Cali Nursing School Admissions: Standardizing Prereqs

[carolc415]

Hi all,

Does anyone have any insight into reasons why the CABRN does not standardize prerequisite courses for nursing school

applicants in California?

For instance, why would a student who has taken only an online Physiology course (no lab!) be eligible for UCSF, when community

colleges require the big 5-unit in-person semester lab sciences? Does anyone else find this frustrating and....um, wrong?

Does anyone else share my belief that admissions requirements should be 100% standardized for ALL students seeking an RN degree in California?

Please share your thoughts. Thanks!

[yikib38]

I agree. I ran into a problem like this and ended up having to delay taking the NCLEX to take a California Government course (mind you this was a pre-req specific to this cc district only, I had previously completed my pre-req's at 2 other community colleges and was unaware of this until the LAST semeter of Nursing school when the dept was filing for graduation).. over the summer to fufill the community college's AS requirement.

[newRNstudent02]

Yep, it's a total bummer. I wish they would standardize it like med school does for the entire nation. Sadly, I ended up taking a lot of unnecessary classes to get into my nursing school. I think most of the schools require the basics: anatomy, physio, micro, and english.

[nurse.sandi]

I am not from California, but yes you think it should be this way. Also, a national nurses license would be nice too.

[Michael CNA]

I agree with all of you! I think it's totally ridiculous! For example; Cal State Fullerton sends studens to Coastline CC for Chemistry 110 online and CSU San Marcos won't take an online Chem class! Totally insane!

[carolc415]

I guess it can be assumed that the bare minimum is adequate to prepare you for the NCLEX.

That speaks volumes about the massive issues that nursing education faces in our times. I also have a feeling that a lot of the insanity erupted when the 'nursing shortage' was announced. Schools made their entrance requirements less strict so they could fill their programs.