Nursing College In Northeast??

Mwallenmd
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:09:54 +0000

aglagas:

Your totals for UD are about right-more towards the upper end if not even a little higher overall for 4 years. As I noted in my prior post high quality BSN programs should provide 25-30 hours per clinical course credit hour. I obtained this number from a nationally known nurse educator who is a colleague of mine. High quality BSN programs in the Northeast (i.e. Penn, Pitt, Villanova, Rutgers, UConn, Catholic U., Penn State, Drexel, NYU, UD, and a number of others) all meet or exceed this number.

The NLNAC and the CCNE are the two primary accreditation agencies for Nursing Programs. You could probably check their web sites and see if information is available to the public regarding their requirements as they pertain to faculty/student ratios for clinical rotations. I do not personally know the specific requirement. I do know, however, having been a medical educator for over 25 years, that any time a clinical training group exceeds 7-8 students that the level of quality training rapidly diminishes due to the inability to provide sufficient individual attention. Many clinical educators would probably even feel this number is too high. I am not at liberty to specifically name any individual BSN Progams that have less than ideal ratios. I do not wish to offend anyone individuallly, any institution, or any student in a specific training program. What prospective nursing students need to do is to ask any program they are interested in applying to what their ratio is for their respective clinical programs. This, of course, is only one measure you would look at to evaluate the quality of a program.

SingDanceRunLIfe:

Yor program certainly sounds very unique. Are you saying that you are able to obtain a BSN in a total of 3 years, or am I just misreading what you are saying?