College education most likely could be shortened by 1 year if extraneous courses didn’t need to be taken. Back in the ‘70’s we had to take a full year of English, two semesters of phys. ed., inorganic and organic chemistry, a statistics course, none of which I used in nursing. It may be different now, I don’t know. I forget what elective I had to take, but it would have been more worthwhile to require basic sign language devoted to maneuvering in the health care arena; or Spanish, Chinese or French as it relates to health care; at least another semester of pharmaceutical uses and side effects or alternative medicine. I can’t even begin to see how an A.D. degree prepares anyone to be a nurse. I thought 4 years was too short back then. If you don’t know basic English, sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation before entering college, you have zero reason to be admitted. Back then you also had to have two years of a foreign language to be admitted to college. I am not sure why, because it really would not help to converse with foreign speaking patients.

College education most likely could be shortened by 1 year if extraneous courses didn’t need to be taken. Back in the ‘70’s we had to take a full year of English, two semesters of phys. ed., inorganic and organic chemistry, a statistics course, none of which I used in nursing. It may be different now, I don’t know. I forget what elective I had to take, but it would have been more worthwhile to require basic sign language devoted to maneuvering in the health care arena; or Spanish, Chinese or French as it relates to health care; at least another semester of pharmaceutical uses and side effects or alternative medicine. I can’t even begin to see how an A.D. degree prepares anyone to be a nurse. I thought 4 years was too short back then.