Has anyone went to the washington (pa) school of nursing? Is the program difficult? Did you do any preqs online, and accepted? I am planning to attend in the fall but would like to do A&p online...

I answered ya in your other post on the same topic. See that thread. :-)

The other thread is https://allnurses.com/distance-learning-nursing/washington-hospital-school-544949.html

Updated 11/22/11. https://allnurses.com/distance-learning-nursing/washington-hospital-school-544949-page2.html#post5915299

I have copies of schedules for nursing I through nursing 4. I'm no longer attending there. I don't recommend it, due to any number of factors, including a highly customized "integrated" curriculum that won't transfer to any other school's curriculum.

This program has unusually long lecture days in N2 and N3. 6 hours per day on average, 3 days per week, I'd estimate. And their program throughout is a variable schedule, not well-defined and consistent blocks like the colleges have each semester. You have to keep consulting your schedule to see what's on deck for today or this week. Adults with responsibilities outside of school were the most dissatisfied.

PM me if you are interested in seeing what the schedules looked like.

The class of 2012 started as perhaps 60 people, and there are 39 graduates pictured in the Class of 2012 class portrait on the Washington Health System School of Nursing Facebook page. Without making a detailed study of it, I believe there are 4 students who transferred in (either from another area RN school, or repeats who'd not succeeded in the Class of 2011.) I do not know if graduates could opt out of the class portraits or not. But if only 35 of 60 people who started finish the program, that is not a good omen.

The "new" curriculum is on their web site. They now require the college coursework to be completed before you begin the nursing. The nursing classes are still 24 months and, to me, still appear to follow their same program of teaching the "normals" then the "abnormals" then "tying it all together" at the end. It's still that integrated curriculum.

Those of you who want the traditional block curriculum and a predictable schedule, should probably be looking at colleges and not this particular school. Keep in mind that if you fail a program like this, or you find that you hate the school, most likely nothing from it will transfer elsewhere and you will have to start over at the next school.

Class of 2015. This diploma school has consistently graduated a class of about 30-35 from 2012 to current, even after curriculum changes. Buyer beware. It's sink or swim there. Starting a class of 60-65 students and finishing 30-35 including transfers-in and returning students who failed the previous year seems suspicious to me. Also, the director Gaye Falletta is retiring. She was the one that THW hired in 2011 to replace the one they fired in 2011. That may bode more changes, but they could be improvements, to be fair.