Re: UT Arlington
Hey there..I am a UTASN grad. It is a GREAT school. Your clinical skills will only be lacking if YOU choose not to pursue opportunities and electives. Not to start a debate, but the TCC nurses (the ones I encountered IRL and not here) who said UTA skills were lacking are the same ones who "rotated through" the ICU for two clinical days while we spent 8 weeks/2 full days a week in the transplant/Cardiac ICU at big Baylor.
I was DEFINITELY prepared to go right into my CCU job after graduation. Yes, I can say my experience with postop drains and colostomies was a little lacking (can't find the roll eyes icon to insert here) but I could pull an arterial sheath, figure out physio changes from the Swan Ganz and wean a patient off the vent like no one else. But enough about that.
They have GREAT electives (like a whole summer of ER/Trauma where you clock about 300 clinical hours in the ER or alternatively, a whole summer in the NICU) that go even further in hands on experience. So like I said, if you graduate from there without clinical skills, is an individual choice and not the university's problem.
A BSN doesn't take much longer than an ADN and you are just as prepared. I have found the school to be flexible in their offerings, have great internet classes and wonderful clinical sites and instructors.
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As far as TCC is concerned, no debate needed. We are all biased when it comes to the school we went to/go to. I agree with what you said, your clinical experience is definitely what you make of it, it doesn't matter where you go to school.
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