<p>pre-med nursing is an interesting idea. If you end up not getting into med school, you can work as an RN, making money, while doing an SMP or post-bacc to better your application. You also get some clinical experience to be sure you want to be in the field. On the other hand, it may be better to take other routes to getting clinical experience, such as being an EMT (GERMS-Georgetown EMS) or a clinical technician (I’m one and we do many basic nursing functions, such as IVs, drawing blood, EKGs, vitals, oxygen, begin triage, foleys (…), splinting, supervised NG tubes, etc.), and save your sanity since you won’t be doing early clinicals and trying to get good grades in orgo, haha. NHS seems to support the idea that you can be pre-med and nursing, and if I had to do it again, I might have done that (and probably work per-diem during med school). </p>
<p>But yeah, the experiences you’d get at Gtown Nursing and other great BSN programs far outweigh the cons.</p>
<p>On a side note, the average salary of an NHS grad is the highest out of all the schools. I’m sure it’s all the nursing majors that pull it up. Some of my friends are working at places like Georgetown Hospital ED, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (PICU), Johns Hopkins Hospital, New York Presbyterian ED, Hospital of UPenn, etc. All great, top hospitals. Some also go directly into nurse practitioner programs, right at NHS. There are many doors that open with a georgetown degree and a BSN.</p>