international student needs advice

Silverdragon102, BSN · Jan 12, 2005

hi, I'm a 23 year old guy from Ireland. i want to study nursing in the states. can anyone give me any advice on the fees, which areas or colleges that i could move to, and the requirements for getting into nursing? any help would be great. yu can post them here or mail me
Thanks guy's.:chair:

Have you tried looking in the international forum or do a search re training. Alot would depend on where you want to live and train, this would then dictate fees and I would image being an international student the fees would be very high.

ayndim · Jan 12, 2005

First off many nursing programs have long waits. Any where for 1 to 3 years seems to be the norm. We actually start as pre-nursing students. That usually entails taking the following classes. This may vary slightly by school. Some require all of them be done before the nursing program, while others will let you take some of them during. For instance, my school will allow you to take nutrition, eng 2, humanities and patho during nursing school. This is for an ADN (one level below a bachelors degree)

Eng 1 and 2

Nutrition

Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2 (This is pretty standard)

Microbiology

Chemistry

Psychology

A humanities elective

A CNA class or certification (not usually required for a BSN)

Pathophysiology

Reading

Math (I think college algebra or above. Never really looked into it as I have grad level math classes.)

We also have to take med terminology and a health care core class, which teaches about laws, ethics, etc. (you don't need these for the BSN)

For a BSN in addition to all of the above classes, you also need (at my local university)

Principles of sound reasoning

Statistics

Clinical Health Care Ethics

Health Care Organizations

Culture and Health

Human Development

Costs for BSN is about $13,000 per year for a non AZ resident. You can do the pre-reqs at the community college (which is where you would get a ADN) and it would be $1620 per semester. Our semesters are fall, spring and summer. Neither includes books. You have to buy those too.

If you go ADN you are looking at about $12000 or so. If you do all at the uni about $52000. Or pre-reqs at cc and bsn at uni about $30,000.

Hope that helps.