Any word-- Hampton University??

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Hello all. I have been accepted at Hampton Univ.'s nursing program. I already have a BS and hope to complete the nursing courses I need to get the BSN. Hopefully I can do that in 2 years or less... already have a lot of the prereqs.

Has anyone gone there?? What is your preception of the school? How did you like it, dislike it??

:monkeydance: Thank you! Epona

Weird, I haven't received an email yet. I am not working at the moment. I am a student as Arizona State and will graduate next month with a bachelor's.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Women's Health, Tele, Ortho.

Oh ok, are you online at Arizona or there now? What's your major? Im almost there, yeah!

Online. I am finishing a degree that I started right out of high school and am finally finishing! We are from AZ but moved here because of the military.

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
Oh ok, are you online at Arizona or there now? What's your major? Im almost there, yeah!

You are there. Congrats. :) You can use the PM system now!

Specializes in Med/Surg, Women's Health, Tele, Ortho.

Thanks LunahRN! I am soooo excited.

Can you try to send the email as a private message now? :) Not sure why I didn't get it in my normal email...

Specializes in Med/Surg, Women's Health, Tele, Ortho.

Just sent it.

Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

nicoled80........Congrats on reaching the 15 post mark. LOL

If you or anyone else is having trouble emailing or pm-ing, you can post in the Admin Help Desk where the Administrators will be happy to help you.

Carry on, and good luck to all!!!

sorry, i would not recommend hu (main campus or the college of virginia beach) to my worst enemy!!! i attended hu and graduated with a 3.7 gpa and have been working as an icu nurse in another state for several years now...

please, please, please access the virginia board of nursing/virginia department of health professions website: http://www.dhp.state.va.us/nursing/nursing_edprogs.htm

review the current year nclex passing ratios as well as previous years. hu ratio was only 46-77.5% from 2004-2008!!! hint-hint: disregard an nclex passing ratio of 100% with only 5 or 6 students testing!!! ask yourself...what happened to the rest of the graduating class (there are usually 25-30+ students each semester) ??? why haven't they tested yet!!!???

the goal is to attend a school that has a consistent 85+% passing ratio on nclex. even better attend schools with 90-100% passing ratios.

also ask yourself:

*** do you want to attend the highest priced school in the area with such low nclex passing ratios!!! i don't think you do.

*** how many clincial hours does hu offer each semester? what do these clinical hours consist of? let me tell you...because hu cannot keep clinical instructors on their payroll (because the instructors do not get paid on time; so they quit and never return!!!), the students end up suffering. students spend way to much time in the computer lab on clinical days because there are too many students not enough clincial instructors... is this how you want to spend your money??? hu won't admit to this but they will give students computer lab time in place of actual hospital clinical hours in order to meet the va state nursing board requirements for clinical hours...

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let me also add...don't expect most people (professors and past students) to be completely honest about hus nursing program--because they will not. instructors/professors need their jobs! past students need references if they decide to further their education. current students don't want to be mistreated by instructors while they still attend. no one wants any "negative" marks associated with their name so they will not be completely honest when it comes to discussing their nursing program.

it is not necessary for me to knock down hu's program. i will let the nclex passing ratios located on the virginia dept. of health professions website speak for themselves; but only you can make the determination as to where you spend money on a nursing program. just keep in mind. nursing is not a field that you can just venture into. if you attend a nursing program and after one or two semesters decide that the school "is not for you" you cannot transfer core nursing courses to another school. you can only transfer your prerequisites. think carefully about the school you attend and make sure it is the school you intend to remain with--for the long haul.

whatever school you attend....good luck! and enjoy your new career as an rn!!

to smn2009: oh my goodness.... i am a prospective mother with a daughter who wants to go to hampton for nursing... and i have not put down a deposit yet. ohh.. now my head is spinning. thank you for the information. i would love to speak with you directly but i just joined so i guess i can't send a private message.

Just make a quick 15 posts and then you will have access to private messages. :)

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

However, one-word posts to increase post count isn't kosher, either ... please try to say something of substance. :D

Specializes in Psychiatric Nurse.

positivenyone:

if you don't have the answers to these few questions...hold on to your deposit!!!!....:rolleyes: especially if you have not: toured the nursing department (...at the virginia beach campus, look at their lab equipment/mannequins--broken, lacking, with no intention of being fixed), ask how often the lab is used for instruction; review the clinical rotations for this semester (not their printed curriculum that is located online; but their actual clincial rotation for the current semester), inquire about the number of students in each clinical rotation and the hours allotted for each on a clinical day--at the medical facility (...not in the computer lab...); inquire about the expected clinicals for next semester--discuss where students will be participating in their clinical rotation ("organized" schools have their clinical rotations determined each summer for the entire year), determine if the university has fixed their financial aid issues...

there are many questions for you to ask at hu (or any school for that matter) before you enroll.

also, have you checked the past 4-5 semesters of nclex results on the virginia dept. of health professions website (disregard results/scores for only 6-10 students when there are 35+ in a class!) ???? if you haven't...you need to. :idea: :sniff: remember you are looking for a nursing program with "consistent" good/better than average results on nclex...

hope to communicate with you soon! :)

take care....

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