Detailed interpretation of Caltech’s nursing major

What majors are there at Caltech? What is Caltech's nursing program like? Caltech's colleges are divided into the School of Biological Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the School of Geology and Planetary Sciences, the School of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomical Sciences, and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Follow me below for a detailed introduction! Detailed interpretation of the nursing major at Caltech

Introduction to the nursing major

First of all, the nursing major in the United States is open to students from all backgrounds. So if you meet in class a “senior” who has worked as a doctor in a tertiary hospital in a certain first-tier city in eastern China for seven years and already has a doctorate or master’s degree in biology, or an elder sister who has more than ten years of work experience in the business field, that is not the case. What's new?

The nursing major in the United States welcomes applicants from various backgrounds. The school looks at applicants’ humanistic care background. I myself graduated from a domestic 985, 211 finance and economics college, worked in an American company, and later came to the United States to resume my undergraduate nursing studies.

Second, age is not a problem when working as a nurse in the United States. The oldest nurse in the United States is Florence “SeeSee” Rigney, 95, who works in the operating room of Tacoma Hospital in Washington. There is a legend circulating in the industry: In the United States, there is a legend about a 70-year-old nurse using a cane to give you an injection. It seems that it is not groundless.

Third, American nursing has associate degree (ADN), bachelor’s degree (BSN), accelerated bachelor’s degree (ABSN), master’s degree (MSN), professional nurse practitioner (NP), research-based doctor of nursing (PhD), and Doctor of Clinical Nursing (DNP) degrees. In addition to ADN, BSN, and MSN, the other degrees mentioned above have independent prescribing rights in many states in the United States. In other states, the prescribing rights are slightly restricted and require a doctor's signature. Therefore, being a nurse in the United States comes with a lot of independence and leadership.

For example, after working as a nurse in the United States for a period of time, you can choose to continue your education to become a specialist nurse and have the right to prescribe! Depending on your interests and hobbies, you can be a nurse like a family doctor, a psychiatric nurse, an obstetrics and gynecology nurse, or an anesthesiology nurse. Doctors' labor in the United States is too expensive, so some basic diagnoses in these fields are left to nurses. Although the salary is not as good as that of doctors, the median salary is still US$90,000 per year.

Detailed explanation of the courses taken by the nursing major

To apply for the nursing department, you need to meet some prerequisite course requirements, mainly psychology, sociology, chemistry, and biology. Each school's nursing department requires slightly different prerequisite courses, so you need to find out in advance.

Basically, once you enter the nursing department, you don’t have to worry about choosing courses, because all the courses you take each semester are arranged, and you can’t drop them or choose others. As for the classroom atmosphere, the teachers in the nursing department are all senior nurses, and they are all very caring and very nice, so my feeling all the time is that they respect the students very much and give us a lot of love.

The future development of the nursing profession

Haha! This is my second favorite topic (where is the first?)! The future development of Nursing in the United States is very good. The career development path of American nurses is very impressive in three dimensions: it can be very long, it can be very broad, it can also be very deep. There are also many internship opportunities.

The hospital has long needed nursing students to work as nursing assistants. There are many internships during the summer, so you can go to your favorite department in advance to familiarize yourself with the environment. Employment is also very good. Most nurses in the United States are over 50 years old. These nurses will retire soon, so the demand for nurses is very high. Every year, the United States recruits foreign nurses from other countries, such as the Philippines, because the number of new nurses trained in the country is not enough to make up for the demand.

Opportunities to study in the United States. Nurses are not a specialty. Therefore, it is difficult for nurses who have graduated with a bachelor's degree to study in the United States.

Most hospitals do not sponsor H1B. You can work on OPT for one year after graduation. After this, you can choose to continue studying and become a nurse practitioner (NP) or apply for a nursing PhD.

Nursing schools in the United States are in urgent need of teachers, so for students who want to teach in the future, nursing is relatively easy to find faculty compared to other majors.