subject: One More Year and You Will Be a Registered Nurse [print this page] One More Year and You Will Be a Registered Nurse
There comes a time when there was a tremendous shortage of nursing both in local and national levels that prompted the school administrations to come up with an alternative program to fill in the deficiency. Most of the colleges and universities are now designing an Accelerated Nursing Programs to provide the students who are a graduate of different course to shift into BS in nursing which is now in demand in the market. If you are a graduate of other Bachelors degree in non-nursing majors, your general courses enrolled and attended are automatically credited in the program and only the major subjects will be enrolled. Thus, this means you can obtain your BS in Nursing sixteen months after you enroll. After the Pursuing program, qualifying exams like NCLEX-RN are given to the students to be an eligible to practice in any health care settings they wish to venture into. Armed with these, they are now ready to be included in the employment eligible list and start job hunting. Absorption criteria on the other hand of the applicant vary from one nursing school or universities to another. Some would only accept if you are holding credits from medicine-related course like Biology, Chemistry, Psychology, Nutrition, and Ethics among other science related courses. Others would not require such as long as you can pass the accelerated program they are offering. There are schools who offer both Bachelors and Master's Degree simultaneously. You need to bring your transcript of records for them to assess your subjects to be enrolled and to determine to what level you are in. It is expected though that the requisites of these Accelerated Nursing Programs is three times harder and more rigorous compared to the normal 3 year nursing program. One should be mentally ready to tackle all the workload accompanying this within 11-13 months, quicker than the routine time frame of the usual. This is a full time class and a limited number of eligible students are absorbed. Don't expect also that all the online nursing programs are accelerated; therefore you need to verify the program of the school before enrolling. The positive result of this Accelerated Nursing Programs is that graduates who undergone exceed the passing rate on the Registered Nurse (RN) licensure examination than those who did it in the normal three year-curriculum. If you are a graduate also of another non-nursing course before entering the acceleration program, you have an option still to go back if you fail to pursue the nursing career.
