Pre-nursing classes

[RebeccaMichelle]

Good evening,

I am applying for the nursing program offered at my college for fall of 2018. Most of the programs I have looked into require you to take chemistry, human development, and nutrition before you enter the program. However, my program does not require those three class I just mentioned. I am wondering why that is. My school has those classes available, so I am wondering if I should take them the summer before starting nursing school. Will I be missing out if I don't take them? I don't need them to get into the program at my school, but I am concerned that I will be missing classes that could be important.

[thecareerchanger, BSN]

While those courses are probably useful, I don't think you should waste time and energy taking classes not required as a prerequisite for your particular program of interest. You will be plenty busy in nursing school and my guess is that those topics will be incorporated in your program somehow. My program didn't require nutrition but a lot of our lectures incorporate nutrition in some way.

[RebeccaMichelle, ADN]

The school I am applying for is St Petersburg College. They offer ASN and BSN degrees. I think the reason I was considering taking classes that were not required was because I wanted to maybe get my BSN at the University of South Florida. At USF, they require those courses. However, I suppose I might as well get my BSN at SPC because it will be cheaper. I just like to be prepared, but I do not want to stress myself out this coming summer before nursing school.

[ami.625]

I am a very organized and well-prepared kind of person, so I definitely made sure that those classes were not a requirement. This program is for an ASN, maybe that is why? They also have an RN to BSN program that I will be doing after I get my associates. I looked at their requirements as well and they don't require those classes either for the BSN. I really wanted to relax this summer before nursing school but I have been going back and forth with wanting to take these classes over the summer. My program does not require ENC II either. I am okay with that though.

I live in Seattle and ADN programs here require CHEM, PSYC, A&P, and MICRO literally all the hard sciences! So I don't know if it's just your school or not but most ADN schools don't play when it comes to prerequisites they're usually the same as BSN programs.

[RebeccaMichelle, ADN]

I live in Seattle and ADN programs here require CHEM, PSYC, A&P, and MICRO literally all the hard sciences! So I don't know if it's just your school or not but most ADN schools don't play when it comes to prerequisites they're usually the same as BSN programs.

Yeah, they require Micro, A&P, and Psych, but they don't require Chem, human development or nutrition. I still have not decided if I wanted to take those classes anyway because I may want to get my BSN at USF and I know they require those classes.

[ami.625]

I personally think you should. Even if your ADN program doesn't require it, it will save you time in the long run when you hopefully pass your nclex you'd want jump straight into a BSN program instead of having to worry about those classes. If you end up not taking the extra classes all that matters is that your ADN program is accredited then anything they require should be fine!