Hey there
Ok a few things
First I am a senior(yay) in my BSN program at SUNY Buffalo...I was alo pre-med from day one. I was pre-med before I even knew I would pick nursing as my UG major.....
What makes bio, psych, or anything else more or less important to apply to med school???? They are ALL UG majors..
I am friends with PT, OT and pharm people(as well as nursing) In my opinion any health science major is a lot more difficult and demanding than a BS in Bio or psych. Did I also tell you I am earning a second degree in Bio??
Let me put it like this, first I think people who have no idea about nursing get really confused and think there are some separate pre-reqs that nurses take to get into their program...Well not at my school. EVERYONE takes the same physiology 300, the same microbio 300, the same Anatomy...Now I am not talking once you are IN the program we are talking just pre-reqs here. I can assure you that these courses are FAR more difficult than the ore med courses I had to take(ie Physics and Chem, evolution, cell bio, etc) And the reqs to health science programs far exceed the classes required to enter medical school...Let alone the other classes such as the many psychs, sociology and statistics the health science majors have to take before they can even begin the program.
For people who don't know, nursing(as well as such things as PT, OT, Exercise science, Pharm, etc) after you finish your two or more years of pre-reqs(I think PT and pharm are even more now bc they get their PharmD and Dr of PT...so we are talking even more work for them!) You start your program in which for Nursing I have had 6 hour classes everyday, and when you are not in class you are in clinicals all day. You have rotations. I have been in family practice, ICU, med surg and now Peds. Not only do you go to clinical but before each week you have to go into the hospital and get your patients information. Go home and do research on your patients conditions, make care plans, look up all their meds(and some are on like 50 I swear!) and write up pages upon pages before you even see the patient. This of course is before you have 15 chapters to read for class that night or the next morning.
What I am trying to say here is that I cannot understand at all how anyone could say that any health science major would not be well prepared for medical school or does not deserve to go...Are you kidding me. I think any have such a better idea at the work ethic involved and will be well used to the type of constant performance and pressure involved.
Good luck to everyone I have to go to a meeting now🙁
Oh and I agree with NJ, some nurses get angry when you tell them you want to go to medical school so be careful. I do feel bad for Doctors a lot of the times because I do think some nurses(more the older ones or Associate level) get very nasty towards doctors even when they are nice. I don't know why that is🙁