What do your PreReqs Consist of

[my4helpers]

I know that colleges differ when it comes to what prereqs they require before you can enter into their nursing program. So I was wondering what some of you have to take to get into the program. As I was reading through my college material it states that I will have to take Algebra, Chemistry, Biology and complete all developmental courses that are prescribed by the scores of the placement test that I will be taking in April. I have seen on here that others are taking A&P and Micro as prereqs. When will I take these classes once I get into the nursing program?

[JeanettePNP, MSN, RN, NP]

For my accelerated BSN program:

Chem I

A&P I & II

Micro

Statistics

English (2 courses)

Sociology

Anthropology

Intro to Psych + 1 other Psych course

4 Humanities courses (any)

[guiltysins]

For my BSN:

College Algebra

Statistics or Psychology Statistics

General Bio I & II (2 classes required before taking A&P)

General Chemistry

Organic & Biochemistry (one class)

Intro to Psychology

Developmental Psychology I & II

Human Anatomy

Human Physiology

Microbiology

All these classes are for the nursing program only lol which is why it usually takes people an extra semester or year to graduate. I have other core requirements for the college (ie: English, speech, sociology)

[nondelicacy]

These are the pre-reqs for the BSN program on my campus:

Oral Communication

Sociology

General Psychology

Organic Chemistry (w/lab)

Anatomy (w/lab)

Physiology (w/lab)

Microbiology (w/lab)

Statistics

[afineparadigm]

For the Accelerated BSN program I'm shooting for:

Statistics, Psychology, Anatomy, Physiology, Chem I, Micro. I have all but the later 4.

[CrunchyMama, ASN, RN]

For my school...pre-reqs are basic math class, chemistry and they highly recommend (and pretty much make you) take A&P 1 first before beginning nursing 101. I started 7 years ago, took the math, chemistry, english 1, psychology. I unfortunately dropped out and started again last semester and took A&P 1 and english 2. Now I'm taking A&P 2, life span, sociology and CPR. Then I finally start nursing this fall. :)

[HyperSaurus, RN, BSN]

For our traditional BSN:

English 111 & 211 (4 cr. each)

Intro to Psychology (4 cr.)

Intro to Sociology (4 cr.)

Chemistry 109 (4 cr.) ---or Ch 107/108 or Ch 111/112

Anatomy (3 cr.)

Physiology (5 cr.)

Medical Microbiology (3 cr.)

Human Nutrition 301 A&B (4cr.)

And math if you need it to qualify for the chem class.

[Abby Normal]

I have to take Anatomy, Physiology, Micro, Stats and 2 social sciences.

And I thought that was bad.

Then you have to be careful of the "prerequisites for the prerequisites".

And hope your program doesn't add a requirement while you're working on them.

The thing that kills me is while we're killing ourselves chasing all these ridiculous credits (public speaking? why not drawing? a patient might want us to draw a happy face picture to make them feel better too!), spending years, limiting the number of programs we can apply to, the people applying to medical schools can take all the courses they need at a post-bac program, if they need to, take an established, reasonable set of courses (chemistry, physics, etc.) and they can apply to all the programs they want to.

It's not even consistent among all the campuses of the state university within the state. No wonder people give up.

I wish they'd set a national pre-nursing prerequisite curriculum, of like 5--6 courses that all schools agreed were indispensible. Then everyone would be on the same page.

Nursing schools could then really evaluate how important in thought some of these fuzzy courses are, if they had to make time for them in their own program, instead of us making time in our lives for them, and pay for them. I bet they'd drop them.

I think Yale has a sensible approach. (I'm not planning on going there, but I like it.)

You obviously don't get in without having done a lot of work and taking a lot of courses. The selection process weeds out poorly prepared candidates. But they don't set specific prerequisites. And the program still manages to teach everything it needs to. I wish more programs worked that way. Even if it meant offering conditional acceptances with recommendations to take a course over the summer. It would make my life a lot easier!