[name2be]

Hi! We have a debate in our school which is entitled "should mushroom nursing schools be abolished or not?"

A mushroom Nursing school is a low-standard nursing schools that produces low-quality or not-really-that-trained nurses.

Please reply with your comments.
I really want to hear them.

*I'm for ANTI-abolishment

[fgoff]

I do not know about abolishing these programs base on critria "low-quality or not-really-that-trained nurses" who established the scale of comparison? What is reveiwed. Nclex pass rate, employment rates, continued nursing education of graduates. Surveys of current & pass empler of graduates.......
I also wonder how thses programs stay open. If a school can not train its students to meet the minium requirment of passing the board, the BON would step in. At least in Va & NC where I have taught they do.

Also, why would students continue to apply to a program that could not show success with high Nclex pass rates??

Sorry! I guess I miss the intent of the question.

[VivaLasViejas]

Why ever would you NOT want to close schools that turn out poorly prepared nurses???

[Mulan]

You may have those types of schools in the Philippines, we don't have them here in the United States.

[Mulan]

Why would you be ANTI-abolishment? Are you attending or planning to attend one of those schools? Maybe it's the only type of school some people can get into.

[nanay]

Im for the abolishment of nursing schools that are below standards.

* patient's safety
* maintain quality care
* maintain nursing professional standards

[HeartsOpenWide]

Originally Posted by nanay

Im for the abolishment of nursing schools that are below standards.

* patient's safety
* maintain quality care
* maintain nursing professional standards

I am also thinking what it would be like to have to WORK WITH these kind of people. I have worked with poorly trained people in the past and I ended up picking up the slack...

Nursing has not become the most trusted profession buy turning out low standards...we have worked a long hard time (and still are) to be considered professionals. These schools would only set us back wards. IMO

[name2be]

Originally Posted by Mulan

Why would you be ANTI-abolishment? Are you attending or planning to attend one of those schools? Maybe it's the only type of school some people can get into.

We were assigned to do a debate regarding its pro's and con's and I was chosen to be a part of the ANTI- group.

[P_RN]

No offense but I hope you lose the debate. There's no excuse to maintain substandard ANYTHING. I'd be in favor of promoting a betterment of the nursing schools before abolishment. But... they all should be required to meet the highest standards or they shouldn't be in business in the first place.

[CHATSDALE]

i heard a pre-med student say that if she couldn't get accepted into a medical program here is usa she could always get in a program in caribbean

i don't know if these are dipolma mills or not kinda scary