Nursing School Education Path

BeccaBSN · Apr 12, 2012

Hello Everyone,
I have been very confused on how to start my nursing career and get so many different answers. I have 70 credits completed with a major in Psychology. I now realized I want to become a nurse. Should I finish my BA degree and apply to a 2nd Degree Accelerated Program and in the meantime of finishing my psychology degree take my prerequisites for nursing school (Anatomy, Micro, ETC) ? OR should I try to get into a generic RN program now and then do an RN-BSN program? Or are both these ideas not the way? I am very confused. Please Help!
Thanks everyone!
-Lisa

How many semesters will it take for you to finish out your psych BA? Will you realistically be able to handle AP I&II, Stats, Micro, and Chemistry while getting your BA in psych? Then I would go that route.

If you drop out of your four year program now and enroll in community college, you will still have to spend at least a year or two taking pre-reqs (AP, micro, etc) before being able to apply for the 2-year community college ASN program. Then it will take you another year or two to get your RN-BSN after that.

So you're looking at spending 4 years getting a BA and a BSN, or spending 4 years getting one ASN, followed by another year+ getting your BSN. I would rather have the two bachelors degrees and skip the community college altogether (I just spent 2 years filling my prereqs at PCCC and with a couple exceptions, it was a pretty underwhelming educational experience).

Good luck!