Weekend Degree Program - St. Joseph's (Syracuse, NY)

[SirJohnny]

All:

Since I work full-time (days) as a computer-programmer and want to become a nurse (tired of being in a box/cubicle all day), I am looking to weekend nursing programs.

I came across the Weekend Degree Program at St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, NY.

Some questions:

- Has anyone on this board attended this school? If so, what were / are your opinions?

- Also, if anyone here knows of any other weekend nursing degree programs, can you provide info/links?

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I currently live in Evansville, IN and this is the ONLY school that I have found that offers clinicals on the weekends. I checked into flights/etc and they are within my budget,

Nursing is a career I want to pursue (not for the $$) but to actually get out of the office cubicle environment and being able to talk with folks - and of course, helping them.

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So, if anyone out there has experience with this school, or just wants to talk about nursing in general - advice, opinions, etc. Feel free to either respond here or at [email protected]

Thanks.

John Coxey

[oneLoneNurse]

Interesting, very interesting. I found the first thing I ever really want to learn back in 1982 learning programming at the University of Calgary. Fall of 1982 I took the money and ran to nursing school. The province gave me a deal I could not refuse!! Anyway, always swore I would go back to programming. I am now working for a major hospital as a programmer. I love the combination of nursing and programming. Nursing has been good to me as well as giving me a good livelihood and teaching me medical stuff it has taught me patience, humility and about prejudice( I'm a male nurse ). I don't sit at my cubicle desk all the time. There are meetings and phone calls from clients where we really do make a difference. I get tremendous satisfaction from filling client requests. I worked in the pharm industry as a SAS programmer for a couple of years, but didn't enjoy it as much because of the lack of client contact. Anyway, I thought this thread was a good place to verbalize the combination of programming/nursing which is so dynamic in todays' world and which I am excited about and hey its early Monday morning.