Options for Completing Prerequisites

OPTIONS FOR COMPLETING PREREQUISITES for Cal State LB Graduate Nursing

Online Options for all prerequisites:

Cal State Dominguez Hills (www.csudh.edu) Patho course: BSN 345, Comm. Health (if your BS is not in Nursing): BSN 410/411 or Nrsg 420/421; BSN 380/381L for Physical Assessment

Excelsior College (on website, or call 518-464-8500) Patho course - 584

University of Iowa at www.nursing.uiowa.edu also has an approved Pathophysiology course.

Grand Canyon University – Continuing Education at 602-639-8888

University of Massachusetts - online

(These colleges also have statistics and physical assessment classes – please check lists for numbers.)

Additional online Patho courses are at University of Northern Colorado – Nrsg 326 and University of Iowa under Nursing/Pathophysiology course; (CSULB Patho course: Nrsg 305 ).

Patho courses are usually at four year schools but the following community colleges offer approved courses:

El Camino College (Nrsg 210) Santa Barbara City (online) HT 204

Golden West (Bio 160) Moorpark College HS 25

Saddleback (Bio 112)

L.A. Southwest (Nrsg 521)

Santa Ana (Bio 217)

There are many approved statistics courses at community colleges (please call to verify one you plan to take – a CAN STAT 2 course is okay but please send verification that it is such a course), or these at Cal State LB will also qualify: EDP 419, HsC 403/503, Psych 310, Business 310, Math 108.

Choose a physical assessment class at any online or community college or four year school. The one at CSULB is usually closed, however, as it is reserved for our BSN programs. Must be over 30 hours including lecture and assessment. If it is called something other than health or physical assessment, please send description. Golden West, Cerritos, East LA and Saddleback Community Colleges offer physical assessment courses (220, 251 and 102 (with lab), respectively). Santa Monica may also have one.

You may see we also offer physical assessment (312), community health (402) and patho (305) here at CSULB in both semesters and often the summers. However, these are reserved for BSN students and it is advised that you do not take them here. Online courses are the ones most likely to have spaces. In the case of 402, Community Health, you could contact Alison Kliachko-Trafas at at least two months before the start of the semester or summer, as you must contact the teacher and fill out forms as clinical placements will take that long. Our community health is 7 units but other schools often don’t have as many units. It is best to look for classes at other schools as spaces in ours are always last minute. You could try to enter 305 on the first day of class with an Open University form (not recommended for 312 or 402). We request that you do not try to take our 312 classes as those are very full. Thank you.

You may fax any course descriptions of any class you are wondering about (if they are not specifically called physical/health assessment or pathophysiology) to 562-985-2382, attn: Alison. You can also e-mail questions to or to Pam Ford at

Equivalent Prerequisite Courses for Graduate Program

(if a class not mentioned here has a name that is not statistics, physical assessment or pathophysiology, but included the content, please submit course description to Graduate Nursing at fax no. 562-985-2382)

Community Health

Date / Course Name and Number / School
12/2/07 / Nrsg 402 (includes lab) / CSULB
12/2/07 / BSN 410/411 or 420/421 / CSUDH
01/27/12 / NUR 405 (includes lab) / University of Phoenix (1-800-366-9699)
12/13/12 / NRSG 230 (includes lab) / Cerritos College
2/19/13 / NRSG 403/403C / Grand Canyon University
2/19/13 / Nrsg 420 (includes lab) / Vanguard
6/30/15 / Nursing 28 (includes lab) / Santa Monica College

Pathophysiology

Date / Course Name and Number / School
9/23/10 / HS M25 / Moorpark College
3/3/04 / Nrsg 326 / Univ. of Northern Colorado online
3/3/04 / Nrsg 210 / El Camino College
3/3/04 / Bio 112 / Saddleback
3/3/04 / Bio 160 / Golden West
3/3/04 / Nrsg 521 / Los Angeles Southwest
4/27/04 / Nrsg 353 / Cal State Fullerton
4/27/04 / Nrsg 308 / San Diego State
9/28/07 / Nrsg 054/064 / Mount St. Mary’s
9/28/04 / Integrated curriculum / Biola
9/28/07 / Integrated curriculum / Brenau
9/28/04 / Nrsg 250 or 224 / Loma Linda
9/28/04 / Nrsg 326 / University of Northern Colorado
12/22/06 / Bio 217 / Santa Ana Community
12/22/05 / Nrsg 584 or BIOX410 / Excelsior
06/08/07 / 096:118:GW1 Pathophysiology / University of Iowa/Nursing online
06/08/07 / Nrsg 425 or 427 / University of Phoenix
2/14/08 / HIT 204 (online) / Santa Barbara City College
4/28/09 / BIOL 4160 / Cal State East Bay
9/23/10 / Nrsg 210 / University of San Francisco
9/23/10 / Nrsg 119 / Samuel Merritt University
10/28/11 / Nrsg 250 Intro to Patho / CSU Los Angeles
4/2/10 / PHYSCI X459 10 / UCLA Extension
2/19/13 / HS147 / Cypress College
8/5/14 / BSN 346 / CSU Dominguez Hills
2/13/15 / HTHS 2230 / Weber University
8/6/14 / NRS 410V / Grand Canyon Cont. Education
Any 300 or 400 class called Patho (such as 302 through CSUN) / Cal States, UCs, Private Regionally Accredited Universities (Azusa Pacific, Biola, Concordia, Holy Names, UOP, Western, National, etc.)

Physical Assessment

Date / Course Name and Number / School
7/31/09 / BSN-conferred integrated curriculum / Mount St. Mary’s
9/23/10 / Nrsg 277 Health Assessment / East L.A. Community College
5/26/11 / NRS 434V / Grand Canyon Cont. Education
3/3/04 / Any 3 unit class called Physical or / All Cal States/UCs
Health Assessment including a Lab / Any accredited four year or
Within last 5 years / community college
9/9/10 / 436 Health Assessment / Grantham University (non –regionally accredited but can be used for prerequisite)
9/14/07 / Nrsg 251 / Cerritos College
Any class called Physical or Health Assessment (CSUN 307/307L through
Cont. education, for instance) / Cal States, UCs, Private Universities
(Azusa Pacific, Biola, Concordia, Holy Names, etc.)
10/11/10 / Nrsg 155 / El Camino
5/30/12 / Nsg 330, Nsg 420 or NRP 516 (NOT 440) / University of Phoenix 800-366-9699
6/13/13 / NUR 355 / Jacksonville University Online
8/5/15 / Nurs 112 / UC Irvine
8/13/15 / NURS 3020 / Walden University
4/3/16 / NURS 340/340L / Cal State Fullerton

Statistics

Date / Course Name and Number / School
4/27/04 / Math 160 / OCC/Coastline/Golden West
4/27/04 / Math 10 / Irvine Valley
4/27/04 / Math 165 / Sonoma State
4/27/04 / 100A Biostatistics / UCLA
4/27/04 / Math 7 / El Camino College
4/27/04 / Math 150 / El Camino College
9/28/04 / Math 225 / L.A. Valley Colleges
9/28/04 / Psych 230 / Northern Arizona University
9/28/04 / 421 Quat. Methods / CSUDH/online
9/28/04 / Pysch 60 / UCSD
9/28/04 / Math 119 / Mesa/SD Community
9/28/04 / Bio 260 / CSULB
9/28/04 / Math 10 / Foothill College
9/28/04 / Math 10 / Saddleback
9/28/04 / Math 12 / Riverside Comm.
9/28/04 / Math 227 / L.A. Southwest/L.A. Harbor
9/28/04 / Math 160 / Cuyamaca
9/28/04 / Math 210 / Biola
9/28/04 / Psych 011 / UCR
9/28/04 / Math 219 / Santa Ana
9/28/04 / Math 120 / Cypress
9/28/04 / Stat 1 / LBCC
9/28/04 / Soc 3/Stat Methods / College of the Desert
9/28/04 / Stat 2122 / Miami Dade
9/28/04 / Stat 18 / Pasadena City College
9/28/04 / Math 222 / Pacific Union
9/28/04 / Math 52 / Santa Monica College
6/30/05 / Math 160 / Grossmont College
6/30/05 / Math 206 / Walla Walla
6/30/05 / Stat 114 / SCC
6/30/05 / Math 203 / Chapman
6/30/05 / Math 40049 / UCSD
6/30/05 / Math 112 / Cerritos
6/30/05 / Math 010 / Mission College
6/30/05 / Math 136 / Glendale
6/30/05 / Stat 1 / L.A. Valley
6/30/05 / CAN STAT 2 Course / Community Colleges
5/21/07 / Stat 095 / San Jose State
8/10/06 / Psych 230 / Arizona State University
3/31/07 / Math 205 / St. Joseph’s College/Maine
4/5/07 / Psych 60 / UC San Diego
1/2/07 / Math 120 / Fullerton College
4/18/07 / Math 152 / Ocean County College/New Jersey
1/26/09 / Math 105 / CSULB
6/04/07 / Math 108 / CSULB
6/04/07 / Psych 310 / CSULB
6/04/07 / EDP 419 / CSULB
7/27/07 / IS 310 / CSULB
6/04/07 / HsC 403 / CSULB
6/04/07 / HsC 503 / CSULB
4/1/10 / SOC 250 / CSULB
10/9/07 / Math 7 / UC Irvine
2/24/08 / Math 117 / Santa Barbara City College
1/23/09 / CLEP Exam – College Mathematics / College Board
4/7/10 / AP Statistics Exam / High School Exam for GE credit