Courses to take while waiting to start nursing at CSCC?

[notallwhowander]

Hi Friends,

So I'm starting on this journey of nursing school at Columbus State (hopefully) - I need to get all my pre-requisites in order before applying, but I hope to apply for Spring '12 (seeing as how I did not get on fast enough to get into NURC102 this quarter!). I already have a bachelor's degree so that eliminates a lot of pre and co-requisites for me, leaving only the biology classes and a psychology course (and of course NURC101 and 102). My question is this: Should I take any of the multi-competency health courses, such as phlebotomy and EKG - or will this be overly redundant and not helpful? I'm thinking it would help me get a job as a PCA or MST at one of the area hospitals so I can have some experience starting out. If this is wrong, or anybody has any other suggestions for me, please let me know!

Kati

[notallwhowander, MSN, RN, APRN]

Thanks again everybody! I got into NURC 101/102/CHEM113/MULT100/PSY100. I'm still fighting with advisors at CSCC to be able to take BIO100 (none of my high school credits were accepted since it's been more than 4 years since I was there). I'm getting really excited - I've already started reading through all the assignments for MULT100 online!

[foreverLaur]

Wow - that will be a very very intense quarter for you!!!

[shawn_yle]

I know it may be too late for this info to be useful, but if you can get into Bio 100 Web still you might want to do that. Its self paced for the most part. I think there were 4 day windows for quizzes and 2 day windows for exams. It's a nice refresher course, at least it was for me, (it had been 20 yrs since I took biology) and I am finding I need a lot of that information now in Bio 215. We are doing a lot of foundation work relating to DNA and Chem 113 concepts. At least our section is. With only a week and 1/2 in it may not be too late to add the Bio. BTW I loved Mult 101 and took it web. That was completely self-paced and I could finished it in a few weeks if I had wanted to. Good luck this quarter and in applying.