Slow paced Nursing Program

Extra Pickles · Mar 15, 2017

I am looking for a slow paced nursing program. I have a daughter with a slow motor processing speed that feels her true calling is nursing. If the class is long and drawn out and real hands on she will learn it. Does anyone know of such a program? I do not care where in the world this program is located.

Probably the only way you are going to accomplish "long and drawn out" is by choosing a program where she can take a minimal number of courses each semester. The classes themselves are not going to be long and drawn out; they are what they are to meet the accreditation standards for the program. They will be a specific number of credit hours each. And a common theme of nursing programs in general is that they must be accomplished within a certain span of years, before courses expire.

She will need to take pre-requisite courses for a year, two years or longer depending on what program she wants to apply to. Each school has its own requirements for admission and won't admit her until those pre-requisites are done. Sometimes schools will have co-requisite courses so that she can complete one or two while enrolled in the core nursing program. Generally speaking, the courses are expected to be completed just prior to applying to the nursing program itself.

Again, generally speaking, the science courses that must be completed prior to acceptance into nursing schools are good for up to five years.

If you're looking for an LPN program, there are different standards there too, but similar rules will apply, it just won't be a college degree program she's enrolled in.

A bigger consideration, a MUCH bigger consideration than the school is just how impaired your daughter is. Nurses, whether LPN or RN, are expected to react quickly to situations all throughout their shifts, and there is no allowance for a nurse who is so slow-processing that she cannot safely care for patients assigned to her. Orders can be rapid-fire, patients can decompensate quickly, and she must be able to handle that. She cannot pass off the more complicated patients to other nurses, she will need to function the same as any of the others when it comes right down to it.

RNNPICU, BSN, RN · Mar 22, 2017

AS the above poster said, it may be possible to take the science courses first, but some nursing courses have to be taken together. also, some courses are only offered once a year, for example only in the fall semester or only in the spring semester. Typically nursing courses are offered only once a year. Science courses can be offered more than once a year as well as some other prerequisite courses.

The best way to find out is have HER call the nursing schools she is interested in and find out the options. Have HER contact the Disabilities centers at the schools she is interested in and see how they can support accommodations, or if they are even able to.

Help her write down how she wants to approach each school, even developing a script with space between each question or statement so she can write down replies.

The only way she will know if she can take the course work at a slower speed is to contact the schools directly.

Hope this is helpful