Loewenberg Nursing School

not sure about lowenberg - but try baptist college. there are no prereqs to take. once you're accepted into the program, you take your prereqs before starting clinicals. you don't have to apply to the actual nursing program once prereqs are done. it's about a 3-4 year program for a bsn.

With Baptist the NLN score doesn't even apply. They have their own pre-entrance exam, the HOBET. It isn't that hard to pass.

I'm currently a student at Baptist and I also made a high score on the NLN to get into Southwest, but decided on a BSN instead of an AAS.

Loewenberg requires that you have most of your general education requirements finished, as well as the Pre-requisites to the nursing program (general math, English, microbiology, A&P I&II, psychology, and nutrition). Statistics (a BSN requirement) can be taken during the program. If you have additional gen ed requirements (like an extra history class), they can be taken during summers. The actual nursing curriculum is 5 semester long (it is longer because there are classes that you don't take with an ADN program), and can be completed in 2-years if you take summer classes. Once you start the nursing portion of the degree you are in clinicals right away and will be in clinicals every semester until graduation. There is no entrance exam to be accepted into the nursing school.

Go to the following link ( http://nursing.memphis.edu/bsn.htm), click on "Program of Courses" in the Prospective BSN Students box, and it should open up a word document with the course of study. If you have completed all the courses that are in the first 3 semesters, then you have completed the prerequisites and are pretty much ready to apply for the nursing program. If you have completed all the necessary pre-req's, I would advise that you apply soon because I think the spring deadline is approaching (October 1).
http://nursing.memphis.edu/pub1/Unde...pp20082009.pdf

Good luck, and if you have anymore specific questions please feel free to PM me!!

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that my friend was just accepted into Baptist nursing school. I don't think she had to retake many classes (if any), but they have more pre-req's than Memphis (like religion classes, etc). So she still has 1-2 more semesters of classes (even after completing pre-req's and having a previous degree) before she will start nursing courses. Plus, you do not start clinicals until you have completed all your pre-req's (as with Memphis). Hope that helps!

Good luck and let us know how things turn out!

to all readers, i am sure by now that some of you have made a choice between a two year or four year nursing school, but some of the things that a person should consider when chosing which one is best for them is your surrounding lifestyle. for example i have two children in school and sick parents so i felt that if i tried to do four years, then life would probably take a toll on me and i may not be able to complete it in an ample amount of time. so i (for me) chose two years assoc of nursing with hopefully being able to do a fast track for bsn-rn. and as i thought life is hard and time waits on no one. so just think long and hard about your situation. another thing when chosing schools keep in mind that most schools now have an exit exam called the HESI, this test is hard and schools have a standard for passing ex. STCC is 950 and BAPTIST is 900. the key is that at STCC you can take it as many times as needed until you have passed (the longest i think was two years after the person graduated to get 950), but at Baptist you only have three times i think to take it and it counts for ONE FAILURE IF YOU DON'T PASS AFTER THE THIRD TIME==so think if you already have ONE FAILURE in a class, then that HESI will count for TWO and YOU ARE OUT OF THE PROGRAM, PASSING HESI is a requirement BEFORE you can take boards. SO THINK ABOUT ALL OPTIONS WHEN APPLYING FOR SCHOOLS.

As far as I know Memphis does not have an exit exam. I guess they figure you've gone through enough!