run.
macspuds

if you need an elective that you can take that won't interfer with your other courses, do that. what you don't want to do with the work load that you do have is taken another course that will overwhelm you and have so much work that you fall behind in your nursing courses. good luck

I don't know how your program works, but 9 credit hours is enough, when it comes to nursing classes! They take all of our time, as it is, with homework, clinicals, classes, & studying.