Okay I'm still reslly new to understanding a lot of the nursing stuff but I'm a little baffled right now. I'm planning to go into nursing at Pasco-Hernando Community college and have been looking intensely over the curriculum a lot. Something that is really confusing me is this:
These are the core NURSING classes for the generic RN track: Fundamentals of Nursing, Adult Nursing I, Maternal-Child Nursing, Adult Nursing II, Adult Nursing III, and Nursing Role & Scope. [that is just the NURSING classes, not the general education]
Now the LPN program has no pre reqs and these are the classes: Fundamentals of Nursing, Fundamentals of Nursing II, Body Structure and Function, Medication Administration/ Pharmacology, Medical Surgical Nursing I. Medical Surgical Nursing II, Gerontological Nursing, and Maternal-Child Nursing.
Is it just me or does it seem like the LPN is more intense and more ...well...'nursing' orientated?
I must sound really stupid asking this...but could someone PLEASE explain to me why the Nursing is suppose to be so intense but doesn't appear to be so on paper? Once again, sorry if I sound really dumb but I need to learn this! I have to figure out which program I want to go into...which really depends on which one I will learn more in....
I don't have any classes called "med/surg." I had a course called foundations for nurses, another called acute care, and one coming next year called complex care that focus almost solely on nurse-oriented interventions. There is very little pharm, almost no assessment, and nearly no patho mentioned in them. We're expected to know and integrate from prereqs and coreqs.
We have separate pathophysiology, pharmacology, health assessment, psychiatric and mental health, geriatrics, OB/Peds, community/public health courses to fill in the gaps as well as some other nurse-prefix time wasters.
The associate degree nurses here at my school have two courses called "med/surg," but that's all they get beyond one called maternal health and another called mental health and everything else is integrated into those seven credit hour courses.
If your program is accreditted it's got all it needs to have to get the job done.
ImThatGuy, BSN, RN
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I don't have any classes called "med/surg." I had a course called foundations for nurses, another called acute care, and one coming next year called complex care that focus almost solely on nurse-oriented interventions. There is very little pharm, almost no assessment, and nearly no patho mentioned in them. We're expected to know and integrate from prereqs and coreqs.
We have separate pathophysiology, pharmacology, health assessment, psychiatric and mental health, geriatrics, OB/Peds, community/public health courses to fill in the gaps as well as some other nurse-prefix time wasters.
The associate degree nurses here at my school have two courses called "med/surg," but that's all they get beyond one called maternal health and another called mental health and everything else is integrated into those seven credit hour courses.
If your program is accreditted it's got all it needs to have to get the job done.