ABSN program survey question

[CRNA2BKY]

I'm currently in an ABSN program. This is the 3rd ABSN class the university has had. I don't think the teachers have the ABSN experience to taylor their class towards the ABSN students. All of our classes are held in 8-week block formats. An entire semester of classes is completed in 8-weeks.

Here's my problem with the program, and I want to know if all programs are like this, or if other programs deal with the problem better. Ok, here's the situation:

All of us ABSN students have previous bachelors degrees, and many of us have been in the "real world" working in a career for some time. Now, we want to change careers, and we enter the ABSN program.

I believe that the program is so fast that the teachers should give us the material for us to learn, and we can learn it. They do that, but in addition, they give us lots of busy work to do, such as write lots of papers. Now, for the traditional BSN students, I feel that giving them some busy work is ok, because they've never been in college before, and need to "pay their dues", so to speak. They have lots of time to do the busy work and do well in school.

Us ABSN students have been through college before, and giving us this busy work doesn't benefit us in any way. It is counter-productive because we have less time to study for more important things, such as meds and all the NCLEX stuff we are learning.

I feel like maybe in other ABSN programs, the teachers understand this and wouldn't give as much busy work to do. All this busy work really is frustrating to all of us, and it really isn't necessary.

Question: does your ABSN program have as much busy-work as the normal BSN student, or do they cut out some of this bull-sh*t work to concentrate on more important things to learn.

Any thoughts?

[sam027000]

My accelerated program sounds the same as yours and we had the same complaints.

We were told by the administration that even though we all have prior degrees that we still have to follow the exact same curriculum as the traditional students b/c that curriculum is what has been approved by the accrediting board for nursing schools.

The schools all have very firm guidelines as to what must be covered, so once they get a curriculum approved it's safer for them to not risk losing the accredidation by having all students in every program (traditional, accelerated, RN to BSN, LPN to BSN, 2nd degree traditional, etc) follow the same plan.

Once I looked at it from that perspective I understood where they were coming from, although I still dreaded doing all of those papers on things like history of nursing, nursing pioneers, etc.

:)

[CRNA2BKY]

My accelerated program sounds the same as yours and we had the same complaints.

We were told by the administration that even though we all have prior degrees that we still have to follow the exact same curriculum as the traditional students b/c that curriculum is what has been approved by the accrediting board for nursing schools.

The schools all have very firm guidelines as to what must be covered, so once they get a curriculum approved it's safer for them to not risk losing the accredidation by having all students in every program (traditional, accelerated, RN to BSN, LPN to BSN, 2nd degree traditional, etc) follow the same plan.

Once I looked at it from that perspective I understood where they were coming from, although I still dreaded doing all of those papers on things like history of nursing, nursing pioneers, etc.

:)

Looking at it from this point, I can see the schools perspective. Thanks for the input. That is why I like this website...because I can freely ask questions and get different opinions. I am always trying to learn new things, and this a perspective I hadn't thought about. Thanks for your input Sam

[sam027000]

:) Glad to help! :)