Nursing/Med school? Please help

[ecruz1820]

I am 18 years old and currently enrolled in a community college. I want to get a nursing degree, but I also want to go to medical school. I am completely aware that nursing is not easy and the nursing program does not fulfill all the requirements for med school. My question is, what should I do? Has anyone else done this before? I'm getting stressed out because I don't know what classes to choose and the advisors at my community college are not helpful. I wanted to get my bsn and work for a year or two before applying to med school. If anyone could offer suggestions it would be a great help!

[meeep, BSN, RN]

Traditional BSN programs take 4 years. I had no pre-reqs in my undergrad program. I entered as an 18 yr old fresh out of high school. Everything was built into the program beginning with 1st semester freshman year.

Not all BSN programs are like that. Most are not, in fact.

[THELIVINGWORST, ASN, RN]

Also the pre reqs usually involved in a BSN program are: Biology, AP 1, AP2, Microbiology, Inorganic Chem, Organic chem, some sort of college algebra, Statistics, Nutrition, Human development, plus all the usually humanities and fine arts electives.

My ADN required Bio, AP 1 and 2, micro, college algebra, communication, psych 101, US gov, English 101 and 102, and soc 101.

I was able to take all the pre reqs for the online bridge programs for RN to BSN while waiting to start my ADN program, so after I pass NCLEX all I have to do is the actual BSN bridge classes. From my start to finish it was 4 years and I was able to have a life through it all.

My advice is for you to make a list of pros and cons for each direction. Realize that you may change your mind once you become more acquainted with the medical/nursing world. I chose nursing because it provided me the opportunity to be a patient advocate, teach and have the family/social life I want.