Apollo College RN bridge program

You are correct on Apollo... The Boise program is in the candidate phase of NLN accreditation for their Practical nurse offerings only and are not listed as an accredited school of nursing for any of their programs (www.nlnac.org), although in Arizona they are in the process for associates RN. CCNE accreditation would not apply as that is for BS and Graduate schools. Apollo is an accredited technical school, approved by the Idaho Board of Nursing for the Associates program (www.ibn.idaho.gov/publications.htm schools of nursing).

Just FYI on Excelsior, many states, Idaho included are looking to no longer allow graduates of the Excelsior program become licensed RN's. They have been talking about this for a while.... who knows if or when it will happen.

I don't mean to rain on your parade... but it would be terrible to do all the work and pay all the loads of money to not be allowed to become licensed in this state... I would suggest contacting the Board of Nursing to see when they plan on no longer accepting Excelsior, and if it's within your timeline, getting it done before??? Or apply to BSU, ISU, CWI, CSI though that doesn't help your drive....

best wishes to you in your nursing career...

I have a hard time w/Excelsior as well as I'm not comfortable w/what I know about their CPNE's. The bottom line is that I'm not willing to pay 19,000 for an associates degree, from ANYWHERE, to include Apollo.

I worked for a title iv "technical school" which is a nice way to say "proprietary school" which is a nice way to say "privately run business just like a store in the mall or anywhere else that has a product to push to make money." LOL. I'M VERY VERY wary of these places. I've heard nice things about Apollo, but I can't align myself w/any proprietary school after what I saw in my years in financial aid at that place.

They all have a very similar business model that just doesn't sit well with me. I'm not saying Apollo is bad, how could I? I know very little about it. But I know enough that I'm not desperate enough *yet* haha to pay 19k for an associates degree, that's just, not a sound financial decision for my life.