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Whats an ASN program all about?

I have a question for anyone that has completed an ASN program. What percentage of the program was learning medical knowledge?

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    Not sure I understand your question. First of all, technically speaking, medical knowledge can be considered different from nursing knowledge. Medical and nursing are 2 different areas of study.

    Do you mean how much of the education is based in the sciences?

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    sounds to me like they are asking specifically how much of it focused on the actual care if the patients?

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    Sorry, I see now that my phrasing was way off. I mean to ask how much time is spent learning about conditions, medications, the body, and proper treatment versus culture, dealing with people, etc.

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    Well when I look at the program that I am personally hoping to attend it seems like the medical stuff is almost 75% of the stuff, so long as I'm counting the clinicals, without the clinical stuff it seems pretty much split down the middle (for the course I want to take) could be different for you.

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    Sorry, I see now that my phrasing was way off. I mean to ask how much time is spent learning about conditions, medications, the body, and proper treatment versus culture, dealing with people, etc.
    I would say that 90 percent of the time in my ASN completion program had been spent learning about pharmacology, pathophysiology, nursing care, hands-on procedural skills, therapeutic communication, cultural competence, and planning the care of the patient.

    As previously mentioned, there's a medical model of care provision and a nursing model of care provision. Nurses learn the nursing model, not the medical model.

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