Prereqs way in advance?

[YeahMan]

TLDR: I'm thinking of starting nursing school in about 6-7 years, should I take prereqs now?

Currently, I have a human services bachelor's degree, and want to get my RN part time. We're planning to start a family soon, so I'd likely go back to school (part time, planning to be a SAHM) once our kids start school.

Would it be worth it for me to take microbiology, A&P i/ii now or is that too far in advance?

[203bravo, MSN, APRN]

I wouldn't... many schools require that your sciences be taken within the past 4-5 years or you will need to repeat them.... I would suggest that you talk to the nursing program that you are interested in attending to see if they have such requirements.. but honestly anything can happen in 7 years and you could even find yourself living somewhere else and the other program may have such time limits.

[elkpark]

Welcome to allnurses!

I would not take any science courses well in advance. If you want to knock out some general education/liberal arts courses, those will not "age out" the way science courses do.

Do you know for a fact that there is a part-time RN program near you? They aren't that common; you can't just assume you'll be able to go to nursing school part-time.

Best wishes for your journey --

[idkmybffjill]

I agree with the other two posters. There are too many programs that require you to have taken the prereqs within a certain number of years that it probably wouldn't be worth it.

[YeahMan]

There is, it's an AAS through my local community college (or there's a part-time BSN through another private college in the area).

[allisonmcx]

Prereqs like a&p are hugely important to nursing school. I wouldn't recommend taking them 6-7 years in advanced because you likely won't remember it enough for it to be useful in your nursing classes. I saw a posting about someone who was in a med-surge class and hadn't really thoroughly learned a&p. he ended up having to drop med-surge because he didn't have the basic foundation

[BICU_RN2016]

I agree with the previous posters as far as not taking science classes to far in advance. A solid understanding of A&P is really an essential building block for nursing school, especially if you are going to be going to nursing school part time! That being said, I took many pre-reps ahead of time (English, math classes, chemistry, etc) so it is a good idea to start getting some of those out of the way :) Best of luck to you!

[Tprofitt, BSN]

Not sure how the nursing programs in your area work, but over here and everywhere else that I know of, you have to apply and be accepted. To have everything planned out so far in advance is just asking for upset in my opinion. If it takes 2 years just to be accepted then you'll be regretting not starting sooner.