Just some general nursing questions

[thenurseguy88]

Just had a few nursing school questions

1. Why do certain schools in Md only offer fall admission ?

2. If everyone wants Bsn nurses , will 2year programs soon become extinct ?

3 . If you graduate from a two year program what is your job prospects/opportunities like ?

4. Why does each school in Maryland 4years in particular have completely different prerequisites , making it almost impossible to apply to multiple schools at once ?

some answers /input on these would be appreciated

[not2bblue]

Can't answer one, but they may do it because more people apply for the fall semester (high school graduation being in summer) but here in Florida, they admit all year so I'm not sure.

2. Possibly but probably not. The ANA has been suggesting that all nurses have at least a BSN since the 60's and it hasn't happened yet. There are still LPN programs. But, for your own security, get the BSN, even if you get an ASN first. Honestly, many ASN trained nurses have better bedside skills, but it depends on the program.

3. Depends. Here where I live, most of the hospitals are Magnet status, which is an accreditation program that requires a certain percentage of nurses to have a BSN. Since people may leave their job, it is safer to pump up the number of BSN trained nurses so as to not drop below that requirement. It is hard for them to only find BSN though; this requirement is new and many working nurses only have an ASN since that was all that was needed for decades. They used to say BSN required on hire, and now they say BSN required within a certain time frame that is reasonable from ASN-BSN. I did mine in exactly one year in an online program. It was difficult, but I worked full time the whole time and graduated with honors so very doable depending on the program requirements.

4. Because the Board of nursing doesn't specify all the requirements so each school can choose their own. However, most will want Anatomy and Physiology (usually 2 parts with a lab), microbiology, chemistry, algebra, possibly statistics. Non math and science electives are school choice. I got an AA and covered all my prereqs for ANY public University in the state of Florida. Sorry, I did live in Md for a while (I went to Prince George's community college for a while) but I have not lived there in years.

Seriously, I went the ASN route with BSN online and it worked out well for me since I could work as a nurse while completing my BSN online. Public state schools both times, cost me 25K for every single class. So not really that much difference than just going straight BSN, plus I worked as a nurse for several years, making more money and many hospitals do tuition reimbursement.