Need Clarity For Planning School

edcampbe · Aug 2, 2006

First off, welcome to the Oregon Nurse Forum! I assume by education classes you are referring to the prerequisites necessary to attend nursing school. You can take your prerequisite courses from any accredited community college or university in Oregon; however, prerequisite requirements vary from nursing school to nursing school. You probably should determine which nursing schools you would like to apply to and contact them to determine which prerequisite classes are necessary for admission.

If you are planning to attend midwifery school in the future you will need to obtain a bachelor's degree in Nursing. You can obtain this degree (a BSN) at OHSU, University of Portland, Linfield, Willammette, Walla Walla, and now George Fox University. You can also attend a community college and receive your associate's degree in nursing (ASN or ADN); however, you'll eventually have to get your BSN before you can apply to midwifery school (this route will take longer).

If finances are one of the considerations in your choice for nursing school, you should look into applying to the University of Portland. They award several Providence scholarships each year which will pay all of your tuition ($50,000 value) for a three year commitment to work in one of the Providence hospitals in Oregon.

Let me know if you have any further questions. Good luck!

- Evan

momofmy3kids · Aug 2, 2006

Evan - thank you for the welcome!

I didn't know that about UOP. I'll have to check into that Providence scholarship...because I want to work for Providence when done...specifically St. Vincents. I'm very specific about my goal :)

Taunya

CuriousMe · Aug 2, 2006

Ok, I'm starting on my journey to become a nurse-midwife. I would like to attend OHSU. I was reading the new OCNE curriculum and I'm just totally confused.
Can I take my education classes at PCC and still go to OHSU? Or should I take them at Clackamas and then apply to Clackamas nursing program? I'm totally confused...help someone!
I would really like to stick with PCC & OHSU because I live on the westside and it's easier on my family.
Any suggestions would be great.

Hi,

Welcome to AllNurses!

The way the OCNE program goes is that all of the schools involved (including OHSU) have changed their admissions criteria and program curriculum to be the same as each other. You can do your first year (the pre-reqs) at any school. Once you're accepted to a nursing program in one of the community colleges in the consortium you can go to it for the next two years and get your ADN and sit for your boards, then you can do the last year to get your BSN at the same community college you've been at. They're setting up smart classrooms that will be connected to different OHSU classrooms, so you can finish that last year of your BSN right where you are. The first three years you pay the community college tuition and the last year, you pay OHSU tuition. It's a great deal!

Here's the link for the consortium, I didn't see PCC listed....but I didn't look very far.

http://ocne.org/schools.php

Hope this helps!

Peace,

Cathie

futureRN07 · Aug 8, 2006

I am currently a nursing student at OHSU and the way I understood it was the Nurse-Midwifery program required you to obtain you nursing degree at OHSU. There are four our five mid-wifery students that started with us nursing students our junior year and obtained their BSN after 5 terms. They then go on to do two more years before they obtain their masters degree. You might be able to transfer in but being able to get your BSN in a year and three months and then start into the masters program seems like a much quicker and better deal.