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stressednurse · Nov 9, 2003

ADN is an RN. I had to take english composition I & II, algebra, Microbiology, Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology I and II, 2 courses of Psychology, an elective and hope I got accepted. I clep tested out of 3 courses at 34 cuz most of my high school classes no longer counted.

luvbbs · Nov 9, 2003

Thankyou for your reply I do realize that an ADR is basically the same as RN except for RN two extra yrs of school..I wasnt sure since RN is 4 yrs schooling and ADN is only 2 yrs so you still have to add for schooling for prereqs correct??

memphispanda, RN · Nov 9, 2003

ADN, BSN, and diploma programs are all education for people desiring to be an RN. None of them make you an RN. Taking the NCLEX-RN and passing it makes you an RN.

For my program, we had to have 1 semester of Chemistry, English, Psychology, Human Growth and Development, A&P 1&2, and Microbiology. All of the non-BSN programs I looked into required about the same...some required 2 semesters of Chemistry instead of 1, some required a math class...but basically they were all the same.

The BSN programs have additional schooling, but the majority of it is in non-nursing courses. Things like additional english classes, history classes, etc. The ones I looked into had one or two additional Nursing classes, and they were usually Nursing Research and Trends in Modern Nursing (or something similar).

Jen2 · Nov 9, 2003

For My ADN program I had to take Englich, Chemistry, Psychology, Human Deveopement and Family Studies, Anatomy, Physiology, 2 electives (I took Art History and Spanish), College Algebra, and Microbiology.

My ADN nursing classes consist of Nursing 101, 102, 201, and 202. Then in order to get my BSN, I will need to take Nutrition, Statistics, another chemistry class, a second english, another elective, a hisotory class, A Nursing research class, and a nursing History class,

Neon8 · Nov 9, 2003

I origionally planned to take the ADN program and took Beginning Algebra, English I, Psychology, Anthropology, Communications, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology. When I couldn't get into the ADN program due to the long waiting list, I decided to transfer over to the State University for their three-year nursing program. In order to do that, I had to take more General Education classes: College Algebra, Another science course - I took Physics, Political Science, English II, History, SpanishI, plus Organic Chemistry, and Developmental Psychology Once in the nursing program, I had to take BioChemistry, Upper Division English, Statistics, Spanish II, Spanish III, more History, A Humanities Class, an Energy class, and a class on Race and Racism. There may be a few more miscellaneous classes that I don't recall right now. The nursing program consisted of Long-Term Care, MedSurg, Peds, OB/GYN, Mental Health Nursing during the first two years. The third year consisted of Nursing Research, Nursing Theories and Theorists, Public Health Nursing. I might add that the the difference between the Community College and the University is like night and day. For instance, the program at the University was reasearch-based: you had to find references from existing research to back up each intervention on your careplans, so a lot of time was spent on the Internet and Library. We had many, many papers to write, too.

sjoe · Nov 9, 2003

"ADN, BSN, and diploma programs are all education for people desiring to be an RN. None of them make you an RN. Taking the NCLEX-RN and passing it makes you an RN."

Exactly.

"The BSN programs have additional schooling, but the majority of it is in non-nursing courses."

Whether this is true or not depends entirely on what courses one has already taken and passed. A BSN requires a nursing managment course and clinical, as well as a public health nursing course and clinical (and lifetime certification, if one wishes, for a small extra fee). At least mine did.