How many years of college does it take to become a diagnostic medical sonographer?

I would like to become an RN in the emergency room. How many years of college does this take?

• I was planning on taking 4 years of college at a community college, but what all will I have to go though to get to this job. I'm only 15, I have to do a power point on where ...show more

• Answer:

  First of all, you can't do a 4 year degree at a community college--an associates is a 2 year degree. For the ER in the US you need to be an RN-that's about it. You get on the job training. While they do require ACLS (CPR) that is a 2 day class often incorporated into the ER orientation. All the hospitals I have worked in do not require any further formal courses or classes to be in the ER. They do an orientation (which maybe a few months) and some do a new grad orientation that is 6 months. It is up to the individual ER whether they want associates degree RN or bachelors degree RNs (4 years at a university). The classes you would take in high school would be your gen ed & science ones. I would look at the web page of a nursing school by you to see a sample of the type of pre-reqs & curricula you would be doing in nursing school.