I am entering Pasadena City College in June 2010 as a first-time student. I plan to clear the four prequisites before applying to the RN (AA) program. I had spoken to the director of the program (or one of them); he told me it is possible to earn the RN license at PCC, but due to management and course orders and prequisites, it is ~NOT~ possible to earn an RN in a year; at the earliest, maybe a year and a half if I'm done a semester early (stacking up on courses). My father said the same.
However, I was really hoping I could be finished with a BSN in just three years, rather than the normal four. Can anyone help me out with this? I was planning to go to a CSU (either in San Jose, as a set of relatives live there from my dad's side, or Los Angeles; the rest are too far out). I emailed the lady who runs and operates that division and she said that it usually is two years after obtaining an AA and most people don't even manage to finish in that time period, often it takes as long as five. I told her I would be willing to stack up on classes but she never returned my message. I'm impatient. At the same time, I am not sure how it works.
It's not even so much about stacking up on courses, but all of the nursing courses follow a sequence, so for example let's say in Fall you are doing all NUR 100 courses, there might only be four classes but you can't add one or two more if they are from the NUR 200 sequence because they require NUR 100 to be completed first. Some colleges don't allow nursing courses to be broken out of sequence or taken during the summer (my school doesn't, the only people who take nursing during the summer are the accelerated students and students that have to repeat a semester due to failing the HESI)
Those alone take two years and even with an AA I don't think you could knock out all the core classes in just one year, even with summer.
My BSN is taking me 5 years, 3 for the pre-reqs and core requirements, 2 for the nursing classes.
CuriousMe
2,642 Posts
Is that including pre-requisites?
I think the OP is looking to complete all college coursework (Gen ed and nursing classes) in three years.