Gearing up for NS

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As some of you know, I'm in a very unique nursing program.

It's a 1+2+1 program with a liberal arts college (years 1+4) and a college of nursing (years 2+3) where you take the nursing prerequisites in year 1, nursing in years 2+3, graduate with an ASN from the CON after year 3, finish the liberal arts and BSN requirements and in year 4 and graduate from the LAC with a BSN. If that's confusing...sorry. Basically, you get an ASN and BSN in 4 years.

Last night, we had the dinner for freshman, and it was great!

We went over to the hospital/CON and got a tour led by a first year nursing student and a faculty member, so we got to see the facility and the CON itself including classrooms, the library and the lab, ask questions etc. Then we had a dinner where there were even more first year students that we ate and talked with and then had a Q&A session with.

I will admit, it was extremely intimidating. A lot of information was given to us, some of it terrifying...but it made me really excited as well. That's gonna be me in the fall! I think that was the extra push I needed to see how much I want this and to know how hard I'm gonna have to work at A&P II this summer, but how worth it all the stuff I've had to deal with thus far will be.

Orientation starts August 18th, and I can't wait!

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Interesting....so you don't complete any more nursing classes in your 4th year?

It's interesting to see other programs. Mine is a BS in nursing program, and we have one year of pre-reqs then 3 years of nursing program, with the last year being mostly our preceptorship. But we're set up to work with ADN students and they take their last year with us, taking epidemiology, Public Health, Leadership and then an additional 3 month preceptorship.

Congrats on getting in to your program!!!

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The fourth year is mostly nursing classes, but BSN ones, not ASN ones.

We take:

NSG 315 - Health Assessment

NSG 330 - Professional Issues & Trends

NSG 375 - Health Promotion & Protection

NSG 410 Management/Leadership

NSG 350 - Research in Nursing

NSG 420 - Family Health

NSG 440 - Community Health

NSG 461 - Principals of Teaching and Learning

BIO 435 - Epidemiology

Two CORE classes (the last two required -- my college has 14 required CORE coursesl)

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

I like the design of your curriculum. It makes sense to me -- and does a good job of illustrating the differences between ADN and BSN preparation.

Thanks for sharing it ... and good luck!

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I like it too. I think it's a great design...and I love how unique it is. It's also better than the other colleges I applied to because clinicals start so soon.

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The fourth year is mostly nursing classes, but BSN ones, not ASN ones.

We take:

NSG 315 - Health Assessment

NSG 330 - Professional Issues & Trends

NSG 375 - Health Promotion & Protection

NSG 410 Management/Leadership

NSG 350 - Research in Nursing

NSG 420 - Family Health

NSG 440 - Community Health

NSG 461 - Principals of Teaching and Learning

BIO 435 - Epidemiology

Two CORE classes (the last two required -- my college has 14 required CORE coursesl)

That makes a lot more sense. I misunderstood and thought that you were just taking upper level liberal arts courses in year 4....hence my confusion.

It actually is pretty close to our curriculum. We do Community Health & Epidemiology at the end of our Junior year, but it's considered our first "senior" level classes.

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We have to wait til our senior year to do community health etc. because we need to finish the ASN curriculum our junior year.

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