[Dachsielover]

Has anyone done the online RN to BSN through the Chamberlain College of Nursing? The program sounds really great, but I just wanted to get the opinion of someone who's tried it thanks!

[P_RN]

Is that the one that used to be called Deaconess? There are many threads here about this school. I'm not familiar with it however.

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[whiskeygirl]

Hi Dachsei-
Good for you for doing your research before commiting!
I will tell you that the school has/had a exemplory reputation for turning out wonderful nurses in it's brick and morter program back about 14 years ago. However, I feel that it is not the case now.
I went there for my LPN to RN when the school had a different name, the same as the hospital it was in. There have been many issues that appear to never have been corrected sort of a Dean leaving. I chose that school because of their prior reputation and more current info was not available to me.
Many students have had issues with finding placement for clinicals but I think that many were being too picky about where they did their clinicals. I was very open to suggestion, willing to speak with anyone that would share their knowledge/contacts with me. This and my ability to network is how I was able to land successful clinicals.
I had some incredible instructors that really understood what it took to be a effective online instructor. But 3 instructors out of 15+ classes is a poor average for as few students as we had in our class. The Psych instructor was a piece of work!!!!!
Their NCLEX pass scores are terrible and the school has been on the fringe of losing their accredidation for many years. I found out (literally) 5 min before I was leaving to take the NCLEX-RN that the previous year's score were about 43% but because I prepared, took a national review course and contacted Suzanne (from this site)- I passed on the first try. I have followed up with some of my classmates over the years, 2 of 11 took the nclex several times and failed- I think they finally gave up.
Overall, I think the school is FAR TOO EXPENSIVE for the education!!!!!!!! As a widowed mother who was told by the school that they would discount tuition then I could get a loan for the rest, my tally was $15k for 18 months of education.
In the past, I wrote a long msg relating my experiences with the school and was mailed a nasty gram basically telling me to keep my opinions to myself. This msg as well as the last are PURELY my experiences. The above mearly outlines the cherry on top of the time I spent there. I have pages and pages of coresponce and journaling related to my education wtih them. I have learned 2 things: Don't trust what anyone says to you and ALWAYS get it in writing!
In the end I chose another school to finish my BSN at. They are online as well and a great school with a solid reputation and much less expensive. Please e-mail me if you would liek to chat further.
Good luck to you! The effort is worth it.

[mcknis]

I have also looked into the RN-BSN with Chamberlain. I will say that it looks pretty from ads on allnurses.com and other websites. You may want to look into this a little further. I was intrigued at first that there was not a clinical component to their program, but after looking at the cost, I was very disappointed. $520/cr hr seemed way too steep for my wallet, but none the less I continued researching it. After contacting several state boards, including mine, I found that in order to be a BSN program with accreditation, a clinical component was required! That immediately sent me looking for other colleges to contact.