Help, prereq dilemma.

[Scooby-Dooby-Doo]

Hi there,

I am a mere nursing student with hopes to go to CRNA school one day. The time to register for classes is here and I am having doubts. I took the advantage to register for some MSN classes. I signed up for "Ethics in advanced nursing practice," "Education informatics in advanced nursing practice," and "Epidemiology and biostatistics in advanced practice nursing."

My worries/concerns: Would CRNA schools see this as a good thing in general? Would they care at all? Is this a waste of time to take these classes for CRNA schools? Is it worth it/the effort too? What would admissions think about this? I understand that I have to contact a specific school to get a straight answer, but I would like to get a general feeling, an overall idea if I should do this. I did contact one CRNA school and asked them about the "biostats/Epi" course. They said that they'll take it for their "statistics" requirement. These were the only classes that I could sign up for since I don't have priority being still a BSN student (no RN yet) and the other classes like advanced patho and adv health assessment were full. The MSN/NP students got priority in registering.

I understand that they like to see sciences classes such as organic chem/biochem, which is something that I plan to get later as well (I'm still working on my 3rd pathophysiology course), but it's these MSN classes that I think might have some use. So the bottom line is that I just wanna make sure that I am registering for something that isn't wasting my time and is worthwhile for these classes.

Any advices? Comments and opinions? Criticisms or thoughts?

[wtbcrna, MSN, DNP, CRNA]

The first two are basically worthless for your end goal, and the third class can count as your stats prereq for NA school. I would personally just take an undergrad stats class and drop the third class too.

[detroitdano]

The first two aren't worth the paper your transcript will be printed on. And it won't help your application any, because as you said, schools care more about science courses.

Biostats is overkill; you likely just need some stats course, but not biostats. Check with schools you're considering, and take whatever they tell you meets their criteria.

I cannot emphasize enough, look at the schools you may apply to and take whatever they tell you to. Taking extra courses just 'cuz is going to do nothing but waste your time and money.

[Scooby-Dooby-Doo]

Thanks for your opinions guys! I needed some idea to see if this was good or not. Thanks!

Detriotdano, I'm trying to "sneak in" a graduate nursing class called "pharmacological principles across the life span." It's the only graduate level pharm class being taught the coming semester in my entire school that I looked. I've already taken undergrad pharm and there are some schools that require pharm. I got a B+ in that course but that's because I had the "I'm young and didn't care college attitude". Now I realized that I could have done better and want to make up for it.

wtbcrna, I decided to listen to your personal opinion and dropped all 3 and possibly adding a class called "elementary statistics." I already took undergrad intro to stats with a B+, but I'll take it again to get a better grade. Again, I had that "I'm 17 and didn't care attitude." Now I'm 23 about to graduate and realized that I want to be a crna after shadowing some of the at my job.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

How do you have enough availability in your schedule to fit these classes in? I had four electives over the course of my four year BSN program and one of them was extra because I tested out of my math requirement.

[Scooby-Dooby-Doo]

How do you have enough availability in your schedule to fit these classes in? I had four electives over the course of my four year BSN program and one of them was extra because I tested out of my math requirement.

My last semester has only 2 required nursing classes (leadership and senior preceptorship). I finished all my electives and required classes.