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Educational and Licensure Requirements
Diploma in
Nursing
The oldest method of
nursing education is the hospital-based diploma program, which
lasts approximately three years. Students take between 30 and 60
credit hours in anatomy, physiology, microbiology, nutition,
chemistry and other subjects at a college or university, then
move on to intensive nursing classes. Until 1996, most RNs in
the US were initially educated in nursing by diploma programs.According to the Health Services Resources
Administration's 2000 Survey of Nurses only six percent of
nurses who graduated from nursing programs in the United States
received their education at a Diploma School of Nursing.
Associate Degree in Nursing
The most common
initial nursing education is a two-year Associate Degree in
Nursing Associate of Applied Science in Nursing, Associate of
Science in Nursing, Associate Degree in Nursing), a two year
college degree degree referred to as an ADN. Some four-year
colleges and universities also offer the ADN. Associate degree
nursing programs have many prerequisite and co-requisite courses
which ultimately stretch out the degree-acquiring process to
about 3 years or greater.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
The third method is
to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), a four-year
degree that also prepares nurses for graduate-level education.
For the first two years in a BSN program, students usually
obtain general education requirements and spend the remaining
time in nursing courses. The Bachelor of Science in Nursing
degrees have many courses which stretches out the
degree-acquiring process to over 4 years. Advocates for the ADN
and diploma programs state that such programs have a on the job
training approach to educating students, while the BSN is an
academic degree that emphasizes research and nursing theory.
However the BSN graduate has both more classroom and clinical
hours of study in nursing than the ADN graduate. The BSN
graduate is professionally degreed; and as such is called a
professional nurse. However, some states require a specific
amount of clinical experience that is the same for both BSN and
ADN students. Nursing schools may or may not be accredited by
either the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC)
or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
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