MSN Nurse Practioner question

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Greetings! I have a question in reference to a nurse practitioner program--which would be a masters program. Do you need a bachelors degree in nursing as a prerequisite? In other words if you have an Associates degree as an RN and a Bachelors degree in a non nursing field--for instance Business Management, can you still enroll in a Nurse Practitioner program?

Any thoughts and info would be most appreciated. I did a bit of Google Fu but it was difficult to pick through it so I thought I would just ask:) Thanks much!

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That would depend on the individual school -- some programs will accept you without a BSN, others won't. Your best bet would be to speak directly to schools you're interested in.

Best wishes.

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I assumed that much of it was program dependent, I just wondered if there was a standard that was more or less prevalent. Thank you much for the help!

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Well, requiring a BSN is definitely the "prevalent" standard, and a student with a BSN would have a wider range of schools from which to choose -- but there are quite a few schools that don't require it, and even some schools that say they require a BSN might be willing to work with a student who was otherwise attractive to them. If I were in that situation, I wouldn't rule out any school that interested me without actually speaking to them ...

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Moved to the post-grad forum (vs. the GN forum) to encourage responses.

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