A BSN is a prerequisite to most advanced practice nursing programs. A BSN degree takes a minimum of four years. However, many students take longer than 1 year to complete the OHSU prerequisites for a variety of reasons see below. However, this prerequisite requirement does not account for courses that must be completed before taking some of those nursing prerequisites.
Additionally, OCNE schools require students to complete at least 30 college credits of prerequisite courses by the end of Fall Term during the year they apply. Therefore, unless first-year college students have at least 15 college credits earned in high school that fulfill OCNE prerequisites, they must wait to apply to OCNE programs until their second year in college.
Because of the nursing shortage, many people have decided to try to enter the nursing field. While there is a shortage of nurses in the workforce, there is also a shortage of nursing faculty to teach in nursing schools and of clinical placements for nursing students to develop their skills.
These factors have combined to create an understaffed career field that is challenging and competitive to enter. In , OHSU and its partner universities received approximately applications and accepted students; the average prerequisite GPA of these students was 3. Many private nursing schools, such as Linfield College and the University of Portland, receive similar numbers of applications.
The importance of exceptional grades and well-rounded work, volunteer, or extracurricular experiences cannot be overemphasized. Having medical experience, volunteer or paid, will strengthen your application. Nursing schools value applicants who have a clear idea of what it means to be a nurse and why the career is a good fit for them. However, very few BSN programs nationwide require any direct patient care experience.
This type of requirement is much more common among ADN programs. Many of these programs require students to be a Certified Nursing Assistant CNA or give preference in the application process to students who are. CNA classes are weeks long and teach basic skills in patient care. CNAs can always obtain work available, and some pre-nursing students work part-time while completing prerequisite courses.
For more information about CNA classes in Oregon, click here. Be sure to plan ahead since most CNA courses fill months in advance!. The scholarships are funded through contributions from private donors, alumni, faculty, staff, parents, campus organizations, and corporations. Skip to main content Back. About the Program Pre-Nursing The pre-nursing program provides the first two years of liberal arts and sciences, prerequisites, and supporting courses needed for the Traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing BSN program option.
These two years serve to establish a solid foundation for Nursing courses leading to a BSN. Freshmen If a first-year student who wish to apply to the Traditional BSN option, will have to complete all prerequisite and distribution courses through the pre-nursing program prior to applying for admission to the upper division BSN program.
Transfers Students transferring from another institution for the Traditional BSN option, and do not meet admissions requirements, can enroll in the pre-nursing program in order to complete any outside pre-requisites. Outcomes Becoming a BarryNurse When you graduate, you will have the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to engage as a beginning practitioner. You will graduate with the ability to: Assimilate knowledge, skills, and values from the arts and sciences to provide humanistic, safe, quality care as a nurse generalist.
Utilize clinical reasoning to formulate decisions regarding safe, quality healthcare outcomes. Communicate effectively with all members of the health care team, including patients and their support system s to improve patient care outcomes. Integrate health promotion, disease and injury prevention strategies in the care of individuals, families and communities. Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high quality nursing care. Demonstrate proficiency in using patient care technologies, information systems, and communication devices to support safe nursing practice.
Evaluate the impact of political, legal, and ethical factors on the health of individuals, families and communities from a global perspective Integrate professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct into nursing practice. Integrate professional standards of moral, ethical and legal conduct into nursing practice.
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My d has had a great experience but you have to maintain a very high GPA to stay competitive in most pre nursing situations. You need to read each colleges description of pre nursing and whether there is guaranteed admission to nursing later or not, often it is not guaranteed. Yes, as noted above, it is preferable to apply to programs where you can accepted as a nursing major straight from high school.
However, those programs are not common in some parts of the US, and instead it is competitive to be accepted as a nursing major. Those are often called 2 plus 2 programs - 2 years of taking standard requirements for a bachelors degree plus prereqs for nursing, and then 2 years of nursing and clinicals if you are accepted.
You would need to check each college for their policies on majors. Many majors require that you take classes in a certain order in order to graduate in 4 years. Wherever you are allowed flexibility, you could be taking classes that would also meet the requirements for that back-up major.
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