aggiexpooh

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1. Chamberlain College of Nursing - Addison

   aggiexpooh replied to icechick's topic in Chamberlain College

   The classes at this school are really a lot of work, I would agree to cut down ur hours to part time if you are currently full time. I currently only work one 12 hr shift a week and really needed the time esp. for the patho/fundamentals bundle and fo...

2. Patient Care And Customer Service Are Not The Same!

   aggiexpooh replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

   I feel that as nursing students we are taught this everytime at clinical! That literally we are going to b bad future nurses because we did not pack up a patient's bag before they discharge or changed thier tv channels for them when they got bored......

3. Do men and women go into nursing for different reasons?

   aggiexpooh replied to European's topic in Men

   For me, I wanted to do nursing because it is a job that I can see myself waking up to and wanting to go to work and not dreading every minute of the day and counting down till I go home. I enjoy doing IVs, talking to patients, and even doing cath's l...

4. Chamberlain College of Nursing - Addison

   aggiexpooh replied to icechick's topic in Chamberlain College

   Just pick up a basic chemistry book at high school level and study from that, u can prob find one in the library. If theres a HESI book out there with a chem section, then even better!

5. Chamberlain College of Nursing

   aggiexpooh replied to KAC123's topic in Chamberlain College

   they go by ur ACT scores and you take your HESI at the school and they get a percentage and use it toward your acceptance. They usually like students to be at 85% and higher.

6. Chamberlain College of Nursing

   aggiexpooh replied to KAC123's topic in Chamberlain College

   It depends on how many transfer credits you have, if every single pre req transfers over then you have about 5 semesters which is a year and a half including summers and if tuition is about $25,000 a year then just do the math

7. Anyone REJECTED from Chamberlain (Addison)?

   aggiexpooh replied to vladak86's topic in Illinois

   Yes I did and I have one year left till graduation :)

8. Chamberlain College of Nursing - Addison

   aggiexpooh replied to icechick's topic in Chamberlain College

   This school is fully accredited and students that have graduated from here end up working in some top notch hospitals like Northwestern and Central Dupage. We get a lot of top notch clinical sites as well. Yes, the tuition is expensive, but so are t...

9. Chamberlain College of Nursing

   aggiexpooh replied to KAC123's topic in Chamberlain College

   For the tuition comment, my parents covered the last year out of pocket. I did not get any financial aid at all not even grants so everything was out of pocket. I may need to tho however take a few student loans out for my last year here but they wil...

10. Chamberlain College of Nursing

    aggiexpooh replied to KAC123's topic in Chamberlain College

    I am also a student at the Addison campus in IL. And yes, just like a user said before, ALL COLLEGES ARE FOR PROFIT! Chamberlain costs about the same price as the BSN universities in the Chicagoland area so the price wasn't such a huge shock cause we...

11. Chamberlain College of Nursing - Addison

    aggiexpooh replied to icechick's topic in Chamberlain College

    The addison campus is very busy, we have over 300 students in our program! so the whole chamberlain team is working to get everyone where they need to be and ready for clinicals and graduation. i hope u all choose the addison campus b/c we have been ...

12. Chamberlain College of Nursing - Addison

    aggiexpooh replied to icechick's topic in Chamberlain College

    Basic bio, anatomy, and chemistry...pretty much all of the basics in each

13. Chamberlain College of Nursing - Addison

    aggiexpooh replied to icechick's topic in Chamberlain College

    For the math areas, there are LOTS of conversions pretty much 75% of the math sections. It ranges from army time to basic time, to chemistry like conversions where you need to find liters to milliliters and so forth.

14. Chamberlain College of Nursing - Addison

    aggiexpooh replied to icechick's topic in Chamberlain College

    It is 8,000 per semester, and I get it, it is a lot of money but so are all BSN nursing schools. Find one in the Chicagoland area that is cheaper than $24,000 a yr and u get UIC which only excepts 9% of applications.

15. Chamberlain College of Nursing - Addison

    aggiexpooh replied to icechick's topic in Chamberlain College

    Yes you can knocked off 2 years, you have to make sure your classes comply. I knocked off a year and a half with my transfer credits and have friends in my classes that needed only nursing classes to go..u have to make sure they comply with the schoo...