Ohio State or Case Western for Nursing

aglages
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:34:36 +0000

…Penn (University of Pennsylvania)…

Yes, the University of Pennsylvania is a different college than Pennsylvania State University. Thank you cecilturtle!

We’ll have to agree to disagree on whether 1600 clinical hours instead 0f 1000 is a huge difference or whether those hours spread out over four years provide “quality” experience. In my evaluation/opinion…they represent a HUGE amount of hands on experience that will be helpful to a future nurse. The fact that those hours start during the freshman year also (IMHO) helps the nursing students become involved in the nursing program and allows them to feel as though they are doing some “real” nursing (as opposed to only academic classes). JMPO…which BTW is what the OP (different User ID) asked for.

Interpret the NCLEX first time pass rates however you choose. My point was simply to point out that the pass rates don’t reflect purely on how well a program prepares it’s future nurses for the test but also by other factors as charliesschm pointed out in his post.

Best of luck to you and your daughter with her decision!