Any St. lawrence memorial/regis college.. nurses?

Ultra Violet · Aug 19, 2008

Brookejean - I graduated from LM/RC evening/weekend program in December 07. Most weeks we had classes on two evenings (5 or 5:30 pm to 9:30 or 10 pm). Then every other weekend clinicals which involved research Friday night 5 - 9 pm or so and full day Saturday/Sunday starting at 6 or 7 am. In my opinion, it is a very rigorous program. It can be very stressful. If you work full-time, plan to take time off around exams. It is a great program. The instructors are very good. There will be labs that you have to fit in on your own time as well to pass off on skills especially in the first and second nursing class. Let me know if I can try to answer a ? for you. Best of luck to you!

TrailBlazerRN · Aug 20, 2008

I realize this thread is old but I thought I'd post for future reader's sake. Regis college has a really great nursing program, but theres one catch. When you apply, you'll be accepted as a 'prenursing major', which means that youre technically not in the program. After the first semester of your sophmore year, you'll find out if you were accepted into the nursing program. If you weren't accepted, you're basically stranded into changing your major or transferring to somewhere else the following year. I know all this because my girlfriend is going to be a sophmore there.

My aunt also graduated from there with her MSN.

Selene006, BSN, LPN · Aug 20, 2008

Jerlick, I am so happy that you replied to this thread with that information. I didn't know that their program was run that way.

watersamy · May 4, 2009

I realize this thread is old but I thought I'd post for future reader's sake. Regis college has a really great nursing program, but theres one catch. When you apply, you'll be accepted as a 'prenursing major', which means that youre technically not in the program. After the first semester of your sophmore year, you'll find out if you were accepted into the nursing program. If you weren't accepted, you're basically stranded into changing your major or transferring to somewhere else the following year. I know all this because my girlfriend is going to be a sophmore there.
My aunt also graduated from there with her MSN.

Actually the Regis College BSN program isn't what its cracked up to be - they only had a 61% NCLEX pass rate in 2007 and a 66% pass rate in 2008 - actually they have the lowest in the state http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Researcher&L2=Physical+Health+and+Treatment&L3=Nursing+Statistics&L4=National+Council+Licensure+Examinations+(NCLEX)+by+School&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=dph_quality_boards_nursing_r_nclex_07_perform_summary&csid=Eeohhs2. Its all their other nursing programs that are TERRIFIC. I spend the past 2 1/2 years in the Regis BSN program and couldn't continue because of 78 average in one of the nursing classes. I have a 3.4 GPA and was dropped from the program. Actually, half the nursing program students got dropped this past December and were encouraged to changed their major. I guess they keep the best-of-the best and even those can't pass the NCLEX the first time around. I wished I had gone to another school for my BSN. There are many other nursing programs that have better pass rates in Massachustts.

For me, at least, It was such a waste of money. Wish I had gone elsewhere. Don't get me wrong, its a great school, but If I was just starting out I would choose a school whose expectations for nursing were a little more realistic.