about KU nursing school?

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I am a high school student very interested in nursing. I have been researching schools and thought the KU nursing school was very impressive. I would like to be in the BSN program. Is it possible to take community college pre-reqs for two years, and apply to KU school of nursing afterwards or do you have to be enrolled at KU for the complete four years? Also has anyone who is either in the KU nursing program or has graduated from there have any positive or negetive things to say about the program?

Any information about any nursing programs in the KC area would be great. Thank You!

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery, Med/Surg-tele.

Don't have anything to add regarding KU's nursing program.....

What I really want to say is BRAVO, GOOD FOR YOU for having a clear plan at your age!!!! Stick with nursing and don't let anything get in your way!!! You will never be sorry that you got into the healthcare field - soooooo much variety!

I am your mother's age (no doubt) and just graduated from a nursing program 2 days ago...it only took me 16 years of another career to realize the limitless opportunities that nursing will give you.... and you get back just as much......

Best of luck to you!!!!!

Dawn:heartbeat:heartbeat:heartbeat:heartbeat:heartbeat

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I am a high school student very interested in nursing. I have been researching schools and thought the KU nursing school was very impressive. I would like to be in the BSN program. Is it possible to take community college pre-reqs for two years, and apply to KU school of nursing afterwards or do you have to be enrolled at KU for the complete four years? Also has anyone who is either in the KU nursing program or has graduated from there have any positive or negetive things to say about the program?

Any information about any nursing programs in the KC area would be great. Thank You!

When I attended JCCC a couple of people in my microbiology class got accepted into KU nursing program and they completed all their pre-req at JCCC. One person got accepted into St. Luke's nursing program and another got accepted into Avila's program. While completing my first clinical I met a young lady completing her last semester at KU, I asked her how was it she stated, "It is okay, every school has its plus and minus". I hope this helps. :nuke:

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What do you know about the st. lukes program?

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What do you know about the st. lukes program?

St. Luke's program you must complete the first two years at a community college before applying at their school. You can submit your paper work when you get close to completing but if you get accepted into their program and have not completed ALL pre-req you will be denied. I suggest going to their website or google St. Luke's College KC, MO and get as much information or call them they are very informative. Good Luck, you are well on your way!

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery, Med/Surg-tele.

St. Luke's program requires separate A&P, fyi...

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Specializes in Mostly: Occup Health; ER; Informatics.

KU's program is good, and is very much into preparing future nurse leaders. ..which is the only problem I had with it. Very little time actually teaching or practicing entry-level nursing tasks...despite their huge, high-tech "nursing lab". It did not prepare me to be an entry-level nurse, but has helped in climbing the ladder.

They accept community college prerequisite courses. I would urge you to consider the JCCC ADN and St. Lukes' BSN programs too. I researched and was accepted to all three, but went to KU for my own reasons.

Good luck with your future!

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I just graduated from KU's nursing program this May. I went to JCCC my first 2 years (which I think was the best way to go) I saved so much money on tutition, books, living expenses (cause I was able to live at home) that I was able to save up enough to not have to take out a single penny of financial aide. Which might not seem like a big deal but everyone girl I knew is coming out of school has tens of thosands of dollars in school loans, which takes years and years to pay off. I work with nurses who have been out of school for 10 years that are still paying off their loans and are not even close to paying them off yet. KU has one of the best practicum experience in the city. You will spend 320 hours your final semester working along side one nurse in an area that interests you after graduation. This is the longest practicum in the city. Some schools only do 24 hours!! It really helped prepare me to put everything I had learned into practice. And from my experences so far working as a GN I have heard how much more prepared I am than other GN from other schools. It just shows it your confidence of your own abilities. Good luck with KU!

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Specializes in RNC-MNN, L&D/Postpartum/AP/PACU, CLC.

As others have said, yes, it is certainly possible to do all prereqs at a community college. Be warned however that their admissions process is based almost entirely on GPA. The average GPA of students accepted last year was over 3.7 and the lowest GPA of anyone accepted was about a 3.5 or 3.6.

While there are other considerations and they do read all of the essays, they will tell you at orientation that they are secondary. They rank everyone by GPA and then take the top 80 (or however many slots they have now). If there is a tie or something "off" in somone's background who is in the top 80, then they start looking at other things to distinguish between applicants.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I have heard a lot of positive things about St. Lukes. I graduated from KU. I really didn't like it. It's the luck of the draw as far as what clinical instructor you get and a lot of the instructors look good on paper but are horrible in person (probably why they got into academia in the first place). Some of my friends had med/surg clinical together and were literally called an "idiot" in front a pt. For a school who claims superiority and professionalism a lot of the professors aren't. There is a lot of favoritism. And I agree with one of the previous posts that KU prepares one more for administration and politics rather than entry level skills. I currently have a 4.0 GPA in grad school because I learned really good research and bs'ing skills from KU :)

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I heard KU had a new BSN-PhD program, but, after reading the prior post about students being called "idiot" in front of patients,,,I'm reconsidering.

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Specializes in N/A.

sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdff!! :nuke:

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