What is your program's curriculum?

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I'm curious to see what other schools' curriculums are for freshman Nursing majors. I know that my friend who is currently a student at West Virginia University didn't really focus on as many of the classes I'm having now in my first semester until she was a sophomore. I am a freshman right now...brand new to college :lol2:

Here's what a typical nursing major's first semester freshman year schedule looks like at my school:

Biochemistry

Anatomy & Physiology 1

Nursing 110: Unitary Man & the Environment

First year seminar (required of all freshmen...has nothing to do with your major)

2nd semester:

Microbiology

Anatomy & Physiology 2

"Literary, Visual, and Performing arts" liberal learning requirement

"Ways of Knowing" liberal learning requirement

(We need a certain number of liberal learning requirements to graduate. They're all different topics so you can become more "well-rounded" outside your major.)

A couple of Nursing majors that I know at other schools have classes that don't directly relate to Nursing so I was curious.

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Specializes in PCA.

Freshman Year Credits

Analytical Reading and Writing

Critical Thinking/Problem Solving in Math

General Psychology

Introduction to Sociology

Beg.Prin.Gen./Org.Chemistry

Biology I

Area I Distribution Requirement

Human Communication

Information Literacy

Physical Education

Free Elective

We dont start real nursing classes untill our sophmore year.

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It's interesting to see how different some schools are. I don't start clinicals until my second semester of sophomore year.

Thanks for responding!

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The BSN program I taught in (and this is a fairly common model, not just this particular university) didn't accept students into the nursing program until their Jr. year, and all the nursing classes were Jr. and Sr. year. You were admitted to the university as a "pre-nursing" major, and spent the first couple years (or however long it took you; longer, esp., if you were going part-time) taking pre-reqs and general ed courses. The university admits many times more "pre-nursing" majors as freshman than it has seats in the actual nursing program, so competition is v. fierce among the students for those comparatively few seats in the nursing program, and the simple fact is that most of the "pre-nursing" majors will not make it in, and will have to either change their majors or transfer to another school after they don't make it into the nursing program.

(My dissatisfaction with this model is one of several reasons that I resigned my faculty position.)

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

I'm in an ADN program so we had 4 pre-req's that had to be done prior to admission - Math for Health, A&P 1, Psychology & English 1, the rest of our semesters are as follows, courses marked with an * i managed to complete prior to starting the program, ** are classes I tossed in on my own towards future gen ed pre-reqs for the master's program I"m looking at.

Semester 1 -

A&P 2*

Fundamentals w/clinicals

Parmacology

Semester 2

Intro to Chem **

Med/Surg 1 w/clinicals

Humanities

SummerA I took Sociology** & statistics** and had a 1 week IV certification course

Summer B was OB 1 and Microbiology*(4 days a week would have driven me bonkers so made sure I knocked this one out during a full semester lol)

This semester-

Assessment

Med/Surg 2 w/clinicals

Next semester & last

OB 2

Psychiatric/Mental Health

ALOT of clinicals lol

Graduate with degree May 5th but our pinning isn't until after practicum, required Kaplan review and a 3 days ethics and leadership class taught by the director, which puts us testing around mid July for NCLEX

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