Nursing major with double minor in Spanish and business?

[Robinbird55]

Hi! I will be a senior in high school in MA this fall. I want to complete a four year BSN program and become an RN in college and want advice on a minor. I recently realized a minor in Spanish would be helpful for a nurse. Apparently you could be paid more and/or have a better chance at a job, depending on where you are. I've taken up to Spanish 3 in high school, which is probably as far as I'll go before college. However, I'm far from fluent.

I'm also interested in a business/management minor but have never taken a business class before. Could it be helpful to do so, possibly for later in my nursing career? I know nurse/healthcare managers get paid more, and it might be helpful if I wanted to branch out from being an RN later.

So, do you think it is possible to double minor while in a nursing program? If not, what minor would be most useful?

(I know nursing is a demanding major, but I am a hard worker, a good student, and dedicated to learning!)

Thanks for the help!

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Most nursing programs have few/ no electives. A minor is constructed out of the hard sciences for those programs. These sciences are requirements.

Spanish is the more useful of the two, but you may not have space for it in your degree program. However, nothing prevents you from pursuing it on a non-credit basis at some point either between semesters or post-graduation.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

As MMJ said, there will be no room in your program to double minor.

My nursing program (also in MA) offered 3 electives over the course of 4 years. A minor required 6 classes.

I took 2 years of AP Spanish in high school and several Spanish classes in college. A guy in Guatemala told me I speak 80% perfectly and a guy in Colombia told me the same. I have never been paid more for my Spanish skills in 11 years of being a nurse.