I'm researching the possibility of applying to an accelerated BSN program in the future, and I have a question for graduates of accelerated programs who are now working as Nurses:
Do you feel that you were adequately prepared for your job? (I know many new grads, regardless of how they obtained their BSN, feel unprepared, but I mean in terms of comparing yourselves perhaps to co-workers who got their BSN in the traditional manner.) Do you feel that you actually had time for the material from school to sink in because you were forced to learn it in such a short amount of time? Or maybe did you have an easier time with, say, the NCLEX because the information was still more fresh in your mind?
The reason I'm asking this is because I wonder if the accelerated programs are as good (or as bad ) as the traditional programs in preparing you for the real world.
) as the traditional programs in preparing you for the real world.