"hard science" requirements for RN's

[brownbook]

Did getting into nursing school, ADN, or BSN, require you to have taken college level "hard" sciences? Which ones?

Microbiology, anatomy, physiology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, etc.,?

[caliotter3]

I'm glad to hear most of you did have to take something along those lines. Not sure what the "health science career" version includes? On another thread I mentioned in passing that all nurses had to have taken hard sciences and several said they did not!

I had to take all these just for my ADN, (except organic chemistry, that came with my BSN).

When you look on the schedule of classes or the catalog of several different colleges, you will often find where schools will have a course designated for allied health and prenursing majors versus a course listed for (for example) chemistry or preengineering majors. The allied health course is normally one semester (in the case of chemistry). The chemistry major will take two semesters of inorganic chem, two semesters of organic chem, etc., where the prenursing major may only have to take one semester of "Foundations of Chemistry" for prenursing, etc. majors. The differences in the course content are detailed in the course descriptions. Having taken both types of courses, I can assure you, there is a vast difference.

[amandacam]

For my program, I had to take 1 semester of microbiology, 2 semesters of A&P, 1 semester of chemistry (general or health sciences version were acceptable), developmental psych, nutrition, and statistics. After entering my program, they dropped the chemistry requirement.

[OrganizedChaos, LVN]

For the bridge program I'm going to apply to I need to re-take bio, microbio, chem & A&P 1 & 2.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I see many respondents mentioning coursework like nutrition, developmental psychology, etc. Although I also had to take those courses, they are definitely not considered the hard empirical sciences that the OP is referring to.

[happyinmyheart]

Did getting into nursing school, ADN, or BSN, require you to have taken college level "hard" sciences? Which ones?

Microbiology, anatomy, physiology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, etc.,?

For sciences classes: I had to take biology, organic chemistry, microbiology, and anatomy & Physiology.

Other prerequisites: Human nutrition, intro to psychology, statistics, developmental psychology, rhetoric and composition 1 & 2, communications.

Other classes to take before starting the program: 9 humanities credits, 6 social science, and 3 interdisciplinary classes.

:)

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Did getting into nursing school, ADN, or BSN, require you to have taken college level "hard" sciences? Which ones?

Microbiology, anatomy, physiology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, etc.,?

We took all of the above in my undergraduate program, as separate full semester courses.

[caliotter3]

For those who have a phobia to math, recently the community college nursing programs in CA added intermediate algebra to introductory algebra, as prenursing prerequisites, much to the discomfort of those who consider themselves to be math challenged.

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

Yes, pre-reqs before getting into an ADN program.

Chemistry (I got credit for high school chemistry). Anatomy (two semesters). Microbiology (two semesters). Physiology (two semesters).

There was a medical math class as well.

Before my BSN I had to take a statistics class.

[elkpark]

My hospital-based diploma program had no prerequisites at all -- all the courses were built into the program. The first year of the 3-year (three full calendar years, 33 months of full-time study; we got two weeks off at Xmas and 2 weeks off in the summer, and, otherwise, we were in school) program, the school bused us to a local college three days a week, and we took a full year (two semesters) of A&P and organic chemistry and a semester of microbiology with labs (the same courses the school's pre-med, chemistry and bio majors took -- we were in class with them). All the math we needed for nursing was built into the chemistry course; we didn't have a separate math course. We also took a semester each of intro to psych, intro to sociology, and nutrition. We had a year (three quarters) of freshman English taught through the local community college (they sent an instructor to the nursing school). All our nursing courses were taught at the nursing school. I got an excellent education that prepared me v. well for practice.

[sjalv]

The only science courses required for entry into my ASN program were Anatomy & Physiology 1 & 2, and Microbiology. I took General Chemistry as well which is convenient because it is required for my intended bachelor's program.

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

We took all of the above in my undergraduate program, as separate full semester courses.

THIS.

In my area Anatomy and Physiology is a two part course; I also took Microbiology and two Chemistry courses; all with labs.

For some of the nursing programs I was interested in, Biochemistry with lab as a requirement, so I took that class as well.

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

For those who have a phobia to math, recently the community college nursing programs in CA added intermediate algebra to introductory algebra, as prenursing prerequisites, much to the discomfort of those who consider themselves to be math challenged.

That's great news, especially for people who are interested in critical care and Peds; I do math every say for safe dosing; we are the last line of defense, the MOST we can do, besides provide competent nursing care, is to be able to do basic math and understand formulas such as dimensional analysis to check dosing.