Why aren't nursing prerequisites standardized?

[thinkingcap]

I have been considering a few different programs and there seems to be a fair amount of discrepancy. I understand schools having different GE requirments, but I don't see why the math and science should be different. I mean, you either need biochem or you don't, right? Either college algebra is the best math foundation, or stats is. So why the different requirments? Are other medical fields like this?

[RunBabyRN]

My thinking is that part of it has to do with the fact that different schools have different admission standards in general. If it wasn't that way, the same small group of people would get into every school, and the rest would be out of luck.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Considering that different accreditation agencies also have differing standards, and different criteria for descriptions of courses, it's no surprise that there is no standardization across the board.

Consider, too, that we have three different entries into professional nursing (diploma (no degree), Associates degree, and Bachelor's degree) and there is pretty much your answer.

[NurseGirl525, ASN, RN]

For math I could have done either stats or algebra. For me, it was a matter of what is needed at a 4 year program and what transfers. I had several choices on science and I looked at what would transfer and what is needed. I may add a couple if sciences along the way to get them knocked out now.