Why are there no nursing schools with built-in prerequisites?

[EMT-newbie]

It seems like a natural combination, lab sciences and nursing school, and yet everywhere I look the learning sequence is artificially split.

So many of the stories I read are "take your prerequisites and wait 1-3 years for a cohort." My problem with this is that life has to be put on hold while waiting, you cannot take on any substantial work because you might be pulled away in 6 months or 2 years.

Am I simply not seeing schools that, once accepted, give the full education? Or is there a historical or practical reason that I'm overlooking?

[mgs02]

As others have said, they DO exist, though they may be harder to find. My program had them built in, so I was able to go from start-finish in 5 semesters. (The 5th one was for a couple of more common pre-reqs and just to get back in the swing of the college thing before applying.) The whole curriculum was built around what we would be learning in the co-reqs, which really helped. We'd be learning the same thing in A&P that we'd be covering in nursing, so it really filled out the picture in a way that made it easier to understand and absorb.

Hi Haunani, what is the name of your program?

[mgs02]

The 2 year program local to me allows you to enter the program competing with your ACT score, and you would then take the prereqs at the same time as the nursing classes. Honestly, it seems nuts to me. I took a&p with no background in bio or chem and it floored me. I would have failed out of the program in a heartbeat if I took the nursing classes on top of a&p and whatever other prereq they could fit me in. You really need the foundation first. As for why BSN programs might not admit a person to go straight through, well, if if turns out you suck at school, I guess they don't want you to take the spot of someone who is good at it.

Hi Ixchel, what is the name of your program?