Whats an ASN program all about?

Nursing Students ADN/BSN

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I have a question for anyone that has completed an ASN program. What percentage of the program was learning medical knowledge?

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Not sure I understand your question. First of all, technically speaking, medical knowledge can be considered different from nursing knowledge. Medical and nursing are 2 different areas of study.

Do you mean how much of the education is based in the sciences?

sounds to me like they are asking specifically how much of it focused on the actual care if the patients?

Sorry, I see now that my phrasing was way off. I mean to ask how much time is spent learning about conditions, medications, the body, and proper treatment versus culture, dealing with people, etc.

Well when I look at the program that I am personally hoping to attend it seems like the medical stuff is almost 75% of the stuff, so long as I'm counting the clinicals, without the clinical stuff it seems pretty much split down the middle (for the course I want to take) could be different for you.

Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Sorry, I see now that my phrasing was way off. I mean to ask how much time is spent learning about conditions, medications, the body, and proper treatment versus culture, dealing with people, etc.
I would say that 90 percent of the time in my ASN completion program had been spent learning about pharmacology, pathophysiology, nursing care, hands-on procedural skills, therapeutic communication, cultural competence, and planning the care of the patient.

As previously mentioned, there's a medical model of care provision and a nursing model of care provision. Nurses learn the nursing model, not the medical model.

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