Pre-requisties may take 4 semesters, maybe longer?

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So I am starting the fall of 2013 at Tunxis Community College in CT. I'm going to begin taking my Pre-requisite courses for the Naugatuck Valley CC R.N. ADN program. The pre-reqs are:

Now this will be my first year taking any college level courses, but this is what I will be taking this semester.

English Comp 1

Intermediate Algebra

Concepts of Chemistry/Lab

First Year Experience

Spanish 1

To start A&P 1 I have to take the intro Chem, and intro Bio class. How many semesters did it take to finish pre-reqs? Any thoughts on summer and winter intersessions? How many classes should be taken during those sessions?

Specializes in Oncology/hematology.

4 semesters. I took 2 summer semesters, 1 fall, 1 spring. I took all the prereqs and all the coreqs and was taking a ton of credit hours, up to 18 one semester. I also have taken quite a few prereqs for my BSN bridge program that I hope to start in the fall of 2014. I took:

CNA class (5 credit hours)

Chemistry with lab (5 credit hours)

3 algebra classes (didn’t test well)

Running (health credit)

Micro

A &P (5 credit hours)

Comp 1 and 2

Humanities

Social problems

Human development

Psychology

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I feel your pain. I graduated high school and went right into the Air Force. Its like taking pre-reqs to the pre-reqs. I will be taking a year worth of classes just to start the pre-reqs for nursing. Its really discouraging. Good luck, you will do great! I hope we can motivate each toher :)

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I feel your pain. I graduated high school and went right into the Air Force. Its like taking pre-reqs to the pre-reqs. I will be taking a year worth of classes just to start the pre-reqs for nursing. Its really discouraging. Good luck, you will do great! I hope we can motivate each toher :)

That's what I had to do too, being out of school for so long. Math really messed me up. But after three years of pre reqs, and even co reqs for the RN program, I start the nursing program in August. I went some full time, some part time, did some condensed summer sessions. It''s a long road, but worth it.

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Sorta similiar situation. After high school I went into the Navy. I was stoked to go, but had a really bad experience. I was diagnosed with asthma and was sent to a separations division. I was sent home and am now going back to school. All my friends are a year or two ahead of me. And I feel like I lost a lot of my study habits and skills I picked up in High School.

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It takes two years to finish pre-requisites to enter an associates program? Completing an RN-BSN program is going to require another two years? Four years schooling to obtain a two years associates degree, and six years to complete a four year baccalaureate degree.

Am I the only one that thinks this is ridiculous?

This is why the BSN should be the required degree for entry to practice as an RN. Not that an associate degree nurse isn't properly prepared; rather, award the degree that is commensurate with the amount of time invested.

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My pre reqs will have taken me 4 semesters at 5 courses each. I had to also take Basic Bio and a college level math (and for me the developmental math courses!) to take A&P & Micro. So 2 years, I'll be applying for spring 2014 BSN entrance.

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My pre-reqs took me 5 years to finish. One reason is because I didn't go full time, I took 2 classes at a time and took semesters off here and there because I have 5 children. You can't do A&P 2 until you do A&P 1, you can't do A&P 1 until you do an intro to bio class. So that is another reason why it will take longer than you expect. You have pre-reqs to each class. Good luck.

My classes

English 101

English 102

Intro to Bio

A&P 1

A&P 2

psychology 101

sociology 101

Human growth and development (2nd psych class)

Microbiology

Math 095

No chemistry

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It takes two years to finish pre-requisites to enter an associates program? Completing an RN-BSN program is going to require another two years? Four years schooling to obtain a two years associates degree, and six years to complete a four year baccalaureate degree.

Am I the only one that thinks this is ridiculous?

This is why the BSN should be the required degree for entry to practice as an RN. Not that an associate degree nurse isn’t properly prepared; rather, award the degree that is commensurate with the amount of time invested.

It is kinda crazy, but don't entry level BSN require pre reqs as well? I am sure for people out of school for a while it would still take at least some developmental courses.

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The BSN program I am attending has prereqs in the sense that you have to complete the lower level courses before you can do clincals, higher level nursing. By low level courses I mean anatomy,micro, stats etc... There where however no prereqs for the low level classes, the problem was if you were not already a nursing student, getting a spot in Micro, anatomy, random nursing communication course, lifespan was a pain. The spots where held only for nursing students, whatever left over went to aspiring/soon to be nursing students.

Low level stuff took me a year and a semester, clincals come this fall

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took me two years and i took classes every summer. I also did dual enrollemnt in high school. Always stay enrolled all summer.

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