What Prerequisites Does Your School Have?

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Specializes in Critical Care, Trauma.

I'm curious to see what prerequisite/support courses are required at everyone's schools. I go to Lower Columbia College in Longview, WA and the nursing prerequisites/support classes that can be taken before admission to the nursing program are:

  • English Composition I
  • English Composition II OR Intro to Public Speaking
  • General Psychology
  • Lifespan Psychology
  • General Biology
  • Anatomy and Physiology I
  • Anatomy and Physiology II
  • Microbiology
  • Introduction to Chemistry
  • Statistics
  • Nutrition
  • *Diversity credit (I took Spanish)
  • *Humanities credit (I took Public Speaking)

65 credits total.

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Specializes in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology were the only 3 pre-requisites needed to be completed in order to apply/gain acceptance at my community college in SoCal. Developmental Psychology was needed to be completed before the pysch rotation or you would have to skip a semester. In order to graduate WITH the ADN/ASN, then you needed to complete the general associates degree classes (such as freshmen English composition, college algebra or stats, etc etc etc, list goes on).

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Specializes in Med Surg/Ortho.

My school is an ADN program in northern Colorado. I needed A&P I (they recently took A&P II off the prereq list, but you need to take it by 1st semester if admitted), Micro, Human Growth and Development (and Psych 100 is a prereq for that), Nutrition, and English Comp I. We didn't need to take a med term class, but you got extra points for taking one. Stats, Chemistry and a few other classes are required for transferring to a BSN program, but that varies by school.

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The same as the OP without the nutrition and diversity pre-req. We also have to have Intro to Sociology.

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Specializes in Emergency Room, CEN, TCRN.

I'm going to OHSU, prerequisites for their 3-year OCNE BSN program are 45 quarter credits which must include:

Anatomy and Physiology I-III (Can apply with just the first two quarters complete)

Lifespan Human Development (Psychology course)

Intermediate Algebra

Nutrition

English Composition I & II

6 credits of Social Science electives

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It's a four year degree.

English I & II

Algebra

Statistics

Chemistry I & II

Anatomy and Physiology I & II

Microbiology

Nutrition

US History I & II

US and Texas Government

Psychology

Sociology

Growth and Development

Ethics

A visual and performing arts class (I've chosen Architecture)

At my community college, I only need two more classes for an Associates of Science, so I'm getting that degree, too. For that I need Speech and a core language class (I've chosen World Religions). And to maximize my financial aide, I'm taking Medical Terminology, too.

So I need 60 credits, but when all is said and done I'll have 69.

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AP I and II

Micro

Chemistry

ENG I and II

Public Speaking

Literature

Statistics

Fine arts

General Psych and Dev Psych

Sociology

Humanities

Phys ed

Philosophy

The local CC I originally planned to attend requires

AP I

Micro

Engl I

Pharmacology

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